Brigitte Giroud, thirteenth winner

Brigitte Giroud, thirteenth winner

As early as August 18, we wrote in life (No. 4016) that Brigitte Giroud’s novel was “The most exciting of the literary season.” And here he was crowned by Goncourt. In the face of the political imagination of Giuliano da Empoli, Kremlin Magus, It aligns perfectly with the reality of the war in Ukraine, and is thus a more intimate novel that won (after a tough vote, 14 necessary jurors and President Didier Decoin voted to decide between the authors. At the end).

We will not indulge our happiness: live fast It is a beautiful and intense novel that deals with mourning in a very disciplined fashion, without any pathos, yet with a vibrating emotion on every page. Twenty years after the tragedy that cut her life in two (her husband’s death in a motorcycle accident), the writer brought the film back, dismantling the mechanics of the drama to the point of obsession, in a story wonderfully built on ifs: a captivating countdown.

Carefully review the past

She had already written about the event shortly after it happened (Currently, 2001). But this time, it’s back to her by questioning chance and her weird turns, in search of the truth that makes the home she bought in 1999 with her husband, Claude, a kind of instrument of fate. A building full of charm in the middle of a large park, in the heart of Lyon, desired above all by the over-excited writer and in which Claude finally did not live: after jointly signing the deed of sale, he died driven out of a defeated machine, belonging to Brigitte Giroud’s brother, which the new house garage had only housed for a few days…

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The chronic mode of “what if …” allows the writer to carefully reconsider the past, discarding every decision made before the fateful moment (and if the spouses did not get this place, if the motorcycle was not stored, and if the author did not postpone a Parisian meeting …). And in the end, our fragile life, subject to all the vicissitudes, unfolds before our very eyes.

escaping from sadness

Without forgetting a summary of the love of the nineties, their music, and the scene of Lyon, which the novelist paints with joy. I managed to make a story that survives the grief. exactly the contrary. There is more here than the sobriety and subtlety with which the author is accustomed: an absolute rectitude borne so intensely by inhabited memory that this mourning-exhausting literature becomes an irresistible hymn to the energy of life.

live fast It corresponds to an act placed under the sign of a certain humility, a more modest and subtle respect. Brigitte Giroud was born in Algeria, and was inspired by her ideas wolf for man (2017) about the life of his nurse father who refused to bear arms during the “Dirty War”. I grew up in the working-class suburbs of Lyon and never forgot this childhood shared by immigrants from North Africa or Portugal (We will be heroes2015).

The Brune Book Festival programmer has always been convinced that books can be ramps to hold, windows to the world. author brave day (2019, on the itinerary of a young gay man) believes in a politeness that allows us to stay upright. Jonkor fits him like a glove.

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to read
live fast, By Brigitte Giroud, Flamarion, €20.
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