Pascal Herlem's sixth novel will not be in the hands of readers.
Rare enough to be underlined, the 17th chamber of the Paris court rendered its decision on August 9, prohibiting Editions Bouquins, which publishes the work, "from disseminating, marketing and promoting the novel".
And to provide the same restriction for all rights holders.
And this "subject to a penalty for failure noted from the service of this order, the penalty running over a period of three months".
In other words, even the media are prohibited from publishing the slightest chronicle, under penalty of inflicting on the publisher 500 euros for the offense.
Called “Fatum”, the book is a continuation of the work begun in 2015 by Pascal Herlem, around incestuous relationships in his family.
Relations which he had already approached in the novel Françoise, a title which evoked his sister.
An "abuse of freedom of expression and creation"
In his latest book, the psychoanalyst retraces the life of his older brother, Didier, who is now deceased, in particular relating "facts of sexual touching of which he was the victim of his older sister during his childhood", according to the summary order of the Paris court revealed by the ActuaLitté site.
“The facts of sexual touching of which Didier Herlem was the victim on the part of his older sister, Françoise Herlem, during her childhood, the traumatic result of these touches on her childhood, other sexual attacks, are recounted. assaults and / or rapes of which he would have been the victim thereafter between his childhood and his adolescence ”, notes the judgment.
The author's brother's ex-wife and her children have taken legal action, considering that the book infringed their privacy.
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According to the judges, "it follows that entire sections of the private and family life (of the author's brother) and of the applicants, clearly identifiable, are mentioned in the smallest details" and "that such a story is likely to undermine ”his private and family life.
The disclosure of such details would create "irreparable damage", adds the ordinance, according to which the work "Fatum" constitutes an "abuse of freedom of expression and creation".
