Notice to Annie Ernaux: winning the Nobel Prize in Literature might not do her a world of good.
Some authors have not recovered and have sunk into depression, unable to write anything (even their shopping list in a supermarket, which Madame Ernaux has certainly already done).
In 2016, two Argentinian directors made this syndrome the plot of a jewel of cruelty, humor and emotion:
Citizen of Honor
.
The story of a Nobel-winning writer returning to his native village who wants to celebrate him and where he himself hopes to find the lost inspiration.
Instead, he will meet fellow citizens who are bitter, jealous and angry that he used their lives to tell success stories - and get rich.
The clever Mohamed Hamidi, director inspired by
The Cow
,
took up this framework in broad outline to imagine the return to his village of a French writer of Algerian origin (Kad Merad, sober and superb in this role).
His joy and emotion...
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