Alexandre Jardin's last novel,
La Plus-que-Vere
, was published by Éditions Albin Michel in 2021.
Real madness starts when you normalize it.
As a teenager, I gradually realized that my family practiced high dementia in an honorable, cheeky, artistized version that was very popular.
My furiously improbable parents loved more than reason, the children being asked to survive.
So I knew very early on that adults were demented, unreliable, virtuosos of inconsistency and delirious.
And that they meticulously cultivated the art of normalizing madness by making it honorable.
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But I had not yet understood that my family's cringe could be overcome by a "normal" government of appearance, of prodigious inventiveness.
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