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The porcelain warrior, by Mathias Malzieu: the mechanics of dreams

2022-01-05T15:26:30.584Z


CRITICAL - The author, leader of the Dionysos group, tells the story of his father's childhood, hidden on a farm in 1944. An intimate and dreamlike novel.


There are wooden boxes, hardly bigger than shoe boxes, which hold more memories than others.

That of the Malzieu family contains pages of stories.

Super-8 film reels, a gold and blue trawler, a photo album and two letters from WWII.

Each time Mathias Malzieu's father immerses himself in it, his childhood rises to the surface and he becomes silent.

One day, however, he decides to break this silence and tell his son everything.

This intimate and moving story is

The Porcelain Warrior

.

The author and leader of the Dionysos group recounts the romantic life of this man who was a little boy in June 1944.

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Montpellier, villa Yvette, La Pompignane.

This June 4, Mainou no longer has a mother.

“You died that night

,” writes the 9-year-old from the pen of Mathias Malzieu.

The boy surely does not know Camus, but he mimics the same absurdity of life after a death, the fear and anger, the revolt of a man in the face of ...

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Source: lefigaro

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