“A freedom that has not been conquered is not a freedom
” wrote Maurice Béjart in his
Letters to a Young Dancer
.
The same goes today for these emancipations dearly won but now undermined by our contemporary golden calves, these cherished figures of authoritarianism that are surveillance, distrust of others, hygiene or nationalism.
Possessed like Béjart and all lovers of freedom by what is now agreed to call the "essentiality" of our values and the importance of protecting them, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot offers us with his latest very beautiful novel,
Finding Refuge
(Gallimard), an enlightening and frenzied dance mixing in one and the same slender movement the sensual and the detestable, the witty and the tragic, the tender and the cynical.
Read also
Finding refuge
, by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot: this Greece where we were born
In this breathless and cleverly put together fiction, where suspense is one with a deified nature to better point out, by contrast, the dark resignations of our time, the words of Christophe Ono-dit-Biot...
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 81% left to discover.
Cultivating your freedom is cultivating your curiosity.
Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Login