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Discover Tomorrow, I'll be alive, the unpublished short story by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2022-09-30T07:12:25.878Z


EXCLUSIVE - Each week, Le Figaro Magazine publishes an unpublished novel by a writer. It's Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt*'s turn.


I never wanted the doctors to take advantage of a patient like me.

Leaning on my case, they would gorge themselves on discovering my morbidities.

Diseases, I have them all, including life - reason why I stay away from medics.

- It is very serious, dear sir.

After several discomforts, I broke my abstinence, I came to consult this Finkelstein and the troubles tumbled.

I had planned it, I expected the worst.

- Above all, I fear that you will arrive too late, he continues in a sepulchral voice.

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It's my fault!

Listening to him, I don't suffer from an illness, but from not having frequented him enough.

In two seconds, he'll argue that I made this cancer myself...

- The radio is unfortunately eloquent.

The tumor has grown.

Dirty doctor!

I pierced his game: he turns me into a patient in order to be able to behave as a caregiver.

Nope!

I did not stay away from white coats for fifty years to submit to the first Finkelstein who came

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Source: lefigaro

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