The family circle is the first place of self-construction, the one that determines self-esteem and makes us integrate a schema, even an implicit one.
So, how do you look to the future when you have experienced childhood trauma?
How to recreate a family when one has not had a family model oneself?
“Without even realizing it, we walk towards what makes us alive”
What better than fiction to take an interest in a social subject that resonates with so many of us?
What better than literature to provide us with answers?
This is particularly the case with the novel by Antoine Dole, hitherto known under the pseudonym Mr. Tan as the author of the successful youth comic strip,
Mortelle Adèle
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Six feet on the ground
, questions how the dramas of childhood and adolescence shape us.
One novel, two protagonists, Camille and Jérémy.
Camille has suffered the pangs of a failing mother since her childhood.
Jérémy, he, to his beloved mother who committed suicide when he was a child.
These two flayed alive love each other without managing to be happy together.
While for Camille the desire to have a child sounds like a new beginning, Jérémy, who has given himself the role of "taking care of the dead", must face questions that leave him no escape.
How do you give a child a taste for life when you yourself are struggling to find your place among the living?
In this poignant story we follow the tightrope walking of Jeremy crushed by his fear of abandonment and Camille, mistreated by her role as savior.
Little by little, by facing the chaos, they are ready again to turn to life.
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