“For years, I naively believed that the war had come out of me. And that with the help of literature and writing I had also come out of the war. I overestimated literature.”
Velibor Colic unfolds this confession throughout his admirable autobiographical novel
War and Rain
.
With its variations, its projections, its swirls of memories, its sticky memory.
The war, his 1992 war in the former Yugoslavia, he had already mentioned in
Les Bosniaques
, then in
Chronicle of the Forgotten
in 1996, and in his first book written directly in French,
Archanges
, published in 2008 by Gaïa.
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The novel opens in 2020, when Velibor Colic, now based in Brussels, suffers from a rare autoimmune disease,
Pemphigus vulgaris
, which results in painful inflammation of the mouth, and the appearance of sores and blisters on the skin.
“
Illness resembles war
,” he wrote,
“it is brutal and unjust violence.
At the moment when it reaches us, curiously…
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