Meret is a nurse in a large hospital.
She has been practicing for eight years.
She has been doing the same thing for eight years.
Washcloth.
Hand washing.
Pack the suitcases.
At first, his job was to
“erase traces of the deceased in the rooms”
.
Sweep away death.
Sort abandoned belongings.
And then, over time, she became the one who assists the doctor with a new type of intervention.
“Interventions which aim to free people from their psychological disorders.
»
What is it about?
We'll never know.
But the main thing is elsewhere.
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One day, Meret meets Marianne, a 25-year-old patient like her.
The young woman suffers from
“tantrums”
.
Meret is like a mother, a friend, a sister at her bedside.
“I took away human beings’ fear.
»
His empathy borders on sacrifice.
“My time was his.
»
How did she get here?
Yael Inokai's words seem suspended.
They escape, timid, fragile.
Meret kept her secrets for fear of feeling her heart beating too hard.
She talks about the silence, the absence, her sister Bibi,
“who is gone”
…
The volatile present reassures her but Meret is full of ghosts like her neighbor who disappears at dusk.
Together, the two women regain their bodies.
They ride a bike, they buy a plant, they hold hands.
Can we repair an injured heart like a tired brain?
The night is a dream, until the day when Marianne's
“simple intervention”
does not go as planned.
There remains a tender anger, tinged with sweet sorrow, in its pages of great poetry.
A simple intervention, By Yael Inokai, translated from German by Camille Logoz, Zoé, 176 p., €19.