Folie entre mes doigts
Malgré la maladie, les bizarreries et les médicaments, Alice, avec sa jeunesse et sa vivacité, s’attire la sympathie des autres malades. Elle tisse notamment des liens d’amitié intergénérationnels avec un groupe de femmes très attachantes : toutes ont des histoires particulières, à la fois banales et violentes. À leur contact, Alice prend peu à peu conscience de ses propres maux, et se réapproprie ainsi sa propre histoire, son intimité et son corps meurtris.
Dans ce premier roman porté par une langue rauque et parfois crue, Alice Botelho porte un regard frontal et sans concession sur la santé mentale.
- Bleue
- Paru le 21/08/2025
- Genre : Littérature française
- 168 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715266704
- ISBN : 9782715266704
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Presentation
Alice is twenty years old when she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic. For her, it’s a new and shattering experience, but other patients have been here for a long time. In this microcosm, affinities are born. Despite the illness, the quirks and the drugs, Alice’s youth and vivacity win her the sympathy of the other patients. In particular, she forges intergenerational friendships with a group of very endearing women. They all have their own unique story, at once banal and violent. Through their contact, Alice gradually becomes aware of her own ailments, and reclaims her own history, her body and her wounded intimacy.
In this first novel, through a raucous and sometimes raw language, Alice Botelho takes an uncompromising, hard-hitting look at mental health.
Alice Botelho is 25 and lives in Switzerland.
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