Les passantes
Montpellier. Madeleine, Évelyne, Lilas, Léonor et Joseph sont infirmiers dans un cabinet médical. Parmi leurs patients, beaucoup de personnes âgées à qui ils prodiguent des soins, bien sûr, mais apportent surtout un peu de chaleur humaine. Ils se relaient auprès d’eux, créant un périmètre de protection. Parfois, il en faudrait peu pour qu’ils se laissent submerger. S’oublier et se perdre eux-mêmes, et ce serait alors tout un édifice fragile d’aide et d’assistance qui risquerait de vaciller…
Dans ce roman bouleversant, Michèle Gazier rend un hommage délicat à ces femmes qui sont des passantes des temps modernes, aux avant-postes de la solidarité et de l’altruisme.
- Bleue
- Paru le 03/09/2020
- Genre : Littérature française
- 176 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715254473
- ISBN : 9782715254473
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Montpellier. Madeleine, Evelyne, Lilas, Leonor and Joseph are nurses in a doctor’s office where their rounds are full. Among their patients are a majority of elderly people who are often isolated. They give them care, of course, but above all they bring them a little human warmth. They surround them, taking turns with them with professionalism and kindness, creating a perimeter of medical and emotional protection. But if medical care is provided according to strict protocols, there are no rules regarding the individual relationship with patients, empathy, distance or proximity to be established. It is all a matter of perception and sensitivity. Nurses are not machines: they have their own questions, their own family problems. Sometimes, it wouldn’t take much for them to get caught up, overwhelmed by the suffering or loneliness of their patients... In this moving novel of humanity, Michèle Gazier pays a delicate tribute to these modern-day passers-by at the forefront of solidarity and altruism.
Michèle Gazier has long been a literary columnist for Télérama. She is a translator, writer and author of some thirty books - novels, short stories, literary and art essays, short anthologies. Her latest novel, Silencieuse, was published by Le Seuil in 2017.
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