Sans intention de nuire
Lorsque Mme Lepire, dans sa maison de retraite, apprend que l’enquête concernant un certain Monsieur Roland Dilou, mort dans d’obscures circonstances cinquante ans auparavant, a été rouverte, c’est un choc. Et de se remémorer un passé lointain, resté trouble : des parents venus d’horizons diamétralement opposés (l’un wallon, l’autre flamand), une mère bipolaire, un père effacé mais adoré et, en effet, ce fameux Roland Dilou, psychiatre, de plus en plus présent au sein même de la cellule familiale… Qui était-il et que faisait-il réellement chez eux ? Peu à peu les pièces du puzzle se mettent en place et Mme Lepire entrevoit une réalité longtemps occultée.
Avec une écriture tout en retenue, le premier roman de Michèle Terdiman évoque avec beaucoup de justesse et d’émotion la folie ordinaire, la transmission et les secrets de famille.
- Bleue
- Paru le 11/02/2021
- Genre : Littérature française
- 128 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715255944
- ISBN : 9782715255944
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Presentation
When Mrs Lepire goes to a retirement house, it is a deliberate decision. In this place, she is alone with herself, far from the bustle of the modern world but still alive. One day, she is told that the investigation relating to Mr Raymond Dilou, who was dead 50 years ago, was re-opened and that she will be certainly questioned about it. Who is Raymond Dilou, this man who drowned and who remind him to her half a century later? Little by little she recollects a shady and distant past: her parents come from opposite backgrounds (one is Walloon, the other is Flemish), her mother is depressed and exuberant whereas her father is an unassuming but beloved person. The famous Raymond Dilou was a psychiatrist in the clinic where her mother had frequent stays. He is ever more present in the family cell… Who was he, and what did he really do in their home? Step by step the pieces of the memory puzzle take their place and the old lady opens her eyes to a reality that has been overshadowed for a long time…
Through short chapters, alternating between the present of the retirement house and the past of the childhood, Michèle Terdiman evocates accurately ordinary madness, transmission and family secret.
Sans intention de nuire is Michèle Terdiman’s first novel.
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