Le côté obscur de la Reine
Je ne lui en veux pas, non, lui en vouloir, ce serait encore la vouloir. Encore rester accrochée. Les gestes d’apaisement dictés par la raison me coûtent mes nuits. On me conseille de me blinder, mais me blinder ne sert à rien, ou alors je ne me blinde pas où il faut, comme il faut. Ma mère m’occupe, ses lamentations me submergent, sa mauvaise foi, ses chantages, son agressivité déguisée en tendresse. Je sors de mes visites lessivée.
Tu prends les choses trop au sérieux, m’écrit ma tante. Il faut que tu fasses un stage de je-m’en-foutisme !
Je dois le reconnaître, j’ai d’énormes lacunes en je-m’en-foutisme. »
M.N.
- Traits et portraits
- Paru le 02/01/2025
- Genre : Littérature française
- 264 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715265103
- ISBN : 9782715265103
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“How I loved her, how we loved each other. That goes without saying, and writing it weighs on my heart. My mother, my mommy, there’s only one woman in the world I can call by that. What a shame. What a waste.
I don’t blame her, no, to blame her would be to still need her. Still hanging on. Gestures of appeasement dictated by reason cost me my nights. I’m advised to harden myself, but hardening myself is useless, or I don’t harden where I should, as I should. My mother keeps me busy, her lamentations overwhelming me, her bad faith, her blackmail, her aggressiveness disguised as tenderness. I leave my visits exhausted.
You’re taking things too seriously, my aunt writes. You need to take a course in “who cares” attitude!
I’ve got to admit, I’ve got a huge gap in my “who cares” skills.”
Marie Nimier is the author of many novels translated in several languages, including La Reine du silence (Prix Médicis 2004, translated in Italian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian and Vietnamese). She also writes songs and stage texts.
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