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The narrator then calls Thomas, a large -cousin on the maternal side, who says he has a second photo of Edmond, a cliché on which he poses in a funny outfit – we are not far from the folk costume – which adds a little more thickness to the mystery. However, “With us, says Thomas, we never talked about him. In addition, We simply said: he did a lot of sorrow to his mother.” At the edge of the Vesdre. In addition, in a setting marked by the floods of July 2021, the visit to Thomas concluded with the opening of a vast intimate project-why does the faded memory of Edmond resonate as much in the body of the narrator? Furthermore, In the biographical arsenal, it only has a few landmarks. For example, “His too we advise you read “le brief existence held in five dates. In addition, October 30, 1834: Birth in Liège. Similarly, May 25, 1856: he wrote to his father since Freiberg. March 21, 1862: he saved two young people who fell in the Meuse. August 7, 1863: he was distinguished by the city of Liège for his heroic act. June 15, 1865: he died in Orleans”. Thus opens the investigation into Edmond. The beautiful dark…

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In addition to her investigations on the spectrum of her grandfather, the narrator – married, mother of two daughters, tries to enlighten her own condition in a life that has deviated from standards to reinvent herself elsewhere. Vincent, her husband, is homosexual. It is – neither for him, nor for her, a valid pattern of separation. we advise you read “le Their couple. their home are therefore open to men – Markus, Joao, Jérôme, Brian, Nikolai – with whom Vincent will have relations. The opportunity for her to relate her discovery of a world next to the world – gay culture. her rituals, her places, her folklore (magnificent episode of the election of Mister Bear in which Nikolai participates). The opportunity also to find an identity in a universe where she would like to be more visible because. as she affirms – “if homosexuals suffer from their relegation in hiding, their wives, in the closet too, do not benefit from the support of a community”.

Caroline Lamarche. who succeeds here one of her best books, describes to perfection these networks of LGBT life, not hesitating to make forays in the history of homosexuality to better illustrate the quest for her narrator. The novel follows two lines. tries the rapprochement we advise you read “le between the banishment of Edmond yesterday and the freedom of Vincent today, all juxtaposed in the sketch of the invisible filaments which links to our own family legend. As for whether it is all true-Edmond’s photo in its strange costume exists. it serves as an illustration of the cover banner and is credited “particular collection of the author”-it will be said that in the autobiographical dimension of the text, we prefer the result of the site, that is to say the text.

The beautiful dark, Caroline Lamarche, Seuil, 230 p.