Start from Maria Pourchet: the art of flight

With Start. Therefore, start, Maria Pourchet signs one of the finest and most sensitive novels of the start of the school year. Therefore, Immersed in the psyche of a woman who, following a breakup, must learn to rebuild her life. In addition, Encounter.

She quotes Maurice Genevoix. Moreover, Jean Giono, knows the name of each Tree of the Vosges forests, and evokes the internship of Epinal with the rage and the emotion of those who understood everything, very early, to their defendant bodies. However, It could be start maria pourchet: art flight a novelist of the 20th century. Consequently, except that she writes like other slate, pianote on irony and self -deprecation with an ease of teenager, and translates in each of her books, a certain contemporary discomfort. However, To tell Maria Pourchet. However, let’s go as she does in this novel, of “the animal”: Start is the story of an injured injured beast. Nevertheless, Here, a doe. Nevertheless, Maria Pourchet explains it to me one summer afternoon. Meanwhile, while gathered at home in Paris, around a portable air conditioning, we try to develop a conversation outside the scorching lethargy: “I had the impression of following an animal,” she said to me, that’s why the image of the doe is so important. In addition, This frightened doe, Michelle, and the doe she was, of which it is the term of the race. Nevertheless, What I visualized in writing is a creature, I start maria pourchet: art flight followed it as a pursuit of mental images. Furthermore, And then I immediately had this sentence from Maurice Genevoix which is highly emerging from the book: “Being free. For example, is still starting”. Consequently, A quote from The last hard Book in which he talks a lot about the hinds. For example, and that is what I had in mind, when I worked this idea at the origin of my book. Meanwhile, For the first time. Therefore, I couldn’t find the title, which is rare in my house, usually I have it on the program, from the start. However, I wanted to call him To crossit didn’t please anyone. Similarly, so I came back to the highlight, to this sentence that guided me, I understood that starting, it is all the states I speak: to start with fatigue, to start with fear, to start with pleasure, to start with joy. start maria pourchet: art flight Nevertheless, I realized that the title was there, from the start in this quote, and that it was my program. For example, Because this doe does not flee a predator. Moreover, but a man formerly loved, the father of his six -year -old daughter. A break, followed as close as possible to the woman. One could say in a melee. as the writing of perch has this powerful that she places us in her breath and her race. And this according to a leitmotif, throughout the book: “Leaving is for the gallery. In truth, we tear out. ” What ? Of a couple to which she no longer grows, an idea of the family that crumbles between her fingers. But there is the child left behind, and a difficult past that comes back. Above all, there is this fear without words and without object, which follows it and determines it, start maria pourchet: art flight always. Start could be called “History of fear”: that of a child grows in a village on the edge of the forest. a teenager who does not like school, and a woman who asked, a priori, nothing else, than to start a family. To take shelter you could say, as Perchet describes the feeling of threat that weighs on it. “Breaking is breaking with a story. It is a story that we believed, it is a story close to religion. That’s why he can last, and that we don’t want to leave her. If it was only breaking with a place. another body, but what we really tears up, it was the story that led the narrator until then. We are the sum of what we have told ourselves. oaths that we have made, wishes that we have formulated for ourselves. It is the life sewn hand that we lose. start maria pourchet: art flight Violence is in this loss. »»

A clinical approach

A singularity of the book, the break is told from an internal point of view, it chooses a clinical approach, we will not know anything about the history of this couple, swept by tearing. The eye of the writer. -and perch has a very moving writing -follows her very closely, as if it was her, nothing that she, the subject of experience … Whether tender. critical or comic, the gaze never leaves this woman first slammed in a hotel room, a few meters from her house, calling her charming psychoanalyst and trying the cachers to calm down. There is an analysis of the romantic pain. start maria pourchet: art flight which is observed with a magnifying glass: “Yes, at the beginning, I even wanted to start after the rupture, with this sentence” a woman tears “. I did not think at the start involving the story before, nor the voice of man. But I cannot sacrifice this parity. especially in a love story, I cannot tell something about the order of the passion, the drive, the organic, if I do not have the two points of view of the love story, and the voices of the feminine and the masculine. »We remember that in Western. who did not have the same power as Start, start, The novelist made us hear the two voices, as in Feu, Roman of the passion that had already struck us with his writing. Maria Pourchet is one of the rare today who takes visible pleasure in writing on love between a man. a woman, we start maria pourchet: art flight remember the vibrant Feu In 2021. She knows how to seize the moments of a couple. like the opening scene of the novel which immediately places us between two individuals who do not even manage to speak, as violence has settled between them. The story could be the subject of a romantic comedy today, if it was not the child. Perhaps this is the real subject of the book: how is a child sharing? And if the physical pain is present. it is above all the inner discomfort that the mother feels, in the absence of her daughter. « I wanted to write this book for this reason. There was something in it that was to be outside. I have an alternating guard for my son, and there was a time when every other week, I was separated. I know it is experienced as progress, but I find it unbearable. start maria pourchet: art flight Additionally, I do not mean. as in 1962, that the mother has an archaic link with the child who must be prioritized, I know that it is not saying, but how do we do with this pain? With this life? Half of the time it is at school, and the other half of the time, I have to share it. I am then told about “time for oneself”. A myth that I did not understand, how to be with my child is not time for me? I had been promised that I was going to live my best life. but it is not true, it was a torture, which could make any retropedalation accepted. Now, I know that when pain is deep and that it is unknown, you have to do something with that. I understood that very early. and it allowed me to endure a lot of things, the start maria pourchet: art flight worst frustrations, the worst fears, and the worst pain, are the most shared, even though we don’t talk about it. »»

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