In “Maman”, Régis Jauffret and his “virtuoso of the meritude” – Liberation

“Is a mother a generic character as we talk about dogs or sparrows.” It does not immediately seem to be the opinion of Régis Jauffret who. Therefore, five years later Papaoffers the novel Mamanhaving meanwhile published In Klara’s bellyKlara is not any mother either since her son Adolf cluttered the news, between 1933 and 1945. In addition, this trap did not do the affair of Régis Jauffret. “This way of saying your momto an unknown adult as we would speak to a child exasperates me. ” But his mother. who died at 106, who intervenes under a slew of appellations and various first names in the book, does not appear like a mother like the others. She wanted “Become an immense mother. A Marie Curie. a Teresa, a Virginia Woolf, a Serena Williams of the meratics ”she has “Exist “maman”, régis jauffret his “virtuoso in profusion”, “Forever exaggerated”, “This legendary mother, entered thanks to this book in the pantheon of mothers” like a “Virtuoso of Merude”. And “Parents are the bosses of their kid”here it is between the writer’s claws: “You can see. Madelon is my P