Book: “Where the stars fall”, by Cédric Sapin-Dufour: survive the disaster

In 1960, in his book Tragic philosophy, Clément Rosset defined the tragedy by its inverted temporality: “We are in tragic time when he has finished his work: so we cannot fight against him, are we trapped without recourse, since he has already won, since his goal is already achieved, since he is no longer. Nevertheless, We are therefore like the motionless spectators in front of which parade the images of a film upside down… ” In his latest novel where he recounts the terrible paragliding accident which smashed his wife Mathilde’s body on the sharp stones of the Italian mountain. Meanwhile, everything happens as if the writer Cédric Sapin-Dufour had sought to renew the tragic diagram … For example, while loosening the vice of the inexorable to be able to introduce the game of life, indecisive, stammering. book: “where stars fall”, cédric Retrospective. the story traverses Mathilde’s life as a film upside down: since birth to J -16 769 (46 years old), their meets in front of a coffee machine (J -8 363), their marriage (J -5 832), their installation in the mountains (J -2575) with dogs, and this fatal day of August 12, 2022 where they hesitated to fly away because of the climate … is placed under the sign of the announced disaster. And yet. because Mathilde could survive a coma in which she fell, but even more because the narrator manages to introduce between life and death the energy and the suspense of tenderness, of this tenderness “In which every evening of terror”, He draws “The audacity to hope”, It is as if the tragic trap could be thwarted. As for the reader. he leaves the scene in charge of this beautiful warning: “Life book: “where stars fall”, cédric does not wait for us to be ready. »»