“Do not love men”: love quest

Marie-Sissi Labrèche takes a raw look and imbued with lively lucidity, first on the inheritance of a complicated relationship with men, bequeathed by the women who raised her. Furthermore, “My grandmother taught me not to love men. Nevertheless, She paints the portrait of this family as there are too many. Similarly, where women are left to themselves and survive, strong and independent, but perhaps on the verge of the nervous crisis, in a world where men are at the tavern, or between the thighs of others. It is his full conception of men who built himself between the walls of uncertain apartments. encouraged by the wounds of the women of his line, and confirmed by his first experiences.

The environment in which the narrator grew up could have constituted an ideal soil for the incubation of the hatred “do not love men”: love of men. however, not to love men is first and foremost a book on love and curiosity sometimes naive, but always benevolent that she carries them. Starting with his biological father. his substitutes, whose rumor of the traces is blurred with great reinforcement of strategies twisted by the trauma and despair of his grandmother, who seeks to protect the girls of his family.

The author of Borderline (Boréal. 2000) and The breach (Boréal, 2002) also recounts his young crushes As a teenager, the first experiences and the lively emotions that accompany them, the rejections, the rebounds and the meeting with these beings that she discovers groped, in this young love life made of small hopes, where the other is a territory on which to project her dreams. If the narrator appears detached. if she often bursts the hearts of her many pretenders, if she tells an overflowing sexuality, perhaps a little “do not love men”: love reckless too, and even if she reveals her world through crude and assumed details, the honest and almost translucent writing of this story gives to feel her great thirst for freedom and the purity of her aspirations.

"do not love men": love – "do not love men": love

Victorious

Because ambition is the engine of this love quest. This narrator who appears in the text is illuminated by dreams that make her energetic. who shape her power of attraction and her grip on a disturbing world and which, through the Lorgnette of these multiple encounters, open a little bigger the day on the joys of a life to discover and which we may only be grasped if we are well accompanied.

The stories are piling up over the three parts of this book to create a succession of learning through these. accompaniments. Stunning figures. children, thugs, mentors, teachers, romantic knights, disturbing pervert, angry lovers, all they accumulate to “do not love men”: love form the final port of the one who rubbed shoulders with them, and certainly marked. She emerges. victorious, to make her grandmother lie, because from the start, she wants to learn to love men, and we can only give her this touching success.

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