With “start”, Maria Pourchet defeats her life to regain joy

QUitter begins with the skin. In addition, Read Maria Pourchet also, judging by the thrill that runs through the first pages, masterful, from her new novel. Meanwhile, Her skin. In addition, Michelle saw her cover with eczema plates and red rings with wrists, like handcuffs that she was scratching to blood. Similarly, To relieve it. Nevertheless, she had first taken a lover, holding “at a distance the evil of living in two with a third, hidden”.

Then the survival instinct had taken over, and Michelle had left Sirius without the head having time to achieve. Nevertheless, “I could have done better than this hallucinated precipitation. Moreover, Anticipate, save. But where I come from. line of girls despite everything prepared for duty, I remain left in the art of thinking about my mouth. »»

“My forests are Chernobyl” – "start", maria pourchet defeats her

In his family, women had not dared to flee. Except one, who died three years later. His incapacity for freedom. Michelle knows how to house her in her inheritance, and in a childhood in the Vosges, in the middle of the forests. There, he had been nicknamed “Biche”. Was it because she feared being prey to men as much as not to be loved? “My forests are “start”, maria pourchet defeats her Chernobyl […]. I bypass them in my travels, I live in sad memory as an exclusion zone. »»

Michelle will have to go back there, however. Her Blanche friend found her a workshop creative writing. And he must win his independence to hope to get custody of his daughter. On the forecourt of her former high school. memories come back to him: the storm of summer 1984, an abusive teacher, the face of a man with whom she had scoured the banks of a river.

Back to oneself. quest for freedom

The intrigue of a book, for Maria Pourchet, is always linked to a place: thus Western (Stock, 2023) had the Lot landscapes for the backdrop, and Start The Vosges, territory of his childhood. Sociologist by training. the writer anchors the desires and the choices of her characters in our time, grabbing them when their life is played out on “start”, maria pourchet defeats her a decision. The heroine is struggling at the heart of a universe whose logic escapes her. from which she opposes a tale, that of her origins, bewitching by her atmosphere the story and our imaginary.

To discover The kangaroo of the day Answer Novel of a return to oneself. of a quest for freedom, Start marries the fears and doubts of her narrator, meanders in which the reader could have the impression of getting lost if the powerful language, on the edge, Maria Pourchet did not sow the precious white pebbles to allow us to find our way.

Start, start, by Maria Pourchet (Stock, 336 p., € 21.90).