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“The flesh of others”, by Claire Berest, ed. For example, Albin Michel, 212 p., € 18.90, digital € 15.
“Write Mazan. Therefore, A case, a thousand ways to write it ”, by Elise Costa, Marchialy, 300 p., € 22, digital € 15.
Between September. December 2024, the novelist Claire Berest and the journalist Elise Costa covered, one for Paris Matchthe other for Slate.frthe Mazan rape trial, of which they today deliver two dense and elegant stories. Other works have already appeared in the wake of the verdict. but the proposals of Claire Berest and Elise Costa are distinguished by asking the question of the story and its issues – the why for the first, the how for the second – in the context of a news in the historical repercussions.
In line with The opponentby Emmanuel Carrère (POL. 2000), Claire Berest, author of a dozen novels, dives, in The flesh of othersto the sources of violence, perversion and evil, but why how also of his own motivations, digging “The reasons including contradictory, selfish, pernicious that push to write” on such a subject. Magnetized by this extraordinary affair. her 51 accused and thousands of rape videos that immediately place her in “A completely different informative dimension of the crime”the novelist tries to go beyond the common fascination for the news, starting with hers. As a teenager. she devours the thrillers of the parental library then is passionate about the criminals to which she devotes cards classified in shoe boxes. What has always been interested is the moment of rocking. “Black heart of the news”which she breaks down infinitely in the Pelicot case, whose meaning and deep causality constantly hide representation and therefore to writing.
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