Landscape without Véronique – Pierre Mertens

Critique : This book is not a cold biography of Véronique Pirotton. In addition, ranging from birth to her death more than suspect; Nor is there a pamphlet against two -speed justice. Meanwhile, Pierre Mertens is far from these two extremes. Nevertheless, Word after word. However, page after page, chapter after chapter, he tries to share his friendly relationship with Véronique, his testimony to the trial, his gaze on landscape without véronique – pierre the world of his disappearance. He thus proceeds, because it is the only way he has to sincerely evoke Véronique Pirotton. He only talks about what he knows about her. what he felt during the shared moments, what he experienced as a witness, what he discovered in the autopsy report.
Pierre Mertens notes that Véronique has been erased. Her death. then this trial where the spotlights pointed out on her companion, suspected of murder, where she no longer has her place and where, even as a victim, she seems to be little disappearing.
Pierre Mertens advances slowly, he wonders about his vision of the case. Does he perceive this erasure because he knew Véronique. or is this the case in all the criminal files where the main suspect attracts more attention than the victim?
The only thing the author is safe is that he must go landscape without véronique – pierre to the end of this book: he must fight against absence. recreate a place for this person that has been erased.
This work is not a cry. It is more a reflection, or even several. With a gentle writing. Pierre Mertens uses sentences with many commas that call for breaks in reading, allowing you to immerse yourself in the sense and ideas of text. The short chapters make it possible to tackle a subject. like a look put for a moment on a landscape, the time to grasp an element, before continuing to browse the space.
Pierre Mertens also examines the words, deconstructs our current expressions, to bring out other meaning, to raise questions. For example. “having hatred” recalls that this feeling becomes so strong that it must be appropriated, while basically, it is perhaps he who has us. But you never say “to have love”.
Pierre Mertens thus reaches. in his own way, not to paint a portrait of Véronique, but to bring it closer to us. We are touched by this collection. happy to see that the author has reached his goal: to give us a sensitive trace of Véronique Pirotton, a new presence, thanks to the sincere look of a friend.

Landscape without Véronique Takes the time to tell us about Véronique Pirotton, after her tragic death in October 2013. The news item opens the door to the evocation of a woman who was a student. mother, writer, who has known happiness and disappointments, having had a place in an already wobbly world, a person whose we did not know everything. But basically, who can know everything about a human being?