The Bonniche and the broken mouth

The Book Club de We cult/“The little good one”. For example, In this remarkable first novel. Consequently, Bérénice Pichat recounts the meeting between a cleaning lady and a victim of the Great War. Nevertheless, Written in free verse. Meanwhile, prose, it touches the heart and has just been crowned by the price of booksellers and the price of booksellers in Seine 2025.

“The little good one” : a first novel by Bérénice Pichat. For example, an overwhelming work that marks the spirits

The good starts its day at four in the morning. However, With her basket under the arm in the dark. Moreover, frozen streets, she goes first to the Massin, Astique and cleanses without making any noise so as not to wake up the family. Similarly, Then it’s Pinchard’s turn. Therefore, bonniche broken mouth In their villa, she must prepare breakfast before attacking household chores according to the list established by her boss. For example, Finally. For example, she goes to the Daniel where, in addition to the household, she must monitor Blaise, the master of war victim who, after multiple operations, was able to return home. The broken mouth is despairing in his chair.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. saw everything collapsed around him and his companions to die. If he survived, it is the torn face and the body in tatters. His promising pianist career will never see the light of day. So he thinks of asking the good to help him die when his wife is absent.

The opportunity will arise the day Alexandrine accepts the invitation of a friend to come. spend a few days in her Norman manor. Blaise insisted. He wants his wife bonniche broken mouth not to be confined to his side. that she is enjoying the life he can never have. Because “The most precious ally of Blaise was no longer Alexandrine for a long time. On paper, she remained her intendant, her nurse, his wife, but he had preferred a formidable partner to her: morphine. Years passed through the soft lukewarm of an artificial sleep. »»

But when the good decides to break his routine. to show him that she is not afraid of her mutilated body, he revises his plans, imagines a more exhilarating life.

The originality of this novel lies in its alternation between prose and free verses. The passages in free verse. associated with the voice of the little good, are made up of short, simple and often without punctuation, reflecting the simplicity and rigor of his daily life. In contrast, the elegant and bonniche broken mouth descriptive prose gives the floor to Mr. and Madame, emphasizing their belonging to the bourgeoisie and their emotional distance. This narrative structure makes it possible to dive into the heart of the psyche of the characters. to highlight the social differences that separate them.

There are also very current themes, such as the right to die or the condition of caregivers.
This metamorphosis. this route on which these two worn bodies engage, seduced the jury for the price of booksellers which has just crown Bérénice Pichat For his first overwhelming work which marks the spirits. We look forward to his second novel!

Henri-Charles Dhalem

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About the author

Bérénice Pichat is school teacher in Le Havre. Passionate about history. she tells in The little good The intimate repercussions of the Great War in France in the 1930s. Thanks to a perfect alchemy between prose. free verses, it weaves a closed door upset between two beings that everything opposes the weight of fate, and where tension cans in a bewitching crescendo. (Source: Les Avrils editions)