The playwright and novelist Yasmina Reza elevates the news item to the rank of literature by telling us what she has seen and remembered from various criminal trials, sometimes highly publicized, that she has attended in France in recent years. In Account of certain factsshe witnesses in her own way feminicides, stories of poisoning, rape or corruption, each of which carries a certain idea of human justice. And sometimes, before his eyes, “it is not a trial but an abrupt plunge into a life”. The author of Babylon (Flammarion, 2016, Renaudot prize) punctuates her reports without moral overhang with short, densely packed autobiographical stories in which Venice – where she resides for part of the year -, the wear and tear of time and the specter of death hold important roles. And these fifty-four texts, through which the French writer summons and questions our cruel and vulnerable humanity, are linked together by a crafted language.
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