According to literary critic Arnaud Viviant, there is a “sociological side” in Brigitte Giraud’s book, awarded Thursday by the Goncourt 2022, which makes it, according to him, a book “much superior” to a book of mourning work .
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“It’s a book full of life, back to life”, react Thursday 3 November on franceinfo Arnaud Viviant, journalist, literary critic and writer about the Goncourt 2022 awarded to Brigitte Giraud for Vdrunk fast, published by Flammarion. In this intimate novel, the author tries to understand and give meaning to the accidental death of Claude, the father of her son, in 1999. A succession of “if”s opens this novel.
“The real subject is her. Her and how we’re going to come back to life by burying this story because she has to leave this house.”
Arnaud Vivianat franceinfo
In this book, Brigitte Giraud is preparing to sell the house in Lyon where she has lived since the death of her companion in a motorcycle accident. “This house of misfortune that she acquired with Claude and which will lead to this accident and Claude’s death. 25 years later, she is forced to leave and it is at the moment of wrapping up her business that she also wraps up her work of mourning. It’s a book full of life, back to life”continues the literary critic.
According to Arnaud Vivian, “there is a sociological side to Brigitte Giraud’s book. She explains how she was led, by sociology, to want to live in a house rather than an apartment in the center of Lyon”. According to him, it is “which makes it a far superior book to the work of mourning we are now accustomed to, which has almost become a genre in literature”.