“Do I have the right to write if I have not finished submitting?” In this story in the form of a rant, Elizabeth Lemay (Daddy IssuesBoréal, 2022) embraces all the paradoxes of the modern woman to claim her right to be angry, emotional, irrational, hysterical, but also her right to seduce, to be on her knees before men, to deprive herself of food and to go under the knife to respond to codes established and jealously protected by those who lead the world, which she strives to denounce. Drawing on the writings of the witches who preceded her — Nelly Arcan, Annie Ernaux, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan, Virginia Woolf and Virginie Despentes —, she studies the societal mechanisms that keep her in constant disharmony with herself and with the more egalitarian world she wishes to see come about. Even if her ideas and her revolts are not new, and the flow of her thoughts is not always coherent, the author spits in the face of the times in an agile and captivating language that devours itself, and reflects an entirety of body and mind to which one can only aspire.
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