Comfortable in a solitude that “no longer calls anyone and does not wait”, Aurore leaves Paris to settle in the countryside, with her little boy, in the house of her recently deceased mother. One evening, a famous actor who was to play in the Dom Juan de Molière arrives there, claiming to be the real owner of the place. On the run after a young actress accused him of “moral violence” after their breakup, the man finds himself at the heart of a media lynching. With Westernher seventh novel, in the dense and energetic style that we already know, Maria Pourchet (Fire, 2021) captures the oscillations of this improbable love duel. For her, this coded genre would be feminine: “It articulates in a single journey the idea of destiny, the idea of the tragedy of the human condition with that of the most fascinating freedom. » In the wake of #MeToo, “in the age of virtue as religion”, she dissects the relationships between men and women by placing “a romantic opposite a reprobate” in the same room.
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