Title : In Silence - Daniel Arsand - book
Summary :
A chronicle of a family in the provinces at the beginning of this century, In Silence evokes a time that for millions of people was first one of exile: peasants believed they would find a better future in the city, and were then forced to wander as lost souls. Edgar sold the poor farm that his family ran in the hamlet of Doisnons, in the Madeleine mountains, and moved to Roanne with his wife Adélaïde and his two daughters, Marie and Anne. But the city is a strange place, where pleasure is bought - and escaped - where the earth is no longer there to protect you from its authority. Edgar will not resist it for long. He leaves behind three women who will each attempt, with varying success, to invent a new world in which to live... All three remain haunted by the feeling of a loss to be filled: Adélaïde, powerless to grasp life, withdraws into seclusion; Marie, who embodies the norm (selfishness and ambition mixed together), will soon offer the image of what is rather hastily called success; Anne, for her part, guardian of the old savageries, will refuse to abandon the free paths even if they lead to the worst. Three characters condemned to live outside themselves who have nothing left but the desperate desire to find themselves... or the fervor to lose themselves. Everything in them is irretrievable. Carried by the memory of a past from which they know they are excluded, they are at the mercy of the whims and renunciations of their own memory. Doomed by it to be, well before the hour of the end, nothing but emptiness and silence. A deafening silence, echoing with the thousand questions we cannot formulate.
- EAN: 9782752902085
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