Title : The Blue Child - Henry Bauchau - Book

Summary :

In a Paris day hospital, Véronique, an analyst, takes charge of Orion, a seriously disturbed young adolescent. Despite his difficulties, she discerns that he is gifted with a powerful imagination and undertakes to guide him towards drawing and sculpture. The paths of art and those of daily life are strewn with uncertainties and failures, but in his "dictations of anxiety," Orion manages to open himself to speech and to put into words what haunts him: the fear of a demon of Paris, which radiates and devastates him. Over the years and following unusual paths, the work—the interior work and the work of art—appears and asserts itself. Delirium, confusion, the surprising effects of art in action, the patience of the unbinding people who share the efforts of the "people of disaster" (the handicapped), the unspeakable mystery of suffering that stubborn hope combats, such are the themes of this book into which Henry Bauchau poured much of his experience of psychosis and analysis to reach, beyond the lived experience, the life of the novel.
In it, he continues a long-standing dialogue with the imagination, anguish, madness, and the re-enchantment of the world. Under the sign of hope, the fleeting presence of the "blue child" illuminates Orion and Véronique on a path of compassion.

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