“I’m an angry man and I don’t want to shut up”
Pierre Lemaitre’s new novel,
Silence and Fury (Calmann Levy), cont Big world, is about to be released. It will be available in bookstores on Tuesday, January 10. In this social novel set in 1952, Pierre Lemaitre says what he wants “tracking social conflicts”. “To look through the century is less to explain it than to give it a certain color”Pierre Lemaitre assures. “This book is both drama and the acceleration of history”describes the author.
Pierre Lemaitre, often described as a famous writer, questions this term. “When we’re famous, there’s this impression that we have to be demagogues. I’d bet on the contrary that we can have unifying novels. It doesn’t exclude either the reader or the reader.”he said.
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The scene of this novel is the Glorious Thirties. “It fascinates me because it’s the era I grew up in.” in which “What was our luck that we had a tragedy. This is a tragedy.”
As for the 2020s, Pierre Lemaitre judges it “These years lack commitment” where militancy “It is being replaced by social networks. We stand at a distance, we don’t mix anymore.”
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“I’m an angry man”
Women occupy a large place in this book. Pierre Lemaitre pays tribute to Annie Ernaux. “The Incident was a great novel in the history of feminism, and when a man is a man, he cannot write a novel about abortion as one of the questions without going through this great classic.”, assures Pierre Lemaitre. Following the writer, Silence and Fury describes a period “Where men rule”.
If Annie Ernaux writes to “revenge the race”, Pierre Lemaitre “There are things to be said about the childhood that was taken, the desire for revenge, I have in common with Annie Ernaux the social struggle. I’m an angry person and I don’t want to be silenced.” Anger that continues to develop according to the writer.
Her fight to help dyspraxic children
Writer warns of dyspraxia affecting 400,000 children in France. “Parents are forced into an incredibly difficult obstacle course: these children are overwhelmed by the school system,” he said. “These kids are expending their energy to achieve something the system is asking them to do that they can’t produce, and the system will judge them for it. They’re kids who can write a certain number of words well. But they’re asked to write, and if you can’t write, you’re nothing.”He regrets Pierre Lemaitre.
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The writer assures that he will take to the streets to challenge the pension reform. “We live in a terribly divided society, and to bring this up in the face of such big events is borderline provocative.”Pierre Lemaitre reckons.
The writer also wants to reassure his readers. He has not finished his crime novels, but he will finish them first “This soap opera of the century” which he undertook.
