The writer Yann Moix is the author and not the victim of most of the abuse he describes in his novel Orleans , says his brother Sunday, in an open letter published by Le Parisien .
"My life as a beaten child"
"He sacrifices reality on the altar of his literary ambitions," said Alexandre Moix, refusing that his brother stands "like the torchbearer of the cause of the unfortunate children" whereas, according to him "he makes fun of himself" of the suffering of others. Orleans (Grasset), in bookstores since Wednesday, tells the unhappy childhood of the novelist and filmmaker, marked according to him by the mistreatment of his father. Violence described in detail in an interview with "Seven to eight" broadcast on TF1 last Sunday and titled My life as a child beaten .
A version already described as "pure fabulously" by his father Jose, which evokes a "strict" education but denies the violence that accuses his eldest son, now 51 years old. "I suffered twenty years of abuse and humiliation of a rare violence on his part.The same ones he describes in his novel, by lending to our parents", says for his part Alexandre Moix, de four years younger than Yann. "Attempted first-floor defenestration and drowning in the toilet bowl when I was 2, repeated beatings as soon as our parents were away, systematic destruction of my new toys," he quotes.
"Real abuse"
"My mother was chasing me in the kitchen with a butcher's knife," says Yann? It was he who, as a teenager, "chased me (...) with a huge kitchen knife screaming - ready to kill me - that he was going to bleed me like a piglet," replies Alexandre. "The corrections he received from my father (...) followed the abuse, they very real, he inflicted me," he says again.
Alexandre Moix, also a writer and director, also claims that his brother did everything to prevent the publication of his first novel and to harm him in the film industry.