INTERVIEW
It is one of the leading novels of the literary season: Orléans by Yann Moix, published by Grasset. The writer describes the abuse inflicted on him by his parents. Except that if his father admits to having given his children a "strict" education, he has denied by press voices that he has gone as far as described in the book. As for the brother of the writer, Alexandre Moix, himself author, he assures in an open letter published Saturday by Le Parisien to have been the real victim of the abuses evoked ... and Yann Moix the executioner, trying to throw him by the window or even to drown it.
"In this matter, no one can provide material evidence, it remains an intimate conviction," reacted on Monday at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard, in the morning of Europe 1, Olivier Nora, the editor of Yann Moix . "My deep conviction is that there is a very great truth in Yann Moix's text, and anyone who has read this book knows that it was written by a man whose sensory sensors were saturated from infancy ", he says.
"Everyone is legitimate to claim his suffering"
"When it comes to reconstructing childhood memories, everyone has their subjective truth, even in families where love prevails," says the editor, for whom "everyone writes his family romance, his own story."
"Our era that indexes talent on suffering is unbearable," still hurts Olivier Nora. "Everyone is justified in claiming their suffering in a pathogenic family, and it is not enough to have suffered for talent, but there is one who has become a great writer, and this is Yann Moix!" -he.
Bad publicity
Above all, Grasset's CEO defends himself from using the controversy as a means of promoting Yann Moix's book. "It's obscene, I would have done well, and the author too," he says. "We will inevitably fall into the media rut of: who is right, who is wrong? We know that the tendency, when a book releases this kind of controversy, is that ultimately people are turning away," says -t it.
"It gives the feeling that it is a Roman of complaint, of lament, a teardrop text", still laments Olivier Nora. "But for whom the bed is a book where there are no pathos.It is not a book that aims the compassion of the reader.It is a text on the birth of a writer, essentially "he concludes.