Every day, Stéphane Place offers you a literature break, in partnership with the Librairie Mollat de Bordeaux. Today, "Croire aux fauves" by Natassja Martin.
"Believe in Fauves" by Natassja Martin
The author of this book is an anthropologist, specialist in arctic populations and it is essential to fully understand the unique approach that led to the writing of this text. This book is not just about the personal, painful and terrifying experience of Nastassja Martin's attack on a bear. An event that occurred four years ago, in August 2015, somewhere in the mountains of Kamtchaka. The author of course recounts this nightmare, the hospitalizations and the successive operations to reconstruct her face but, in 150 pages, she goes much further in the analysis and in the questions raised by this sudden and violent confrontation with this plantigrade. This is what pleased Pierre Coutelle, bookseller at Mollat.
Finding herself entirely in the hands of caregivers, in Russia then in France, Nastassja Martin goes through ups and downs that she describes with a sharp pen. A deep introspection which, inevitably, touches and questions the reader about the aftermath. After the accident and after the shock.
"Believing in wild animals", the story of a reconstruction, not to say a rebirth after what Nastassja Martin designates as an encounter with this bear she survived. An ordeal from which she has learned lessons, which she shares in this powerful text.
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