Sébastien Spitzer, yellow fever and black chills

Portrait of the writer Sébastien Spitzer Credits: Astrid di Collalanza

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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A terrible epidemic of yellow fever in the southern United States at the end of the 19th century.

Sébastien Spitzer's new novel “Fever” probes the human soul grappling with extraordinary circumstances. 

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In the face of incomprehension, in the face of fear, in the face of death, everyone reacts differently.

It's a bit as if the epidemic is an indicator of the best and the worst in man, to the point of making him a hero or a coward.

Of this humanity, which is both strong and weak in the face of a spreading disease,

has made a novel.

A story of courage, love, and redemption too.

Not in today's world facing the COVID-19 coronavirus;

but in the south of the United States at the end of the 19th century, in this southern land not yet rid of its slave and segregationist demons, where yellow fever wreaked havoc in this year 1878. "La Fever" was published by Albin editions Michel.

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  Isaure Hiace visited the Sigmund Freud museum.

It has just reopened its doors after 18 months of renovation and expansion work.

In addition to Freud's office, one can now visit the private apartment of the psychoanalyst's father, both located in the old building where he lived from 1891 to 1938.

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