The Resident -
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d'Elsa Vasseur, published on January 21, 2021 by Éditions Robert Laffont.
Her favorite quote:
A journalist asked him: "Why are you writing?" A question a priori simple, but which had plunged him into an abyss of perplexity.
Why this book?
Because as a reader, I have often wondered how authors
come to find inspiration to write small masterpieces.
Elsa Vasseur gives us part of the answer here: authors have a visceral need to exorcise their past, writing allows them to self-psychoanalyze and heal their ailments.
Some writers need to engage in their novel in order to be able to express emotions that they would keep within them if they could no longer write.
Because what happened in our childhood defines us as an adult.
The deep traumas we experienced in our childhood are sometimes buried so deep in our unconscious that they ruin our life without knowing why.
Elsa Vasseur seeks to understand how our brains prevent us from remembering certain moments in our childhood to protect us from devastating events that can reappear in a flash with a trigger.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Jacques Cascade is a prodigy writer who can no longer find inspiration.
His publisher offers him to go to a writers' residence not far from New York where he can concentrate on his next novel and get away from his wife with whom nothing is going well.
Characters.
Jacques Cascade, writer who rose to prominence at a young age and whose ghosts from the past never cease to haunt him.
An American-Iranian writer, the new star of novels in France, an Indian poet, British author complete the picture of the residents of the writers' center.
Places.
The White Falls writing residence in upstate New York.
The time.
Nowadays with resurgences of Jacques' past.
The author.
Elsa Vasseur is 31 years old, she is a television screenwriter and teaches creative writing.
She is the author of a collection of short stories
Le Goût du lait au chocolat
and of a first novel
L'Heure Bleue
.
This book was read with
curiosity about the work of writers.
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