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Camille

 by Julien Dufresne-Lamy

907 times

, published on August 26, 2021 by Éditions Plon.


Her favorite quote:

“There are two kinds of memories that make us.

The memories that we tell to ourselves, entrenched, regardless of life and dramas, and those that others tell for our intentions such as tales, little old fables that everyone describes, embellishes, sometimes distorts, to screw in us, implacable lag bolts.

"


Why this book?

  • Because after having discovered the author's pen

    with

    My father, my mother, my earthquakes

    , which I had particularly liked, I was impatient and curious to discover

    Camille 907 times

    .

    The title intrigued me and once the book closed, it made sense.

  • Because Julien Dufresne-Lamy, offers a much more intimate novel, taking as main character Camille, a friend, whose life he evokes, the way in which she was able to build herself as a woman, by having a father who exploited them , Dodo la Brine, highlighted during the DSK affair, pimp, owner of several brothels in Belgium.

    Even if this father is a common thread, the author writes for Camille, on Camille, but also on the women of this family who had to deal with the presence of a man like him.

  • Because the author pays a beautiful tribute to women in general,

    to parent-child relationships by confiding, through a few lines, on his own story.

  • Because the alternation of chapters gives a dynamic rhythm between memories of Camille, of his adolescence, but also of his adult life and those where the author reveals his relationship to writing, his observations and his relationship with Camille .

  • Because I rediscovered the sensitivity of Julien Dufresne-Lamy's pen,

    what I particularly appreciated is the intimacy that settles between the reader and the author.

  • Because it is a book all in confidence, in sensitivity,

    which does not fall into self-pity, on what could have been "poor Camille".

    He puts the words on what she dares not say, or even think.

    The passage from the status of a child with Camille's place as a girl, to that of a woman and a mother is finely approached, with the necessary distance throughout the story.

  • Because it is a therapy book, offered by a friend who gives the floor,

    listens to the silences and observes the gestures, the body which speaks.

    It's all in the details, but nothing is too much.

    It is finely written, finely observed.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 This is the true story of Camille, daughter of.

Not an actor or a singer, but the notorious pimp Dodo la Brine.

Since childhood, Camille has coped with the absence of this father occupied by his brothels and his trips to prison.

Characters.

 Camille, daughter of Dodo la Saumure, pimp, owner of several brothels in Belgium.

Marie who left her father, her maternal grandmother, Antoinette, in awe of her son, her half-sisters Diane and Daphné.

Thomas, Camille's husband, benevolent and solid.

And the author ...

Places.

 Paris, Belgium, Brittany, brothels.

A sum of places imprinted with Camille.

The time.

 Current.

The author.

 Julien Dufresne-Lamy, born in 1987, of which this is the 6th novel.

For

Jolis Jolis Monstres

(Belfond, 2019), he was awarded the Grand Prix des Blogueurs.

He is also a children's author.

This book was read with

 the pleasure of finding the pen of Julien Dufresne-Lamy, a fine psychologist of the human soul, observer of life in general, but above all a talented author who gives pride of place to all these different, enriching lives. , with unfeigned modesty, he steps aside to bring them to light.

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