Clara Dupont-Monod, winner of the Femina Prize for her solar and intimate novel

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Clara Dupont-Monod in studio at RFI (October 2021).

© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

2 min

Clara Dupont-Monod, journalist and editor, is the author of several novels including "The Passion according to Juette" (Grasset, 2007), "The king said that I was devil" (Grasset, 2014) and at Stock in 2018, "The revolt".

His new book entitled “To adapt”, published by Stock, tells the story of the arrival of a child unlike any other in a family.

He was awarded the Landerneau Readers Prize and the Femina Prize.

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Adapt, price Femina 2021 © Stock

"It is the story of a child with black eyes which float, and escape into the vagueness, a child always lying down, with soft and plump cheeks, with translucent legs and veined with blue, with a high thread of voices, with curved feet and a hollow palate, an eternal baby, an unsuitable child who draws an invisible border between his family and others. This is the story of his place in the Cévennes house where he was born, in the midst of powerful nature and protective mountains; from his place in siblings and in troubled childhoods. That of the eldest who merges with the child, who, cheek to cheek, attentive and almost Siamese, attaches himself to it, abandons himself to it and That of the youngest, in whom disgust and anger take root, the rejection of the child who aspires to the joy of his parents and the energy of the elder.That of the youngest who lives in the shadow of family ghosts while bringing the rebirth of a present out of memory.

As in a fairy tale, the stones of the court bear witness.

As in the tales, the strength comes from the children, from the mad love of the elder who protects, from the rebellious younger who will reject grief to save the adrift family.

The last one who will reconcile the stories.

The birth of a disabled child told by his siblings. "

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