During detention, every tenth Frenchman began to write. In his novel Writing workshopNatalie David-Weil returns to this need for fiction, whether we write it or consume it.
This year, in Cannes, the eyes will be dazzled Asteroid CityA Wes Anderson film that takes us through the American wilderness in a 1960s sci-fi film. The hairstyles are full of Britantine and the lips are red. True fiction, just the way we like them. But why is this vertigo felt in listening to stories as in writing them? During detention, every tenth Frenchman began to write. In his novel Writing workshop(1), Natalie David-Weil takes us on an immersive journey; why do we need fiction so much?
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Living that other life
Every night the child wants to go to bed with a story, then two, then three. Memorize a famous story about a penguin with a face, thanks to which a child can anchor himself in the life in front of him. Every weekend, the couple wants to go to the cinema, discover love stories on the big screen, the best way to immerse themselves in the history of derailed trains, dysfunctional families, far away but so close. These projections allow you to get to know yourself better, developing your empathy. “Fiction, whether we write it or consume it, offers us multiple existences,” summarizes Natalie David-Weil. The characters allow us to feel adventurous like Indiana Jones for a few hours, mistreated like Cosette (MiserableDazzling as Solal (The beauty of the Lord ), with a reassuring filter to be safe at home.”
Writing vertigo
Does fiction feed on reality or vice versa? In her book, Natalie David-Weil dramatizes the doubts of her characters, substituting documentary writing or coverage, reality writing or tolerable reality. According to him, our relations with fiction are especially intimate. “Life is more interesting if you imagine it like scenes from a novel,” says the author. Everything you feel is scary or boring, if you think of yourself as a character in a novel, you can calm yourself down. everything can be overcome. He who leads literary workshops in Belgium, where he lives, knows this very well. the work of fiction is psychoanalytic. “I don’t know much about the writers in the workshops, I don’t know their professions, family situations… And yet, I only perceive the essentials: neuroses, obsessions, worries… it’s terribly interesting.” A writing workshop is always a place of upheaval.
If you consider yourself a character in a novel, you can relax: everything is surmountable
Natalie David-Weil, author
Capturing the future
Did you know? Fiction writers have a mission to imagine the world of tomorrow, just like risk prevention engineers. The most famous of them, the American couple Alvy and Heidi Toffler, entered Future collision(published in 1972) told the story of a hacker who fights against the computerization of the world. They described the psychological state of individuals and societies facing information overload and the feeling that “too much change is happening in too little time.” Let’s think about that for a moment. Isn’t the question of reproductive rights in the United States written into the novels of Margaret Atwood (meaning her shocking dystopia? The Scarlet Maid )? What happens with the hacking of personal data could not be predicted with the series black-mirror ?
“When we write, we are sponges. We want to understand the world we live in, and finally, in the compensation that some offer, we can look for solutions. This includes imagination, which can also be called anticipation, on a microscopic or sometimes macroscopic scale; when we read 1984Or Livestock farm, we catch the pile of information digested by Orwell,” emphasizes Natalie David-Weil. Fiction is a great gateway to a better understanding of reality, concludes the expert, convinced that the world would benefit greatly if everyone picked up a pen to capture it… or reinvent it.
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Source: Le Figaro
