Sorge Chalandon. “I used to be a beaten child.”

Sorge Challandon’s new book, angry, is anchored in a news. In 1934, the rebellion of fifty-six abused children who escaped from the colony of Belle-Île-en-Mer. A search was organized, and islanders as well as tourists were found for each child. captured a twenty-franc piece… This case inspired Jacques Prévert to write a famous poem, The Child Hunt; the author of My traitor from this comes an adventure novel as rhythmic as it is depressing, following Jules Bonneau, aka La Taine, a lone missing fugitive who tries to rebuild himself thanks to a surrogate family.

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Miss Figaro. – How was born? The Rabid: ?
Sorge Chalandon. – I used to be a battered kid and my father often threatened to send me to a reformatory, going so far as to drop me off in front of the building one night, saying it was one. Added to this was reading an article about the 1977 closure of the Belle-Isle Supervised Education Center. I realized that there used to be a prison here, and I thought I’d make a report release, where I worked I did not write, but I went there several times with the impression of a missed appointment. First I had to talk about betrayal, Lebanon, my parents (in: Father’s Profession, My Betrayer, The Fourth Wall, The Son of Boz… Editor’s note). I closed my graves again and returned to this story, to these child martyrs. I lacked a bias which I found when I learned that one of the fifty-six runaways had not been found…

There are many orphans in adventure novels. Are you interested in that too?
I am more instinctive. I connect with orphans because I wanted to be one. I knew that one day a Jules Vallées dedication would appear in one of my books The child: “To all those who died of boredom in college or who were forced to cry at home, who were abused by their master or beaten by their parents as children.” Because reading this as a teenager, I realized I’m not alone… I can’t write about love, but I can write about brotherhood, friends in pain. Here through an adventure novel, indeed, a film where I embodied the characters and rewrote every line.

I wanted to share my anger. Also restore the period between the two wars, incredible brutality

Sorge Chalandon

Have you envisioned yourself in your character?
Among the children there were apple and chicken thieves, abandoned children… I, I wanted to be a boy. I knew that this novel would tell the story of the redemption-resurrection of a madman who is “forced to loosen his fists to grasp the outstretched hands.” I wanted to share my anger. Also restore the period between the two wars, incredible brutality. What Jules saw relates to what I experienced after leaving my parents’ home at the age of 16. I have always looked for a father. mine has left me without a frame, without landmarks, without anything. I treated myself to two inches the fourth wall There are four here, these sailors, who greet Jules. Literature is also used for that. My life being what it was, I wrote someone else in the books, not silencing the fears, flaws, violence that shaped me.