Colombe Schnek. “The incest in Neige Sino’s Triste Tigre is real and unavoidable”

What is said here is terrifying, and the author warns that it will not happen good ending. Neige Sinno forces his reader to face the evil, the story of his abused childhood and brings him no solution, because it is impossible for those who have been subjected to such abuse to escape, the bloodlust darkens everything. So she tells that after thirty years of walking with her daughter and father, the most monstrous thoughts invade her, she will never be at peace.

Incest is much more than the subject of this book, Neige Sinno tells directly about what happened to her, the gestures, the trial, analyzes other literary texts that deal with incest, and finally thinks about what she is. doing it, trying to write it. “I hate making art with my story,” he writes. In a short story by Mexican writer Antonio Ortuño, a little girl who was raped in front of her eyes tells the child narrator: […], let them read. Let them tear the pages. And let them eat them.’ We don’t say if the writer-turned-narrator experienced this, but this example given by Neige Shino is magnificent, it makes us think about the power of both the reader and the author.

Sad tiger is a very beautiful literary work, but writing here is not seen as a consolation, an opportunity for distance.

Dove Schneck

With the grace of his subtle wit, his impish sentences, his precise words, Sad tiger is a very beautiful piece of literature, but writing here is not seen as a consolation, an opportunity for distance, quoting Virginia Woolf, who was molested by her brother as a child, she writes: of pure suffering living in the mode of the unreal. It becomes real only when it is perceived in language.” Incest in this book is real and there is no avoiding it. The author takes away everything that is disgusting from which it radiates and confronts the “land of darkness” with cold anger and always with simple words.