the author of Titus did not love Berenice leads a brilliant and, to say the least, unexpected investigation into the very masculine world of coders. Who are these madmen behind the programs that rule our lives, often without our knowledge?
Madame Figaro. – Did you hesitate before entering this topic?
Natalie Azoulay. – Yes, because it is vast and very foreign to me. I don’t feel capable or legitimate. This world is closed and, yes, I’m afraid people don’t care. Then I realized that I should go there with this distrust. I don’t judge this digital, but I shine a light on it and after that it makes its way.
What attracts you the most? guys who code “?
Their concentration! He makes me fantasize, he’s lost to me. They are completely connected, cut off from the world, with this desire to solve all problems, there is certainly a very strong libido of coders. There is creativity, intelligence, challenge in this activity.
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You are haunted by this childhood friend who appears in the book.
He gradually emerged as the first youth in this quest of the masculine world. A homosexual, Simon introduced me to this world of mixed men, told me a lot, opened his playgrounds for me, then he left the world, pulled himself, I miss him. There was like a ghost behind all these young people in the book, and it was Simone who became the real subject… I put myself as a woman who looks at boys, at men. The desire to understand how masculinity works, this desire for cars, toys…
Your daughters tell you “Aren’t you tired of writing novels? “What if we had to do it all over again?
I would like an operation, I think, to reveal the great mystery, the secret of the body. Or a dancer. Tongues that pass through the body. I couldn’t code, it’s too cold. This book is self-paced, a first for me. I wanted to try narrative non-fiction, as the Anglo-Saxons say, even if there are fictional parts. It’s an experience of otherness I wanted to face beyond myself, then The Perfect Girl: (2022), where there was already a confrontation between literature and mathematics. I also wanted to write more factually without taking myself seriously, it’s actually an educational comedy. But I come back to the novel. I miss its abundant form, its meatier writing. I like the puzzle, the puzzle of the novel…
Does writer’s solitude exist?
Yes, loneliness is really hard when you’re writing. We envy people who have full schedules. But I also need this solitude, otherwise I get lost, I don’t know who I am anymore. It was motherhood that made me want to write (Upset with Mom, 2002, Editor’s Note), it opened the doors of expression. It seems that everyday life was not enough.
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Source: Le Figaro
