The journalist and the cultural columnist publish his first novel. Animatewhere a teenager who falls in a coma is forever intruded to the lives of his loved ones.
It is known for its chronicles “Guten” and “Reading List”, Ambre Chalumeau, on which we also owe @ DétableAuxPartout Instant (“Pokemon Go, but with pictures”) goes to the other side of the barrier, publishing his first novel, AnimateA number when a young Simon suffering from a rare rare virus, he suffocates his friends’ friends, Diane, and losing his parents, giving food, food, collapse, and rebuild with food. And it creates a book on the border – life and death, laughter and grief, childhood and adults.
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Madame Figaro: Can you tell us a few words from the origin of this book?
Amber Chalumea.- When I was seventeen, my best childhood friend fell into a coma. Incredibly rare disease. If it has put it in the movie scenario, no one believed it. This is the first major crisis I had to manage when I started a preparatory lesson at the same time in Paris. It was a year of new features, tension, disorders, and sometimes to digest, I started writing small scenes in a third party, moving elements of reality, a character without me. I enjoyed the exercise that helped me to bring my thoughts in order and resist these feelings, new for me. My eighteen years I returned to this Google Doc to add texts that I allowed me to integrate into new experiences in the initial narrative framework. So I started with the real point that I swallowed the artistic or other moments of my existence.
Animate Is it an initiative novel to stay adults?
It’s even the novel Myself Transition to ripe. But I am convinced that the transition to maturation can happen at any time, and even for adults, accurately. All the characters in this book live one, including Simon’s parents. The novel describes the youth on a certain parameter, for example, I hope that this framework is not ruled out, and that this book is about this childhood outfit. No matter what we have grown, regardless of the studies we have done, we all lived for some.
What do you mean by that?
Before seventeen years I was happy to have a happy childhood and adolescence, I was protected, and I thought it was a norm, even if there were some unsuccessful people who knew drama, accidents, mourning. When my friend fell into a coma, I changed the other from a camp, and I reviewed the people I knew new glasses in shoes. And of course, what I thought it was the norm, in no case. This friend found when he was younger his father’s body, who committed suicide. Someone lost his mother, and the other had to fight dependence, and my friend went to children’s sexual abuse, which inspired me the image of Korah. I went out of the age of seventeen since I was a child, but this friend came out of a child much earlier. My friends who grew up gay, and who also inspired the heroes of the book, and they could leave childhood because I was because they were refused before me and doubted.
All your main characters have a secret and everyone will grow. We can say that the book was built around the injuries that we learn to overcome.
Yes, everyone is facing a search, personal challenge, Diane and Korea to the parents who will find themselves, which will be able to overcome it. And I liked that there is a missing nature, Simon is actually very active. Falling in a coma, he creates an explosion, which will put from each of the characters to his secret. It is under his leadership that each other’s problems are revealed and must be resolved. There is really something about repair. Diane, for example, maintains the whole Animate A kind of dialogue with Simon, and when he reveals his belongings, he reveals things about himself and understands what kind of friend he is. He who has so much difficulty has his favorite and acceptance, finally succeed. In the same way, it is lost when he decides to talk about the victims of sexual violence, a decisive action in his trajectory. Imagine his friend, ready to listen to him.
You also show a nice art knife – During the evening, Diane is more “consisted of the note of the costs of Patrick Balkan” …
I grew up with the parents who have this type of humor (writer and journalist Laurent Chaluma and Ariel Sarachko, a length of the orignal canal creation). Indication) I think it was to make me up. I do not repeat their punishments, I make mine. In any case, to tell the world to tell the world, to turn the everyday life into a daily life to turn into funny jokes. My father does so much more than me, moreover, he drives the cursor to the most. He is a fanatic michel ayiardd and has grown perfectly with this love of sentences, TONTONS FLINGUNERSA number of, I believe that his father was King of Jargin ‘punches … And then it was a culture that I found this genius of his cynical jokes. Chandler’s “One Plates” FriendsDaria, Daria, from the same name of MTV, English humor … I think it’s huge configuration to my living shape, especially after them.
Why are you titled this novel? Animate ?
These are the last words of the text. As soon as I wrote the end scene I didn’t have to write at the end because this book had construction FrankensteinI knew the title was there. Someone says she shines out of their absence. I would say that Simon helps his absence. We learn our tastes, we learn our loves, we learn our secrets, which, paradoxically, make him very alive. On the contrary, his loved ones, sometimes hitting sadness with sadness, are more and less and have to learn to become again. Thus, we have a porous, porous border between very living absence and absence.
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Live, Amber Chalumeau, Ed. Stock, 298 pages: 20.90 euros.
Source: Le Figaro
