Marie Nimier.

Book, Book of Roger Nimier, Queen of silence (2004 Medici award), woven rare memories and impressions that this father disappeared when he was 5 years old, Marie Nimer offered him to a colleague. The dark side of the queen, where the author Blue Hope Go background. It is his mother, and their relationship nodes that this work is punctuated with many documents: childhood writing, photos, posters, etc. – What is the art book as much as the history of the Barbar’s love?

MEDIME FIGARO A number – how much The dark side of the queen It is an extension The queen of silence.
Marie Nimier. – It all started with a journalist’s question two years after the issue Queen. “What to do if you had to rewrite your last book?” Then came the idea of ​​the dark side, the hidden side. All that has not been said, not on his father, but on the nature of the Philgration, Mother. My mother has only raised three children, and I could only want to defend her in my history at the moment. And then, time passing and relationships become difficult, even very difficult, I started making notes by accepting this other point of view. There was a lot of violence on the father Queen of silence, But then it was less likely to be more than today, lighting changed … The characters of the two novels are dancing together, but in one second Roger Nimer was transformed into another. The view is moving, we buy a young woman from a small girl. It was a matter of silence next to my father, the rare parts he left me, and on my mother, on the contrary, the avalanche of the words, which could not erase the cruelty of the past. And less.

The dark side of the queen There are two temporaries. You first have the impression that your mother is alive …
Most text was written when it was. He would not be published during his lifetime, if only because of the confidentiality revealed there, but he ended five or six years ago and was given to my publisher. I was so fragile when I didn’t know who would die first, my mother or me. I was in good health, but I was convinced that I could leave him before him and that this book existed. So he had to stay somewhere in Gallimard. And then I’m not dead, so I moved this text to the mother’s disappearance. This text includes things I could no longer write today. The things we don’t write when people died and that I kept because it was something. Thus, there is a decline and, at the same time, those present, present present, the present ten years ago.

You have not solved paternal egmum in the heart Queen of silence, He asked you this question to the postcard (“What does the queen of silence say?) By writing and writing this book.
Its mystery today looks more interesting than its formula, but you are right thanks to the letters that I received after the publication Queen of silence, Family history can no longer say in the same way. I think about a particular letter so kindly, a woman who says she has read a lot of suffering Queen of silence, And wants to let me know that I have another family … just to think, I have tears in my eyes.

Writing, doesn’t it break a double taboo? From the secret of this family and difficult love, barbed wire, your mother.
I find the lack of vocabulary, and there must be many other conditions to assign love. We must always qualify for him to coat with other words … Love that my mother was for me, yes, it was well found. In his stories, he was still affected, even if most of the time was the voices. The book is given some questions that prevent prior ideas on mourning. I had already solved this topic in the previous novel, Little sister, Who released the death of a beloved as a release? There is also this idea that is widely used that if relations are not restored or for the disappearance of peaceful parents, we will depend on it until the end of its existence. The dark side of the queen opens other ways. Sometimes, and we are returning to the father’s question, which is not resolved, is not for good reasons. The scripture is there with its images, his ellipses, his dives to tell these complex things.

The love that my mother was for me was a barbar

Marie Nimier

And who is the queen, this time, you or the mother?
This is a question that Juliet Grankco asked me (:For which Marie Nimer wrote from songs from songs, editor post) When we talked about this current book … Taguhi, this and I and her. An impossible separation story. In fact, my mother couldn’t bear it that I could grow up and no longer be the little girl in Plasticine, who swallowed her eyes. He showed me all the signs of love without love, like a plant we throw water next to his basket. I don’t keep it against him, what will it be? It’s a waste of time. He often spoke about his mother who did not care about him, the father, who prevented him from learning …

Is such an autobiographic work scripture different from your novels for you?
Not so much. It’s the same job. In both cases, we spend hours to build, build sentences, structure development, underground connections, which tell about the words responsible for history. Create connections. Disassemble the evidence. Of course, I was very marked in silence, I like this way without saying that the Lord, the shifts of voice, offer us. Double understanding, double calm, I was in good school … So I work the same for all my texts, autobiographies, intelligence, falcors. It will not happen for the novel, which is easier to stay away from the distance.