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When Adélaïde’s parents find her mute and unable to explain why she is crying, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against “X” for sexual assault. Twenty-three years later, Adélaïde receives a call from the juvenile squad. In the spring of 2016, at the Paris city court, along with 18 other women, Adélaïde confronts the rapist who destroyed her life.
“You are nine years old. One Sunday in May, you return alone from the school party. A gentleman is following you. And then, absolute confusion. Year after year, you move through the night “.
A child, a stranger, a few minutes of brutal sexual abuse. A memory that defends itself against the unthinkable, burying the event at inscrutable depths. Time spent deepening the wound. And then the long, torturous emergence on the surface of repulsive and repressed details. For years, the author divided, without knowing why, between a “disgusting and treacherous body” and a “pure, living, happy spirit,” records with dramatic sincerity and poetic intensity her mental and physical adventure up to the moment of redemptive revelation. The writer turns through this shocking testimony a painful biographical event into a literary achievement.
The author captures amazingly the feelings of drowning, suffocation, weakness that domineer her. The issue is complicated, and Adélaïde Bon manages to avoid the trap of self-pity, dirt, gloom. And we, thanks to the power of her re-acquired words, become a body with her.
The author crosses a problematic path, penetrates the fog of oblivion with her violent, unbearable memories, rises to the heights of poetic insight, and finally reaches trouncer at that goal called healing, holding in her hands a precious literary trophy.
Adélaïde Bon’s book is an excellent example of how literature can tame woe.
Literature can subjugate woe. A book that contributes to the public interest, which we must force politicians, judges, and lawyers to read to understand the issue of rape at last.
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Adélaïde Bon
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