In life, says the French writer Eric Reinhardt, “things do not happen as in the novels”, although in many cases confuse fiction and reality in its pages, as in “Love and forests”, which victim of male violence protagonist lives “adulterous six hours of light.”
Reinhardt soaked reality of a tragic reality, the abuse and violence suffered by many women, “all kinds of women,” says, to write his second novel is translated into Spanish, published by Alfaguara, which arrives at bookstores preceded success in France, where in addition to good reviews chose the Goncourt prize.
“The reality is almost always contradictory. When we look carefully life, especially that of others, we do not understand,” argues the writer in a conversation with Efe.
Equipped with a sensitivity “that appeals to women,” says Reinhardt – “it is undeniable that I have a feminine side,” he says, were the evidence, oral and written, some of its readers, victims the harassment of their partners, which prompted him to write this novel, starring Bénédicte Ombredane a “contemporary Madame Bovary”.
A young woman, in the mid-thirties, mother of two children, teacher, reading in the books -Find a table of salvation and married to a troubled man who will make your life hell. A life without love, sad, monotonous, extremely hard, cold, bland, dry, sinister …
Bénédicte Ombredane is one thing and its opposite. “An alloy of pride and submission, ambition and fear, fervor and resignation, boldness and withdrawal of narcissism and self-denial,” as described by Eric Reinhardt.
“It continues its maker a living person, especially in your dreams, in your head, in your mind rather than in reality. A woman without arms to face difficulties real world. A who does not like to fight, which does not like conflict. ”
Perhaps that is why her story of passionate love, real love with a man, Christian, who met through an Internet dating site, barely lasts six hours. “Six hours of happiness, brightness adulterous” notes Eric Reinhardt.
“This is a woman who has never previously cheated on her husband, and incapable of his rare moments of revolution, personal explosion, last, and allow him to build something real. It disgusts have a double life, “argues the writer.
From that moment, the daily life of the protagonist is “a relentless swirl and compact of guilt, pain, euphoria, uprising, remorse, joy, fear, joy, desire, arousal, bitterness, … “feelings” shout in her womb “constantly.
Editor of art books and collaborated with artists from different disciplines, including shoe designer Christian Louboutin is, Reinhardt believes that the “real problem” of women victims of male violence ” It is shame “they feel to talk about it.
Bénédicte Ombredanne as fictional as a real person. “It is a fusion of many women,” insists Eric Reinhardt, writing that searches “an aesthetic issue, first and foremost.”
“Create a work of art for me it has more weight,” says Reinhardt about writing. “That’s what matters most to me. That my books, in addition to power, have power, an aesthetic force. I want to tell stories that inspire me, to touch me, they get me. And if they are also useful for others, better.”
Account writer (Nancy, 1965) that many readers have asked how it is that this book is written as a man, for his deep knowledge of the soul and feeling of women, “who has known get into the skin of a woman “as effectively, but has no answer to that question.
“I have not written this book it assures a manner different from the above. All chapters of the novel in which I am putting Bénédicte I have written on your skin, as I do when a character is male. I’ve created what I am. In my universe, my sensitivity, my relationship with reality. ”
For the literature, he continues, “what is rich characters are constantly connected to their inner life, who live with sensibility. And they react, perhaps more than skin deep way, living situations.”
And that, perhaps, he acknowledges, “we find more women in the female characters, because men are more dumps out that inward”.
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