Zindigī-yi Ārām: Persiska (Farsi) 1402

Francine Veyrenattes tells us – or remembers – how her brother Nicolas fought to the death with his uncle Jérôme; what discreet and secure guard the family mounts around the dying person; how the freedom that Nicolas thus conquered leads him to love, then to death. At the same time, Francine is also led to love, and the parents to madness. The impassivity of the narrator quickly makes a strange sound. That indifference is so necessary, that it so obviously follows the root of things, makes her furious, inconsolable. Indifferent, she is the only driving force behind the drama. She alone wanted it and created it. She doesn't know it herself. She becomes more and more aware of this as she tells the story. This discovery even becomes the real subject of the book – which is the progressive purification of a soul – and its main attraction. We promise ourselves: “We will have a peaceful life. » From the heart of great fatigue, we finally want to let ourselves be loved and loved. And have children. This life is sincere. These children will be posthumous. We want happiness. It’s that we’re finally simple. We are finally dead. It’s that we can finally live “the same as everyone else, the most to be pitied, the same as everyone else”.