Patrick Autréaux

Dans la vallée des larmes (EO)

In the Valley of Tears (OE)

First Edition
April 16, 2009
Narrative
120 pages
118 × 185 mm
13 €
9782070123889
978-2-0701-2388-9

“Blanche” collection

																Patrick Autréaux, Dans la vallée des larmes (EO)
																Patrick Autréaux, Dans la vallée des larmes (EO)

“The almost ecstatic state, this void of extreme density, which I experienced just after I was told I had cancer, was the most surprising stage of my adventure. No state of love, no event, no other journey gave me the opportunity to experience this exoticism engendered by the fear of knowing I was condemned: an exoticism that rejects at the edge of any singularity, under threat, on the verge of fragmentation.
What exactly had I experienced? I am at a loss to say. Fear, willpower, all desire was suspended; I experienced a void that filled me completely. Since I was not dead, I had to belong to the community of the twice-born.”

The author

Patrick Autréaux was born in 1968. He practiced emergency psychiatry until 2006. Author of a dozen books and numerous articles on art and literature, he lives between Paris and Cambridge, USA. In residence at Boston University in 2018 and 2019, he created his literature seminar: “Through a writer’s eye”.

April 16, 2009
Narrative
120 pages
118 × 185 mm
13 €
9782070123889
978-2-0701-2388-9

“Blanche” collection