Patrick Autréaux

Thérèse de Lisieux

La confiance et l’abandon

Thérèse of Lisieux

Trust and Abandonment
August 31, 2017
Anthology
96 pages
100 × 170 mm
6,50 €
9782757805510
978-2-7578-0551-0

“Points Sagesses »

																Patrick Autréaux, Thérèse de Lisieux
																Patrick Autréaux, Thérèse de Lisieux

Rather than a model, this young woman’s journey refers, beyond belief and dogma, to this journey to the confines of our singularity towards the other.

To read Thérèse is to listen to a being who abandons himself to destitution and allows himself to be tossed towards that holiness which makes the being porous to the world. Life in community, the failures of faith, the disease that gnaws: she goes through the trials like a little knight who arms himself from childhood and sticks to his “little way” to cross the unpredictable reliefs of the inner kingdom.
The quiet radicalism of her confidence is almost frightening; she looks like nothing, but she valiantly walks this frontier where man comes closest to human beings and compassion.

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”.

Infos

Thérèse of Lisieux or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897) is one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church and beyond. She left three autobiographical manuscripts that have been immensely successful.

Bibliography

In the Valley of Tears (OE) (2009), Soigner (2010), Le dedans des choses (2012), Se survivre (2013), Les irréguliers (2014), Le grand vivant (2016), La voie écrite (2017), In the Valley of Tears (2017), Quand la parole attend la nuit (2019), Pussyboy (2021), L’instant du toujours (2022), La Sainte de la famille (2022)

August 31, 2017
Anthology
96 pages
100 × 170 mm
6,50 €
9782757805510
978-2-7578-0551-0

“Points Sagesses »