History of a book. Thanks to the paternal archives, Caroline Lamarche draws up a history of industrial conquest and describes the evolution of the role of women.
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Children start by loving their parents. Then they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them, “said Oscar Wilde. We could assert from the exciting hybrid book the Asturian he deploys new fees this blastless aphorism, a quarter of a century after the first book of Caroline Lamarche, the day of the dog (midnight , 1996), who settled some family accounts. In the same way, however, that a perennial love then confused under judgment, forgiveness once reached does not fall within erasure, here, but of a long journey: even that the Asturian restitutes, below the industrial epic of the Liege Ancestors of the laundry that tells this nourished story of archives on the history of Belgian steel and its ramifications across Europe, In particular in Spain, in the province of Asturias, on the website of Arnao, Fleuron of the European mining heritage.
Franco’s compromises
The intelligence of the writer starts at the service of the sensitive, and never the opposite, in the exploitation of a family of family archives where she plunged ten years after the death of his father, Last mining engineer with a long line. While the capitalist restructuring were linked, which family fortune had slipped to England following a wedding without descendants to the previous generation, Freddy Lamarche had arrived too late to do better than save not the furniture but The Spirit: By taking refuge in a passion for the archives he has carefully collected, commented, organized, and who are of an undeniable historical wealth (as well as exchanges between spouses at the time of long-term trips For example, there is a correspondence with General Lyautey – 1854-1934 – then general resident in Morocco). Stripping them no without a form of filial piety, his daughter could only collide with the “blind angle” of the family legend who has bathed his childhood, “she said, that of an industrial conquest based on a paternalism of the best Aloi: a legend that the repression of the great Spanish strikes prelude to the civil war, then of formidable compromises with Francoism.
At the “World of Books”, the autore gladly entrusts having “a lot doubted” along this very long breath site. She had to quickly give up her first idea of ”realizing [her] her own quest by pulling this story on the fictional side”. “So much what was already” written “was rich, moving, demanding sometimes considerable efforts to decipher, transcribing the archives, but also absorb them, link them to their historical context. So I could not join my Models, “she adds, referring to WG Seald works or Javier Cercas. She found again “forced to set up a narrative device that did not look like anything that [she had] read”. In fact, “neither history book nor novel”, the Asturian is an object that has benefited from the “great plasticity” acquired by the lattice by force to comply with the necessary orders to ensure the daily – so of a Beautiful book on the city of Mons who has allowed him to measure the talent of the graphic designer Martine Gillet, to whom she appealed to organize the layout of the many documents and photographs.
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