“The doll house”, from Florence Hirigoyen: play memory dolls

History of a book. To recover the removal memories of the incest that she has been a child victim, Florence Hirigoyen designed, for the first book, a backwine novel-photo.

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Florence Hirigoyen was 4 years old the first time his father violated him. From this act repeated thereafter several times, it could have drawn a written testimony to the first person or self-care. It is for a rather unusual genre that she opted: the novel-photo, narrative fashion in vogue when she was a child, especially in sentimental magazines.

Speech therapist in the Vosges, having never published until then, the 52-year-old, accentuated the impression of “temporal jump” by playing his kindest, not by comedians, but by Dolls seeming out of an attic. His book, the dollhouse, jostles the reader by his formal singularity. The modesty of the means used refers to the tangibility of a crime with irreparable damage, incest.

Deep traumatic amnesia has long inhibited Florence Hirigoyen. Teenager, she knew intimately that she had been raped, but without being able to activate her memory: “It was as if I had no more memories, does she tell the” books world “. I was persuaded, suddenly, to be crazy. “The transition to adulthood does nothing:” I thought what had happened to me was my fault, “she continues, before evoking the figure of This father engineer in the steel, dead in 2015, “absolute leader” at home and “typical patriarchal model”.

“It’s you the victim”

On the facts, committed in a bathroom, the victim holds only the essentials today: “He was very stressed of nature and had to be in a frightful voltage situation, because of his work without doubt. He unloaded from that against me. I was at his feet, I served as a valve. “

/Media reports.