Meeting - Marie-Hélène Lafon's ABCs

MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAFON'S ABC
with Marie-Hélène Lafon, accompanied by Régis Lejonc for the drawing

Marie-Hélène Lafon's work is inspired by Cantal, a rural world, a first-world country from which she has never broken away, taking advantage of the distance imposed by
Paris (where she studied and where she recently completed her career as a professor of classical literature) to create tension in all her books. Her books intertwine these landscapes, their memories, and the people who inhabit them and sometimes leave them. Her language, romantic, intense, and precise, attentive to bodies and silences, to the light of places and their darkness, conveys the stories of their lives.
Marie-Hélène Lafon said of writing: "It still has to be a little bit of an adventure." We will return to these adventures in this long interview, accompanied by drawings by Régis Lejonc created before our eyes through a new alphabet book.

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