La voie écrite retraces a path between medicine and writing, accompanied by the friendship of an old man.
An intimate cartography that is not without recalling the autobiographical stories of spiritual authors.
Questioning the possible role of literature in uncertain times, this narrative probes what resists and supports us, and follows the trial and error of this moving subjectivity, without borders, that words know so well how to shape and erode at the same time.
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”.
In the Valley of Tears (OE) (2009), Soigner (2010), Le dedans des choses (2012), Se survivre (2013), Les irréguliers (2014), Le grand vivant (2016), Thérèse of Lisieux (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)
