A cyclone comes to the city.
Locked in his house, the narrator looks out the window to see the wind and rain battering the houses and trees. Suddenly, he realizes that the old elm tree, in which he has been confiding for a long time, is threatened.
Then begins an inner plunge from uncertainty to terror, to the edge of vertigo, to a new beginning.
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), Thérèse of Lisieux (2017), 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)
