Rebeka Warrior’s intimate struggle | EUROtoday

“EIt had seen a general practitioner who had obtained an appointment with the oncologist. We had never heard of this specialty. It went without saying that when you had cancer, you were going to see a cancerologist. We did not know that it was like cleaning women. Cancerologist, it was Has Been, it was no longer said. We say oncologist as we say surface technician. Pauline was so young. »» It is signed Rebeka Warrior and it is his first novel, that is to say his first long text. We specify “Long”, because question short texts, she has been sending the warrior for a long time! Rebeka Warrior, it is first of all an icon of the French electro-punk scene. Solo like DJ or in duet within Kompromat, Mansfield. Tya or sexy sushi. If you do not know, listen to “politeness”, single released last June, a minimalist parable where, in a falsely ingenuous voice, she tells the tragic adventures of a couple who settles near someone whom he would have been better than he never met: “You must be properly well mannered/ in any other case the neighbor punishes us. »»

Written to the uproot, to the satan, harsh, uncooked

But what is sweet, with Rebeka Warrior is that she, she does not care about politeness. She writes to the uproot, to the satan, harsh, uncooked, and hits every time. Because she does not make tons of it, as a result of she is honest. All lives presents itself because the syncopated narrative, within the first particular person, of a love story adopted by mourning and a return to life because of Zen and a double catch of Sapo, A shamanic psychotropper extracted from the pores and skin and the drool of a Mexican toad. All lives In the type of a newspaper, punctured with lists of phrases, quotes from Édouard Levé, Simone de Beauvoir and Hervé Guibert, letters written at – or obtained from – Pauline. Between all this, a voice rises to “Tell as you go loopy as you strategy loss of life. Tell how arduous it’s to be a widow at thirty-nine years. As I haven’t got the extent. »» No fats. Grace. Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot

To uncover



The kangaroo of the day

Answer

All lives, by Rebeka Warrior (inventory, 288 p., € 20.90).

EXTRACT

“The journal didn’t say how one can measure its chakra stage. Certainly by placing a chakrameter within the ass. »»