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Alzheimer's disease is scary. For everyone. This novel, written by a doctor, invites you to discover the wrongly demonized world of the "retirement home", or EHPAD. Through the daily lives of the characters, we will perceive the human interactions that contribute to life. Because, if we die there, we also live there. Despite the disease. Despite oblivion. Despite death. In a very cleverly arranged fictional form, the author speaks with great humanity about this current scourge, and invites us to try to tame the difference it generates - because no one is safe from it. Read the first pages of...

"They are back. They have thrown themselves body and soul into their task as initiates: transmitting the words of the Master, betting on intelligence and heart and listening, helping, caring, singing, dancing until the end of the night, and in the morning it continues. The lost, the worried, the junkies, the crazy, the happy, the thirsty for knowledge, the hungry for meaning never give up. The disciples are as thin as marathon runners, they have fire in their eyes, they move in the middle of a swarm of people. It is hot everywhere, too hot, they are exhausted. One would...

“Towards the South, you you will have Granada, its stone walls where the day does not come, at hand left, the Bosphorus then arid plateaus planted with fig trees, and way over there on the right, Valparaiso, wrinkled by the sun and the salt. Three lands, three wounds. They won't be there for you anymore. open their door but you can enter without fear as long as you loved life and literature." Thus opens “In absentia », the new book by Jean-Louis Coatrieux, published this Friday, May 10 by Chemins de tr@verse (ebook version) and La Part Commune (paper version)....