#Marie-Aude Murail

[puzzyrka]

okay but what about a crossover in which a fourteen-year-old boy prodigy with leukemia is treated by a lame and harmful doctor?

[les-toupies-h]

Marie-Aude Murail

[aforcedelire]

Oh, boy !, Marie-Aude Murail

Dans le genre « On va chouiner », ce roman il se place là. Oh, boy ! nous raconte l’histoire de la famille Morlevent et de ses enfants particuliers. Siméon, 14 ans et surdoué ; Morgane, 8 ans, la sœur effacée et oubliée ; Venise, 5 ans, celle que tout le monde s’arrache. Siméon, Morgane et Venise, livrés à eux-mêmes après que leur père ait disparu et que leur mère se soit suicidée. Atterris en foyer, ils se sont jurés que rien ne les séparerait. Mais voilà que deux personnes, très différentes en tous points, se battent pour les recueillir. Deux personnes qui se détestent…

Entre parents morts, enfants placés en foyer, secrets et révélations de famille et maladie, ce roman ne nous épargne rien. Et après ça, la littérature de jeunesse c’est tout beau tout rose, tout de papillons et de paillettes ! J’ai bien chouiné, moi. Et j’ai beaucoup aimé cette histoire ! Dès les premiers chapitres, j’étais dedans. J’ai adoré Siméon, son courage, sa résilience à toute épreuve et sa luminosité. J’ai aussi beaucoup aimé Barthélémy, ce demi-frère disparu qui refait surface et qui est complètement à la ramasse.

Par contre, même si j’ai globalement beaucoup aimé cette histoire, ça se sent que c’est plus tout jeune. De ce que j’ai compris ça a été publié en 1997, et ça nous permet de nous rendre compte que la société a bien évolué depuis ! Barthélémy est gay, et visiblement ça pose beaucoup de soucis à plusieurs autres personnages, et moi j’ai pas trop aimé la façon dont il était décrit et perçu. Il est fantasque, mais de là à balancer des vacheries qui flirtent avec l’homophobie, c’était pas trop la peine (après, encore une fois, 1997). Pareil pour Aimée, la voisine qui se fait battre par son mari. On en revient à Bart et son inadaptation sociale, mais niveau empathie et soutien on a fait carrément mieux ! Autant j’ai beaucoup aimé l’histoire de cette famille qui affronte vents et marées et qui reste malgré toute cette merde soudée et aimante, autant certains discours de certains personnages m’effarent et j’espère que les plus jeunes qui liront ça prendront ça avec beaucoup de pincettes.

Malgré tout, beaucoup de bons sentiments, un peu de pathos, et une très belle histoire d’amour entre frères et sœurs. (Et un peu de pleurs aussi)

29/11/2024 - 30/11/2024

[scienceoftheidiot]

Thinking about the previous post I reblogged about parents allowing teenagers to read books with heavy adult topics

You guys weren't GIVEN heavy books when you became a teenager? Like

My mom gave me Go Ask Alice (L'Herbe Bleue) and my childhood friend was given Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Moi, Christiane F., droguée, prostituée).

Our parents reasoning was "Better you read that before you get into it". My parents included descriptions of their own experiences with drugs and their friends during the 70s. You can laugh all you want but I've smoked pot a couple of times in my life, cigarette has never gotten a hold on me, and I'm currently really lowering my alcohol consumption to less than once a month. Not saying this is all linked to that, but. Yeah. Really not interested in that deal.

My French teacher when I was 13 told me to read the adult books my then favourite childhood author wrote - of which one of them became my new favourite book. This book's overall mystery is built around an occult group of child molesters who operated during the occupation of France by the Nazis, and the whole story in present time deals with bombs, suicidal bombers, and there's a couple of (non explicit) sex scenes (of which the first one stops because of the impotency of the main character). It's a VERY funny book and yet also it has all this. I still love it to bits even if it's a product of its time (late 80s).

I'm not saying everyone is encouraged to read adult books but in my case they were certainly NOT put out of reach and we were told to try them.

Also "YA" wasn't really a thing (à part Marie Aude Murail ? J'imagine ?).

Just.

Thinking.

[babeluda]

I mostly keep tumblr stuff to reblogs, fandom stuff, and the occasional salty opinion, but my best friend just called and told me he has leukemia, and I'm so scared I'm going to suck at supporting him, and I need to tell... the internet, apparently.

I'm so practical-minded. He's in a sterile room so visits are complicated right now, and I could only ask 'do you need anything'. He said it's what everyone asks. I had to text him after his call because I totally forgot to check if he wanted me to tell the news to others. (He did, I have two of our friends on my list.)

I don't know how to help with grief, or anger, or fear. This sucks.

He heard about it in the worst way possible; he was being switched hospitals for extra testing and the ambulance paramedic told him it was strange, bringing over someone a year younger than her who has leukemia. No one had thought to tell him before, I guess because they didn't have the final-complete diagnosis yet.

It all sucks and I feel disconnected, like my brain is not computing what this means. I want to crack jokes about the fact that I'm sorry I ribbed him so much for being a hypochondriac for as long as I've known him. I want to tell him we better go to the Isles of Scilly this summer, even if I've been calling them the Isles of Shitty each time he brought it up before. He's 31 years old. I want to give him Marie-Aude Murail's Oh boy in which a teen has leukemia but things are still alright in the end.

Everything is inappropriate and I don't know what to do with myself. I only know I want to help.

[nietp]

hm je viens de découvrir à quoi ressemblent marie-aude murail et elvire murail aka les queens du game du roman jeunesse à mon époque j'ai lu tous leurs trucs en bibli municipale euhhh they fuck seriously! amélie nothomb WHO?

[odnagnisul]

100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):

1984, George Orwell ✅

A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman

Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅

Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅

Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon

Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï

A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola

Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster

Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell

Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray

Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅

Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅

Chéri, Colette

Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski

De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens

Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅

Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅

Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅

Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés

Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

Dune, Frank Herbert ✅

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅

Fondation, Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅

Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling

Home, Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami

L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅

L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde

L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅

L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅

L'écume des jours, Boris Vian

L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera

La condition humaine, André Malraux

La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils

La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins

La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol

La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅

La nuit des temps, René Barjavel

La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅

La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅

Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle

Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2

Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅

Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux

Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna

Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov

Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley

Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco

Le parfum, Patrick Süskind

Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅

Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅

Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅

Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel

Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅

Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅

Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton

Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅

Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis

Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë

Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅

Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅

Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de

Beauvoir

Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff

Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1

Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May

Alcott

Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary

Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅

Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅

Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅

Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell

Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen

Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth

Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie

Pilgrim, Timothy Findley

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅

Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin

Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅

Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy

Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard

Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono

Une prière pour Owen, John Irving

Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant

Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck

Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅

Total : 37/100

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Français me manque bien. Il y a quelques années que j'ai pris des leçons et je ne veux pas l'oublier. Tu as quelques recommandations des romans ou poésies? Peut-être romans c'est meilleur parceque je voudrais tout simplement me rappeler beaucoup de mots et lire des dialogues. Bisous 💜

c'est un peu compliqué parce que presque tous mes livres en français sont chez ma mère et ici je lis majoritairement des livres en anglais / écrits par des anglophones . aussi malheureusement je lis majoritairement de la non-fiction pour mon travail, plutôt des livres sur des artistes etc et des livres de sociologie et d'histoire je sais pas si c'est exactement ce que tu cherches. ce que je peux te recommander c'est des livres plutôt simples à lire peut-être destinés à un public plus jeune (comme je connais pas ton niveau de français) et quelques classiques que tu connais sûrement mais que j'ai personellement aimé

comme livres pour plus jeunes j'ai toujours aimé miss charity de mary-aude murail je trouve ça tellement dommage que ça n'a jamais été traduit en anglais de la même autrice j'ai lu plein de fois le tueur à la cravate évidemment c'est moins pour enfants mais c'est facile à lire

quand j'étais plus jeune je lisais presque exclusivement des romans historiques donc je peux te recommander la série garin troussebœuf de evelyn brisou-pellen / les orangers de versailles d'annie pietri / les colombes du roi soleil d'anne-marie desplat-duc je pense pas que c'est de la grande littérature mais j'ai des très bons souvenirs avec ces livres. toujours en romans historiques en ce moment je lis les rois maudits de maurice druon ça a été recommandé par une de mes profs

comme classiques que j'ai lu et que j'ai aimé je peux recommander pagnol c'est à dire la gloire de mon père, le château de ma mère et le temps des secrets et la comtesse de ségur (les malheurs de sophie etc) / l'étranger de camus / antigone de anouilh / les misérables et notre dame de paris de hugo / les liaisons dangereuses de laclos / on ne badine pas avec l'amour de musset / la petite faudette et la mare au diable de sand / quasiment tout molière / quasiment tout maupassant et je peux te déconseiller zola montesquieu balzac et voltaire que je ne peux pas supporter <3

[jeanchrisosme]

Prendre soin de soi. C'est si difficile quand on manque le désir de vivre.

Marie-Aude Murail

[hurlumerlu]

Very funny that when Marie-Aude Murail intoduces Barthelemy in Oh Boy! she beats you over the head with the fact that this is is a very selfish and flawed young man who will have to grow and change a lot over the course of the book but itty-bitty me just went “oh. so this is the ideal man”

[littleragondin]

I was tagged by @howdydowdy ages ago (quite literally gosh), thank you a lot! Even if it was incredibly hard to pick up only 8 books oh my god, the show version felt like a walk in the park in comparison lol

8 shows books to get to know me in no specific order

- "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire, illustrated by Henri Matisse. I got this book when I was maybe 10? I liked Baudelaire already (I was a very festive child I swear), and I loved drawing and art, so my mother - who loves book as much as I do - got it for me. It cemented my love of poetry, I think. Baudelaire is still a favorite of mine, and Matisse's illustrations just enhanced the experience.

"Alors, ô ma beauté! dites à la vermine Qui vous mangera de baisers, Que j'ai gardé la forme et l'essence divine De mes amours décomposés!" - from "Une Charogne"

- "The Belgariad" (and "The Mallorean" that follows) by David & Leigh Eddings. I have always loved fantasy stories, and this one has been with me for a long time. It's very classic fantasy, Chose One goes on a quest with the help of A Group of Prophecy Designated Companions but it's terribly well done, the characters are lovely, and it's very funny.

Silk: Not to worry, Urgit. Hettar came all the way through the streets of your capital, and he didn't kill even one of your subjects. Urgit: Remarkable. You've changed, Lord Hettar. You're reputed to be a thousand feet tall and to wear a necklace of Murgo skulls. Hettar: I'm on vacation. - from one of The Mallorean books

- "My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" by Nagata Kabi. There had to be some illustrated work of course. Sometimes you read a story that resonates so much with you it kind of makes your body vibrates - like an echo that keeps responding to itself. This story did that to me, and the art (sketchy, nervous, simple but efficient) truly enhances the feelings.

“Maybe the times I couldn't move were the times I needed to take better care of myself.”

- "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Another one from when I was a child. I had an abridged version read by French actor Gérard Philippe, and I would listen to that CD all the time. Then my mom (her again) got me the book, and I have read and reread it regularly since then. I think I like different things about it now than when I was a child, of course, but the sadness of the Narrator at the end makes my heart aches the same way it did back when I read the book sitting under my desk at 12.

"Et quand tu sera consolé (on se console toujours) tu seras content de m'avoir connu. Tu seras toujours mon ami. Tu auras envie de rire avec moi. [...] Ca sera comme si je t'avavais donné, au lieu d'étoiles, des tas de petits grelots qui savent rire..."

- "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman. Particularly "Chivalry" and "Murder Mysteries", respectively first and last of the collection. I love a great many of Gaiman's works, so he had to go on the list. I picked this one because it sparked my love and appreciation of the short story format. Plus, I love magic hidden in the mundane (like in Chivalry), and I love retelling of religious stories (like in Murder Mysteries), so it's also a good intro to that I think.

"I feel dirty. I feel tarnished. I feel befouled. Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments." - from "Murder Mysteries"

- "Oh boy!" by Marie-Aude Murail. She was my favorite author when I was a child/teen, I devoured everything she offered (the Nils Hazard series was such a huge part of my childhood). I picked this one because I loved it very, very much - I remember breaking a friendship because I lent it to a girl who never gave it back to me, lying that her mom bought it for her and that it was not mine. It's a story about grief, about siblings love, about facing adversity together and coming out from the other side, maybe a little worse for wear but still here. All things I still cherish very much in stories today that I'm the adults' age and not the teens anymore.

"Chapitre 13 qui n'existe pas pour ne pas porter la poisse aux Morlevent."

- "This is how you lose the time war" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Sometimes you start a book the way you absent-mindedly brush your fingers against the surface of water, and sometimes that water swallows you whole but you don't drown, the water just fills you. I closed that book with all its words left in me, I think, and I had to catch my breath again. It's about war, and it's about love, time, and choices and sacrifices. It's a small book, all in all, but it took me some time to come back down from it. I think mostly, it's here because it touched me, and it's a good example of why I like words. Also it's epistolary, a format I deeply, deeply love.

"But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me."

- "The Discworld" by Terry Pratchett. I know this one is, like, the worst cheat because it's more than 40 books and I just went and gave them all to you as one. But I can't have them off the list! Not a year goes by without me re-reading some of them, and while I do have favorites they all hold a big place in my heart. The whole collection (in French and in the Atalante edition which is, like, very pretty) was my mom's gift for obtaining my PhD even if I already owned nearly all of them in either French or English, so I guess that gives you an idea of how much I love them.

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." - from "A hat full of sky"

I won't tag ppl because I tagged a lot for the actual show version, and I don't know how much my mutuals would like to do it, but if you do PLEASE tag me so I can see your lists <3

[les-toupies-h]

« Mon travail, c'est donner des personnages à aimer. » Marie-Aude Murail

[notsodumbww2captain]

It’s all Marie Aude Murail’s fault.

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

[julietsha]

Miss Charity t.2 d'Anne Montel, Loïc Clément et Marie-Aude Murail (2023)

[lettieriletti]

Oh, boy! di Marie-Aude Murail

Oh, boy! di Marie-Aude Murail

I Morlevent sono tre: un maschio e due femmine. Orfani da poche ore. Hanno giurato di non separarsi mai. Siméon Morlevent, 14 anni. Smilzo per non dire emaciato. Occhi marroni. Segni particolari: superdotato intellettualmente, si accinge a preparare la maturità. Morgane Morlevent, 8 anni. Occhi marroni. Orecchie a sventola. Prima della classe e molto attaccata al fratello. Segni particolari: gli…

[culturevsnews-blog]

Sauveur & Fils - Saison 7 de Marie-Aude Murail (Auteur), Constance Robert-Murail (Auteur)

Achat : https://amzn.to/433GCWg En trois ans, bien des choses se sont passées au 12, rue des Murlins. Chronique : “Sauveur & Fils – Saison 7” de Marie-Aude Murail et Constance Robert-Murail nous plonge une fois de plus dans l’univers attachant et complexe de Sauveur Saint-Yves, psychologue. Dans cette septième saison, le contexte de la pandémie de Covid-19 vient semer la pagaille dans la vie…