The Sulcus, Valerie Mantle, Tripod, 272 p., 17 €.
a Few lines paving the way. In the last pages of his first book, Calm and quiet (The Tripod, 2016, which appears in pocket, collection ” Meteor “, 150 p., 9 €), that Valerie Mantle, a columnist at Charlie Hebdo between 2008 and 2013, devoted to the before and after-January 7, 2015, the author referred briefly to the figure of the journalist and writer Hrant Dink. Sentenced for ” insulting turkishness “, the activist of the Armenian cause, was assassinated by a nationalist six months later, on January 19, 2007, release of his newspaper, Agos – in French ” The Furrow “, the title of the new story of the writer, the journalist occupies the central role.
She had discovered this man, whose coffin had been followed up over eight kilometres by 100 000 people waving two placards, “We are all Hrant Dink” and “We are all armenians,” in reading Because they are armenians, Pinar Selek (Liana Lévi, 2015). An essay on genocide offered by relatives when, a few months after the attacks of January 2015, the young woman, born in 1985, installed since 2013 in Marseille, where she works as an editor, took the decision to move a time for France, in the direction of Istanbul. In this city, she had a few friends, a “lover Turkish” and hope to get out of the “French climate” while taking more and more place in the media space “of people who wanted to be more intelligent than emotion,” she says to the ” World of books “, referring to Who is Charlie ? (Threshold, in 2015), the anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, among other discourses that she did ” not want to hear “. They were unbearable to those who had lost loved ones, that Calm and quiet…
