Should we be afraid of words? The Lost Children’s Club, novel by Rebecca Lighieri published by POL at the start of the school year and in the running for the Goncourt des lycéens, is accused of“incitement to debauchery” by parent associations. The author readily agrees, her novel can be “disturbing”. In fact, Rebecca Lighieri – the pseudonym under which Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam signs her dark novels – does not write “intended” for one audience or another. For thirty years, she has been building a literary work in touch with contemporary utopias and their excesses.
His words contain a demanding language, sometimes crude and subversive. The high school students who have it in hand, handpicked, will be accompanied in their reading by their teachers and will be able to discuss it with the authors. Let’s trust them to grow from this – and show us a path: last year, the preference of high school students went to sad tiger, by Neige Sinno, a story of incomparable literary force, and sometimes unbearable violence…
Another piece of news sheds more light on the debate on the vulnerability of young people to the brutality of pornographic content. French justice has just ordered the blocking of pornographic sites due to the lack of control of the age of users. A small victory in the fight against this generational scourge: 2.3 million minors visit pornographic sites every month. When we know that one in three young people never read, let alone novels, it is a safe bet that few of them will delve into the more than 500 pages of the Lost Children’s Club to form their own idea of the content of the few paragraphs in question…
