2024-01-27 03:58:56
Schizophrenia and genetics, In an ocean of grass, On the trail of Josef Mengele, Remembrance Sunday, Meeting the hidden people : here is the weekly literary selection.
Schizophrenia and genetics, a DNA of madness?
Psychiatry has long been a misunderstood specialty, full of mysteries and prejudices. Today, thanks to scientific research, doctors, patients and families are experiencing a biological revolution.
Through the example of schizophrenia, Boris Chaumette reveals how our DNA, through its multiple variations, can be at the origin of mental disorders. Genetic tests, accessible in consultation, open the way to better consideration of patients and their loved ones, to prevention and improved care, and even to better information for those around them. These new diagnostic and therapeutic methods offer a glimpse of a hopeful future.
Boris Chaumette is a lecturer at Paris Cité University, psychiatrist at GHU Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences (Sainte-Anne hospital), researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris (INSERM U1266 laboratory), and assistant professor at McGill University to Montreal.
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In an ocean of grass, a Pawnee family in the heart of America
They call themselves Cáhriksicáhriks, Men-of-Men. They are the Pawnees. This work is the first translation into French on this tribe; it is the work of Walter R. Echo-Hawk, member of the Kitkehahki Pawnee Band and president of the Pawnee Nation from 2020 to 2023. In these pages, Echo-Hawk traces his family’s history as far back as his memories go back up. Over ten generations, we follow the memory and destiny of a tribal lineage transmitted over the decades. The author writes from a subjective point of view, transcribing the thoughts and visions of these predecessors as if they themselves were expressing themselves directly. Through this story providing first-hand information from oral testimonies collected from members of his family, Echo-Hawk offers an indigenous vision of the history of the Pawnees until 2018. Terrible intertribal wars, arrival of the Spanish then the Americans, the reservations with their procession of humiliation and destitution throughout the 20th century even during and after the participation, precisely mentioned, of the Pawnees in the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But the story goes beyond the strict family framework and takes us to the heart of the history and life of the Pawnees from a distant mythological period, the matrix of their cosmogony and their Creation myth. It emanates a deep and sensitive evocation of aspects of their spiritual heritage via religious ceremonies, habits and customs and oral tradition because it is a story that takes place in the “World of Tiraáwaahat”, their Supreme Divinity, the Creator of the Ocean of Grass.
Born in 1946, Walter R. Echo-Hawk, chief of the Pawnee tribe, is a historian, legal practitioner and member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2015, Echo-Hawk was the first to be honored at the Scholar Lewis and Clark School. In 2018 he taught at the University of Hawaii-Monoa. He is the author of several works on Justice and Law.
On the trail of Josef Mengele
On May 20, 1982, the great reporter Hubert Lassier gave Paris Match, where he worked, a typescript recounting a meeting and interview with Josef Mengele, in Brazil. The fruit, according to him, of a ten-year hunt which finally came to fruition, in particular thanks to the help of Albert Spaggiari, a refugee in Argentina and having connections in far-right circles and former Nazis.
This report-interview was not published at the time. Was it because the famous weekly suspected a forgery (Mengele died in 1979, why offer this interview 3 years later?)? Or because the content of the interview is sometimes contrary to historical truth as established by the Nuremberg Tribunal? True or false, we chose to publish this text because it is captivating, both in terms of the hunt for Mengele and the interview given by the latter.
So, you will read either an unpublished historical interview with a sulphurous war criminal, or the brilliant hidden adventure novel by Lassier and Spaggiari. Your turn to judge…
Senior reporter at Paris Match then to VSDHubert Lassier died on December 15, 1995, in an attack which exploded the plane where he was traveling with the Tuareg leader Mano Dayak (who also died).
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Remembrance Sunday
Darragh McKeon returns with a powerful work that tells of the scars that history leaves on hearts and minds.
On a New York street, Simon collapses, having a violent epileptic seizure. He hadn’t done it for almost thirty years. While he awaits the operation that will bring relief to him, Simon understands that his own repair requires exploring the event that marked his life.
On 8 November 1987, during Remembrance Sunday, an IRA attack left eleven people dead and sixty-three injured in the town of Enniskillen. Simon was fifteen years old. He dreamed of fleeing this silent Ireland, marked by violence. On the other side of the border, another boy also dreamed of escaping his fate.
One will become a victim, the other will be an executioner, but both will carry the Northern Irish tragedy within them…
Born in 1979, Darragh McKeon grew up in the Midlands in Ireland. Passionate about theater, he directed a troupe, put on some twenty-five plays and traveled throughout Europe depending on the company’s commitments. At the same time, he wrote his first novel, Everything solid dissolves in air (Belfond, 2015, 10/18, 2016), noticed in the New York Times, translated into seven languages and winner of numerous literary prizes. Journalist, his articles regularly appear in the prestigious pages of The Independant, The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, The Kenyon Review. Remembrance Sunday is his second novel. Darragh McKeon now lives between Ireland and Barcelona.
Meeting the hidden people
Mannaz, a young Auvergne enthusiast of folklore, cultivates his passion for the imaginary worlds populating tales and legends from here and elsewhere. Equipped with her drawing materials and driven by a singular curiosity, she draws her inspiration from this fantastic universe full of magic.
A work taking the reader on a journey to the frontiers of reality through fabulous stories.
Once again RACAILLE supports an author in her first work.
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