PORTRAIT – Émilie Frèche’s brother had to overcome many prohibitions to write his first novel, which recounts the assassination of his grandfather by the FLN in Algiers.
So, on paper, there was no reason for him to write. It was like stepping onto a minefield. With a sister on his right, Émilie Frèchewho has been a fixture on the literary scene for years and intends to keep it that way. And, to her left, the crushing shadow of a loving, powerful father and authors he places above all else in his literary Pantheon. Like Camus. And in particular his book The First Man, whose title he has tattooed on his body. A way of branding himself. “ If there’s one book that symbolizes our family history, it’s this one. “
A family story in which the father figure is omnipresent, overwhelming. Just as it hovers over the pages of David Frèche’s first novel, aptly titled Un day, there will be no more fathers (Editions du Rocher). A book with strong autobiographical overtones, in which the narrator follows in the footsteps of his paternal grandfather, murdered in the middle of the street in Algiers in 1957…
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