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Beyond the Flames

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A woman, following a visit to Auschwitz, meditates on the possibility -- or impossibility -- of continuing to live, following the killing of millions in death camps. The subject is not new. But Louise Dupré makes this horror present again, while at the same time emphasizing the need to go beyond it. Being a parent, as is the anonymous "you" in the book, is to both witness this horror and to raise children who are unaware of this terror, whose innocence seems to make perfect victims of them. It is to hold a child "above the flames," desperately seeking to protect them and, through them, to save ourselves.

Your poem rose / from hell / one morning as words surprised you / paralyzed / in the middle of a verse

104 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2014

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Louise Dupré

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Louise Dupré est une poète, romancière et professeure québécoise née en 1949 à Sherbrooke. Elle est participante de longue date au festival littéraire Metropolis bleu. Elle a enseigné la littérature au Cégep de Thetford et à l'Université du Québec à Montréal.

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34 reviews9 followers
May 24, 2022
Lu en 2019.
Une exploration du rapport entre l’innocence et l’enfance. Un recueil qui m’a sincèrement marqué.
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2,961 reviews86 followers
August 9, 2023
Ce recueil a moins marché pour moi car je l'ai trouvé répétitif.
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74 reviews
February 2, 2025
"c'était après ce voyage
dont tu es revenue

les yeux brûlés vifs
de n'avoir rien vu

rien
sinon des restes

comme on le dit
d'une urne
qu'on expose

le temps de se recueillir
devant quelques pelletées de terre

car la vie reprend
même sur des sols
inhabitables

la vie est la vie

et l'on apprend à placer
Auschwitz ou Birkenau
dans un vers

comme un souffle
insupportable "

4.5/5 > par une fan inconditionnelle du triptyque auquel appartient ce livre
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