Mère et fils chez François Weyergans dans Trois jours chez ma mère
Mother and Son in François Weyergans' Three Days at My Mother's (Trois jours chez ma mère )

Summary/Abstract: This novel was rewarded with a Goncourt in 2005 – the same year it appeared at Grasset. A mother near the end of her physical strength (she falls in the garden and stays there for two days, rethinking her past life from afar) and a son, over 60 years old, who comes to live again at home, in order to regain his moral strength, lost along the way. This reciprocal examination leads the son to the ardently desired novel and the mother to a rebalance of the forces in relation to her son, a role she assumes with grace and wisdom. “I didn’t give you an end to your book, but I gave you a fall”, says the mother. A symbolic fall from maternal paradise to the (promised) land of literary glory.

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