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Patrick Autr茅aux - L'茅cole buissonni猫re, a doctor takes his leave... Research Seminar | Thursday 27th April, O鈥橰ahilly Building 1.24, 4pm

20 Apr 2023

Prompted by his work as a doctor, and by his own experience of illness, Patrick Autr茅aux set out in search of what is 鈥榯rue鈥�. Literature was his chosen route. Through writing, he attempts to find a form for the 鈥榝lesh of the world鈥�. And to find an answer to the question of care. If he writes, it鈥檚 in order to treat that for which there is no cure.   

Patrick Autr茅aux (born March 14, 1968) is a French writer who has held appointments as a writer-in-residence at Boston 深夜亚洲福利久久 (2018鈥�2019) and as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018). After training in medicine and anthropology, he practised as an emergency-room psychiatrist in Paris and started writing poetry and contemporary art reviews before publishing fiction. 

An early experience with cancer led him to write three books on the topic of illness: Dans la vall茅e des larmes, Soigner and Se survivre. Dans la vall茅e des larmes relates the experience of a thirty-five year old doctor coming to terms with a diagnosis of lymphoma.

Soigner is about a patient in remission who resumes his previous role of doctor and cares for his dying grandfather Se survivre consists of seven meditations on the state of illness. 

Since these early writings, his work has developed in new directions: a hidden family drama that unravels during the expulsion of an undocumented person in France (Les Irr茅guliers), the agitation of a tree shaken by a storm as a metaphor for the loss of a loved one (Le grand vivant) and a narrative retracing Autr茅aux鈥檚 personal journey between medicine and literature (La Voix 茅crite). 

In 2016, Autr茅aux published with the Diderot Institute a polemical take on the terrorist attack, 鈥淛e suis Charlie, un an apr猫s鈥�, written for a round table at Harvard 深夜亚洲福利久久 and Boston 深夜亚洲福利久久.  

His first novel In the Valley of Tears has been translated into English by Eduardo Febles and published in 2019 at Unconscious in Translation Books.  

He was nominated for the Prix D茅cembre and Prix Femina for his novel Quand la parole attend la nuit (Verdier, 2019)