Un soir, un auteur reçoit Raphael Enthoven

"My mother wasn't ready for the illness. You don't ask an albatross, weighed down by its wings, to fight a bull."
This is the story of a son accompanying his mother on the path of an incurable illness. It is the story of a pianist whose fingers are going numb, of a writer whose memory is fading as she loses her mind, and who fights against a neurodegenerative disease through music and scholarship. But it is also the story of everything, from a book to a melody, that survives disaster and defies misfortune.
This moving account is both a logbook of a shipwreck and a testament to a lost talent. With tenderness and lucidity, Raphaël Enthoven offers us a poignant text where the descent into hell calls for a return to grace.
Raphaël Enthoven is a philosophy professor and writer. He has taught philosophy at the most prestigious universities: Paris IV University, Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences Po.