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A former psychiatrist has won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with her novel centred on the Spanish civil war. Lydie Salvayre’s book Pas Pleurer (Don’t Cry) saw off competition from, among others, the bestselling French author David Foenkinos, to win the coveted award. Salvayre, 66, whose parents were exiled republicans who fled Franco’s regime in Spain, grew up near the city of Toulouse in south-west France, speaking Spanish. She learned French after arriving at primary school. Her previous works have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for theatre productions. “I’m very happy and moved,” Salvayre told journalists after being named winner at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the annual award ceremony is traditionally held. Pas Pleurer was selected by the jury in the fifth round of voting by five votes against four for the novel Meursault Contre-enquête (Meursault, Counter-inquiry) by the Algerian columnist and novelist Kamel Daoud, who revisited Albert Camus’s celebrated work L’Étranger (The Outsider). The novel Charlotte by Foenkinos was favourite to win the Goncourt this year, with Daoud’s work close behind. Salvayre’s narrative interlaces the voice of her own mother recounting her experiences of the Spanish civil war with that of the rightwing French writer Georges Bernanos and is set in the summer of 1936. “We wanted to crown a novel of great literary quality and a book of very original writing, even if I regret there was sometimes a little too much Spanish [in it],” Bernard Pivot, the academy president, told journalists. As with previous winners, Salvayre received a symbolic prize of €10 (£7), but can expect the award to boost sales by at least 400,000 copies. In 2013, sales of Goncourt winner Pierre Lemaitre’s Au Revoir là-haut jumped from 30,000 to 620,000 according to his publisher, Albin Michel. The Prix Goncourt is given to the author of the “best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. It is named after Edmond de Goncourt, an author, critic and publisher, who willed that his estate be used to found the Académie Goncourt to present the annual award. Previous winners have included Marcel Proust for volume two of In Search of Lost Time, Simone de Beauvoir for The Mandarins, André Malraux for Man’s Fate, Marguerite Duras for The Lover, Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones, and Michel Houellebecq for The Map and the Territory. The first winner in 1903 was John-Antoine Nau, for his book Force Ennemie (Enemy Force), which was only translated into English in 2010. ISBN 13: 9782757854723. Prix Goncourt 2014 Bernanos était là. Il a tout vu. La répression franquiste à Majorque, la complaisance de l'Eglise face à la barbarie des Nationalistes, la terreur exercée contre les "mauvais pauvres". De la guerre civile, Montsé, elle, garde aujourd'hui un unique et radieux souvenir, celui de cet été 1936 ou, dans la ferveur libertaire, elle a rencontré André parmi les révolutionnaires de Barcelone. Deux récits s'entremêlent pour reconstruire cette Espagne en guerre, mais surtout ce qu'elle a laissé dans les coeurs des deux narrateurs. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Lydie Salvayre, est l'auteur de vingt romans, parmi lesquels La D�claration, La Compagnie des spectres (prix Novembre) et BW (prix Fran�oisBilletdoux). Ses livres sont traduits dans une vingtaine de langues. Certains ont �t� adapt�s au th��tre. Pas pleurer by Lydie Salvayre. This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Paris. Éditions du Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782021116199. In the fall of 2014, Lydie Salvayre’s novel Pas pleurer (Don’t cry) received the Prix Goncourt, winning in a field that included Kamel Daoud’s Meursault contre-enquête (2014; Eng. The Meursault Investigation , 2015). Salvayre is a prolific author with over a dozen books, including the novel La Compagnie des spectres (1997; Eng. The Company of Ghosts , 2006), which explores the enduring consequences of France’s Vichy past. In Pas pleurer , Salvayre returns to themes found in La Compagnie des spectres such as memory, trauma, nationalism, and heritage. This novel about the Spanish civil war, however, ties these elements more directly to Salvayre’s own background: her parents fled Spain for France as refugees and the narrator bears a variation of her name: Lidia. Though Salvayre returns to themes and even some plot points from La Compagnie des spectres , such as the centrality of the mother-daughter relationship, the mother’s devotion to her deceased brother, and the missing or emotionally distant father, these do not lessen the experience of reading Pas pleurer . If anything, it gives the sense that Salvayre returned because she was not yet finished with these issues, and this novel contains as much rage and passion as the previous text. Most of Pas pleurer focuses on Montse, Lidia’s ninety-year-old mother. Her memory failing, the only time period the elderly Montse can recall is her final glorious summer in Spain in 1936 and her subsequent flight. The summer included a now nearly forgotten period during which social constraints were loosened and utopia seemed to be on the horizon. All was later eclipsed by the war’s violence. For sixteen-year-old Montse, it was a moment of possibility, freedom, and hope. Salvayre juxtaposes Montse’s story with interspersed accounts from another witness to the Spanish civil war: the semi-forgotten French novelist Georges Bernanos. He was a devout Catholic and, at times, a member of the nationalist group Action Française. Lidia describes her unsettling encounter with Bernanos’s Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1938; Eng. A Diary of My Times , 1938), a book that describes his experience as a witness to atrocities committed by Spanish nationalists as well as the complicity of many local representatives of the Catholic Church. Bernanos’s growing unease and disbelief give way to horror and a call for justice. The juxtaposition between the uncouth sixteen-year-old Montse and a middle-aged French monarchist seems odd initially, but both are strong, compelling characters who long for a better world, and their stories complement each other. Both are brought back from the shadows of history to speak to us in the present. Book Around the Corner. This is my second mini-billet to vanquish the TBW –To Be Written— pile. I think there is a reason why Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre stayed so long on my TBW. I don’t quite know how to write a billet about it and I kept procrastinating. Before diving into the book, one has to wonder how the French title that means No Crying or Don’t Cry became Cry, Mother Spain . The answer to that question is in Simon’s review of the book, here. Lydie Salvayre is French but her parents were Spanish immigrants. In Pas pleurer , she comes back to her mother’s youth and how the Civil War in Spain changed her life forever. Her mother is named Montserrat Monclus Arjona, “Montse”, and she came from a small village in Spain. She and her brother José went to Barcelona in 1936, to help the Anarchist movement. An adventure and some bitter disappointments later, they are back to their village. This short time in Barcelona changed Montse’ life forever. In comparison to the liveliness and modernity of Barcelona, their village seems frozen in the Middle Ages with its rigid social hierarchy. Peasants remain dirt poor and under the rule of rich families. These immutable social rules remind me of what Mouloud Feraoun describes in The Poor Man’s Son . The 1936 Anarchist movement in Barcelona meant to take down these walls made of smothering traditions and free the country of rigid social conventions and religious constraints. Lydie Salvayre shows how the hope of a revolution, of a new world with more social justice reached even small villages. Through Montse’s story, we see how Franco’s followers took over and the divides that this conflict created in communities. We see the personal fate of a young woman who embraced life in Barcelona and had to live with the repercussions of her actions. We see how women are often the first victims of conflicts and of society’s rules. We also understand how powerful the resistance to change can be, how inexperienced the young revolutionaries were. People’s fear of change always works in favor of the ones who preach immobilism. In parallel to her mother’s story, Lydie Salvayre shares her reading of Les grands cimetières sous la lune , the non-fiction book in which Georges Bernanos relates the horror of the Spanish Civil War in Mallorca and how the Catholic Church was complicit of massacres. He was living there when it happened and had a front seat to it. I tried to read Bernanos almost three years ago but I couldn’t finish it. I didn’t like his tone, I didn’t know the people he was pointing at and it was more a pamphlet than calm-and-collected non-fiction. I missed the subtexts. I wished Bernanos had been more like Orwell. Cry, Mother Spain is a poignant homage of a woman to her mother. Lydie Salvayre transcribes her mother’s creative French, the outcome of learning the language when she left Spain. She’s sometimes crude, sometimes funny as she mixes words. It’s the love of a daughter who gives her mother’s life a chance at eternity through literature. Cry, Mother Spain won the Goncourt prize in 2014 and it put the 1936 Civil War under mediatic lights. I really recommend Simon’s review, which is a lot more thorough than mine and makes excellent justice to the book.