A radio personality recognized for his loquaciousness for the least measured, Olivier Niquet wanted to celebrate the great family of introverts in writing, because it is well known that whoever does not write a word consents. Revealed by Le Sportnographe <\/em>and dedicated to La soir\u00e9e<\/em>, and now La journ\u00e9e \u2013 est (encore) jeune<\/em>, the commentator here embraces the recurring gags at his expense to reflect quietly and distinguish introversion from social phobia, extol their complementary virtues with the group of extroverts\u2014amusingly advantaged on the social scale, because it seems to him that they are more \u201csocially desirable\u201d\u2014and assess the value of an opinion, to say nothing of outrage. With the help of sociological studies and Reddit comments, apocryphal quotations and rampant self-deprecation, Niquet offers himself up as a case study who lives in harmony with his discreet nature, still preferring humour to mood. What if some people learned to be quiet sometimes so that the silence of others would resonate?<\/p>\n Baldwin, Styron et moi <\/em>by M\u00e9likah Abdelmoumen (M\u00e9moire d\u2019encrier, 2021)<\/p>\n Editor-in-chief of the Lettres qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises <\/em>magazine, M\u00e9likah Abdelmoumen has undoubtedly written one of the most nuanced essays of this young decade. Born in Chicoutimi to a Tunisian father and a mother from Saguenay and having spent a good portion of her adult life in Lyon before returning to Montreal, the author has had many opportunities to dwell on the multiple contours of identity, whether we are analyzing nationalist fa\u00e7ades or the rootedness of the heart. Here, she recounts the unlikely friendship between two major American writers of the 20th century, James Baldwin (Going to Meet the Man<\/em>) and Willian Styron (Sophie\u2019s Choice<\/em>)\u2014one the grandson of a slave, the other the grandson of a mas- ter\u2014and how a case of cultural appropriation shook them and united them in the late 1960s. On the fine line between the legitimate anger and the empathy inherent to literature, she builds a solid bridge between yesterday\u2019s fiction and today\u2019s burning questions, so that the dialogue is never broken.<\/p>\n Self-care<\/em>, collective under the guidance of Nicholas Dawson (Hamac, 2021)<\/p>\n \u201cWho is the self in self-care?\u201d rightly asks Zishad Lak, one of the 11 voices brought together in this collective under the sign of introspection and the affirmation of scars. In a society where taking the time to treat your ailments is not accessible to everyone due to a lack of money, resources, or references, self- care can quickly become synonymous with privilege. What, then, of our blind spots and our survival instincts, of our traumas like our secret gardens? In fundamentally free forms that match the continuous flow of thoughts, but also meditative or creative breathing, these personal offerings written in the midst of the pandemic celebrate the singularity of the journeys and the strength of relationships, like \u201ca political declaration of benevolence and solidarity\u201d desired by Nicholas Dawson, \u201cso that taking care of yourself means that, together, we take care of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Soigner, aimer <\/em>by Ouanessa Younsi (M\u00e9moire d\u2019encrier, 2016)<\/p>\n The lucidity and unique style of Ouanessa Younsi (M\u00e9tiss\u00e9e<\/em>, the Femmes rapaill\u00e9es <\/em>col- lective) first struck me in the aforementioned Self-care<\/em>, in which her dual vocation as poet and psychiatrist gives rise to reflections that are as vast as they are intimate. I immediately wanted to discover her essay on care, Soigner, <\/em>aimer<\/em>, which testifies, in the form of a poetic notebook, to her medicinal practice: from Sept- \u00celes, where she \u201cdraws a need for shoulders,\u201d to Val-d\u2019Or, where she examines a patient like \u201can oyster stingy with its pearls,\u201d and finally to Kuujjuaq, where a glass of water becomes a strong human binding agent. She masterfully dissects the humility that her profession demands, \u201cthe madness that is not [always] disease,\u201d and the role of writing, which allows her to \u201cbetter support others,\u201d and she opens up in passing on mourning her grandmother and on her own flaws. Since, after all, \u201cCaring, writing, [would this be] the making love of fragility?\u201d The essay boasts a restorative power.<\/p>\n La m\u00e9thode Y <\/em>by Louis-Philippe Pratte (Cardinal, 2022)<\/p>\n A defrocked automotive designer, Louis-Philippe Pratte lost his desire to grease the consumerist wheel when he became aware that the indus- try to which he was prepared to devote his life was undoubtedly selling the \u201cultimate gadget,\u201d that which turns out to be obsolete as soon as it arrives on the market because the next model has already been planned. He in no way excludes himself from the critique that he develops in the first part of his story, La m\u00e9thode Y<\/em>, the subtitle of which translates as Thinking and Living Deconsumerism <\/em>and calls for small revolutions. To do this, he has imagined \u201cthe design of a new life\u201d through the symbol of the Y. Its two branches embody the paths of reduction and union\u2014or of sharing, connection\u2014while its base tends toward an ideal of verticality, where the ego gives way to the \u201ceco.\u201d All green and white, visually pared down, but filled with simple, striking examples, this noble guide to austerity takes us from guilt to action.<\/p>\n Between what soothes us and what torments us, between what makes us up and what surrounds us, between what separates us and what connects us, care is a kind of food for the soul. 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<\/p>\n… off dialogue<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n… of the self<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n… of others<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n…of the environment<\/span><\/h4>\n
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