{"id":61185,"date":"2024-12-11T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stromspa.com\/magazine\/uncategorized\/cinq-oeuvres-pour-celebrer-le-lacher-prise\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:46:59","slug":"five-works-to-celebrate-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stromspa.com\/en\/magazine\/culture\/five-works-to-celebrate-letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Works to Celebrate Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because there isn\u2019t just one way to accept the present, as the saying goes, and leave what\u2019s passed in the past, here, brought together in these pages, are five literary or musical works that explore how\u2014little by little or all at once\u2014it\u2019s possible to confront, overcome, or embrace what too often prevents us from moving forward.<\/p>\n

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EMOTIONS<\/h3>\n

La symphonie des \u00e9clairs<\/em>, by Zaho de Sagazan (Virgin, 2023)<\/p>\n

Celebrated at Victoires de la musique, where she won four of the most prestigious awards, including those for album of the year, female breakthrough artist, and original song (the enchanting title track), Zaho de Sagazan is, at 24 years old, in full command of her strengths from her first album. With her confident phrasing, mature voice, shroud of mystery, and taste for proud and complex pop, she deploys the full emotional palette that we need to master in order to flourish on a daily basis by assuming it with all our flesh. There\u2019s love, of course, in its excitement (\u201cLes gar\u00e7ons, Mon inconnu\u201d), blindness (\u201cLes dormantes\u201d), grip (\u201cLangage\u201d), doubts (\u201cDis-moi que tu m\u2019aimes\u201d), or disappointments (\u201cJe r\u00eave, Suffisamment\u201d). Sagazan also struggles with fear (\u201cNe te regarde pas\u201d) or gloomy weather (\u201cTristesse\u201d), asserting that \u201cLes \u00e9motions sont des couleurs \/ [Elle est] le peintre qui les renverse<\/em>\u201d (\u201cEmotions are colours \/ [She is] the painter who turns them upside down\u201d). Until crossing the clouds \u201ccomme<\/em> le fait la lumi\u00e8re<\/em>\u201d (\u201cas the light does\u201d), like a human storm releasing La symphonie des \u00e9clairs <\/em>(the symphony of lightning bolts).<\/p>\n

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NOSTALGIA<\/h3>\n

Le tour du bloc. <\/em>L\u2019album du spectacle<\/em>, by Michel Rivard and the Flybin Big Band (Spectra Musique, 2023)<\/p>\n

After surveying his star chart in the musical theatre show L\u2019origine de mes esp\u00e8ces<\/em>, former truck driver Michel Rivard allows himself to revisit 50 years of songs while questioning what it costs us to orbit the Sun. No fewer than 11 musicians and backing vocalists accompany him on stage, the famous Flybin Big Band, and his repertoire gains a breadth and magnificence that is most contagious. From \u201ctour du bloc<\/em>\u201d (\u201ctouring the block\u201d) of his youth to those moments where the adult \u201cfait tourner des ballons (sur son nez)<\/em>\u201d (\u201cspins balloons [on his nose]\u201d), passing through the tricks that life plays on us directly, he encourages us to reconcile ourselves with our past without succumbing to nostalgia, that \u201cma\u00eetresse<\/em> inassouvie aux yeux trop bleus<\/em>\u201d (\u201cunfulfilled mistress with eyes too blue\u201d). Between the borrowings from Beau Dommage and the gems of his solo career, the songs resurface in disorder, like so many radiant memories \u201cTomb\u00e9(s) du ciel\u201d (\u201cfallen from the sky\u201d) through \u201cUn trou dans les nuages\u201d (\u201ca hole in the clouds\u201d). An album recorded in front of an audience that reshapes a \u201cMaudit Bonheur\u201d (\u201ccursed happiness\u201d) which should spill over onto everyone.<\/p>\n

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dEBTS<\/h3>\n

Le compte est bon<\/em>, by Louis-Daniel Godin (La Peuplade, 2023)<\/p>\n

What if adoption were the ultimate debt? A child now fully grown asks himself this obsessive question while dwelling on his core memories, encapsulating them in numerical values, from zero to twenty thousand, without forgetting infinity. Adopted when he was five days old, Louis-Daniel runs with all his soul after his credit note, deciphering each transaction into hard cash or symbolic currencies. With Le compte est bon<\/em>, a wink at the French game Des chiffres et des lettres<\/em>, first-time novelist Louis-Daniel Godin, keen on psychoanalysis, polishes a hypnotic writing style, magnetized by the call of the right word, which unfolds and folds back up, races forward and steps back, affirms and doubts in the same breath, empties the piggy bank without breaking it in order to better replenish it; \u201cmais il faut avancer, il faut avancer quand m\u00eame, sinon, sinon, sinon\u201d (\u201cbut you have to move forward, have to move forward anyway, otherwise, otherwise, otherwise\u201d). A little gem with a charming, controlled style, where figures take shape and give thanks to what will never be calculated.<\/p>\n

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WOUNDS<\/h3>\n

Nommer le vivant<\/em>, by M\u00e9lilot de Repentigny (Lem\u00e9ac, 2024)<\/p>\n

\u201cDe la vitalit\u00e9 \u00e0 la dormance\u201d (\u201cFrom vitality to dormancy\u201d) and vice versa and through all the natural states between these two poles, Myrique observes their environment according to the upheavals of their mental health. Because \u201cil n\u2019y a pas de meilleur rem\u00e8de \u00e0 la grisaille que celui d\u2019apprendre \u00e0 nommer le vivant\u201d (\u201cthere\u2019s no better remedy for gloom than learning to name the living\u201d), they rely on the perspective of Brother Marie-Victorin and his Laurentian Flora <\/em>to identify and tame the species around them during their psychiatric stays, from Montreal to Rimouski. Having studied forestry techniques then developed a passion for picking all kinds of things, especially mushrooms, Myrique\u2014the alter ego of M\u00e9lilot de Repentigny\u2014paints nuanced and multidimensional portraits of the medical and nursing staff, but above all of their fellow hospitalized patients, on a territory where disorders and deficiencies, sap and sweat, insomnia and buried dreams abound. A first book that breathes deeply and forcefully reminds us that health is a matter of both movement and rootedness.<\/p>\n

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GOODBYES<\/h3>\n

Partir de loin<\/em>, by Caroline Dawson and Maur\u00e8en Poignonec (La Bagnole, 2024)<\/p>\n

Caroline is getting ready to board a plane with her children and takes the opportunity to tell them about her first flight, when she was only seven years old and had to leave behind not only almost all her toys, but above all, the country where she was born. A few months before her departure, the late Caroline Dawson published this beautiful children\u2019s book in collaboration with illustrator Maur\u00e8en Poignonec, whose pencil strokes perfectly convey the liveliness specific to childhood. The author delicately addresses certain issues already raised in her famous story L\u00e0 o\u00f9 je me terre<\/em>, adapting them for young children and making no reference to Chile or to Spanish in order to broaden the readership\u2019s horizons. Immigration and its multiple challenges, learning a language, preserving and discovering traditions\u2014simply put, a new life takes shape, from school benches to the sugar shack, and another journey begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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