You had to think about it, it’s done! Jackie Villain, a local novelist for several years, has concentrated the story of the pandemic in an unusual dictionary which brings together all the new words used, unknown to the public until then, relating to the health crisis. Retired from teaching since 2008, she was born in Moselle in 1953, and now devotes herself to writing novels.
The last, In the skin of the other, already raised the arrival of the pandemic. “When a pandemic of this kind arrives in our lives, everything changes and makes us think … So many known words but also so many new words have hammered our minds on a daily basis. A few pages which do not claim to replace any other dictionary of fame, but to keep true to our memory all that has happened since that scourge. “
Patience and determination. It must be said that the time was long during the confinement, the day-to-day research, the diligent listening via the news, the radio, precise information to bring together all these new words, especially the British sounding ones. “We must not forget this period, even, of course, if it is necessary to get rid of it!”
Immense pain, moments of joy, health and economic disaster, precaution and recklessness, conspiracy, hope, tables, figures … The list is long, but detailed, sometimes with a touch of humor that gives lightness.
A period that left traces, and, for Jackie Villain, a way to exorcise this period without forgetting it. The novelist will lend herself to the dedication of “they are dico” at the Marc-Alyn media library, in Roquemaure, Wednesday, November 24, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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