Le taureau par les cornes, Morvandiau,
In French, 152 pages, L'Association edition on 7 February 2020. 19.1 x 1.7 x 19.1 cm.
June 2005. Finally, a diagnosis is made: his mother suffers from early frontotemporal dementia, a cousin of Alzheimer's disease.
September 2005. Their son Émile was born prematurely. He has Down syndrome.
A few months apart, Morvandiau had to mourn the mother he knew and the son he had expected.
It is an opportunity for him to return, with modesty and poetry, to the history of his family and, more particularly, of his mother, a very pious woman, with a strong character, combining conformism and fantasy. It is also the story of the difficult learning of life with a disabled child, of the gaze taken by the others, of the administrative jungle that he must face.
Through his sometimes amused look, sometimes irritated by the incongruities of difference and what surrounds him, Morvandiau tenderly evokes the intensity of the emotions of a father and a son in the face of an illness, and finally, the happiness of being alive.