{"id":42930,"date":"2021-10-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=42930"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:04:06","slug":"girassol-or-the-testimony-of-a-hypersensitive-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/girassol-or-the-testimony-of-a-hypersensitive-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abGirassol\u00bb, the testimony of a hypersensitive man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday books<\/a> - Aude Robert-Tissot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julien Gonzalez-Alonso's first book, Girassol<\/em>, gravitates between two central themes, art and love, and is the autobiography of a hypersensitive man discovering his wounds. In the face of the proliferation of self-help books, this book is the perfect example of an authentic story with which the reader can identify, and possibly feel better, far from thinking positive thoughts at all costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Who hasn't read, or at least been tempted by, one of the books that are flourishing in our favorite bookshops, with enticing titles such as Am I hypersensitive?<\/em> or The power of the present moment<\/em>, Is meditation the answer to all our woes and neuroses? While some of these books are written by psychiatrists, praising disciplines such as meditation with scientific evidence to back them up, others - and there are many - are written by wellness enthusiasts who promise to heal our psyches by giving us the keys to better manage our lives and finally achieve happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the other end of the spectrum, there are books by anonymous authors, with mysterious titles and publishing houses. Such is the case with the first book by Julien Gonzalez-Alonso, who runs Editions du Griffon (Neuch\u00e2tel), an enthusiastic and enlightened art dealer. It may seem pretentious for an author to publish his own book, or on the contrary, courageous. Once the book is finished, we quickly turn to the second option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julien is a breathless art dealer with a thirst for spirituality. He turns to a former love with whom he broke off abruptly after long years of suffering, a toxic relationship with a pattern he unfortunately knows all too well. Add to this the context of the pandemic and the confinement, and Julien finally decides to write the story of his life, in order to heal, rebuild himself, understand his failures through writing, and thus try to approach an inner and, above all, relational balance. The form of his autobiographical story - the second person singular - allows him to express himself in his own way.\u2019This is particularly true when he's dealing with a childhood trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Some psychologists would describe Julien as \u00abhypersensitive\u00bb: heightened emotions, hyperempathy... some of them. coaches<\/em> would even say that they are endowed with a power, that they possess a gift. This is how the authors of self-help books address their gifted readers, while taking them for happy imbeciles, as if human complexity could be reduced to positive injunctions. Julien, for his part, seeks to heal himself, or at least to understand his failures, through the introspection that comes with writing his life story. It's then up to us, the readers, to find some answers to our wounds or patterns, this time by turning towards others, identifying with personal stories of universal power, such as that of Girassol.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n