Océane Perona - Talk on Anachroniques (Radio Grenouille) about her book "Celles qui Peuvent encore marcher et sourire" (Women who can still walk and smile)
Intervention byOcéane Perona on 22 March 2025 in the Anachroniques programme (Radio Grenouille) about his book Those who can still walk and smile (published by Julliard, 2024).
Anachroniques is a monthly programme devoted to current affairs in the humanities and social sciences. The idea is to invite an author who has recently published a work in the humanities and social sciences to present it in a way that is accessible to the general public, with a view to widening the audience for works in the social sciences and demonstrating their critical capacity to shed light on the debates of today and tomorrow (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, etc.).
Book summary:
Héloïse sleeps badly and drinks too much coffee. In her office in the Violence Unit, the days go by and the minutes of rape interviews pile up on the table. Every day, Héloïse has the feeling that she's working her socks off for nothing, as most of her investigations are dismissed. But when Laura is raped and left for dead in her flat, Ophélie, a young trainee sociologist in the group, sees Héloïse become enamoured with this unusual case. The inquisitive student soon realises that the brigade itself is not spared from violence.
Immersed in the day-to-day life of a specialist police force, this novel interweaves the voices of women, those who speak and those who listen, those who are victims but still walk and laugh".