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the essentials This business leader, who loves literature, is publishing his first novel, “The Past”, which he will dedicate on Saturday at the cultural center.
Because there are many within us, Guillaume Turlan, head of the SDEL Rouergue company specializing in energy and telecommunications networks, reveals another facet of his being with the publication of his first novel The Past. This title refers to a hunting technique that is practiced at dusk. When day takes precedence over night and vice versa. A parable of life, the one traced by Gabrielle, the heroine of the book, going back through her thoughts, the thread of a quarter of a century of her existence. “I play on the counterfactual to detach myself from myself”, says Guillaume Turlan who offers not one more (too many) work of positive psychology but on the contrary, a novel which gives keys like “a codex” to “find a part of oneself.
A universal story
Because Gabrielle’s story is universal. “His story is ours, with our fears, our loves, our passions, our doubts, our joys and this need to understand, to know and not to suffer,” he writes in the preface. Life is a succession of mournings necessary to know oneself and move forward. A woodcock hunter (only), Guillaume Turlan also offers an ode to nature. In its beauty and its cruelty there too necessary. Because it is through the opposite that we move forward. The eternal paradox.
Coming from a peasant family on one side and a mining family on the other, Guillaume drew on his uneasiness from adolescence (and even more often) when “this uneasiness which makes them act and say the contrary to what they think and feel,” he writes. It is necessary to experience evils in order to find fullness within oneself. Osmosis and hoping for egregore. In any case, a path to knowledge. The attainment of grace that he (re)finds in nature. This thanks to the light of dusk. This timeless moment when one’s being becomes one with nature to taste eternity. “When we vibrate on exactly the same scale, the harmony is perfect and no other wave can disturb this gentle undulating wave,” he writes in this sense. The sense of intuition and daring to see yourself in the mirror. It also involves this parallel between Man and the beast, the end and hunger justify the means. And each word is weighed to feel his thought at the moment of the past. Guillaume Turlan banishes the border between space and time to open the mind to what is hidden. The truth deep within. In the gap. Like light at dusk. Hence the metaphors for the background, the allegory of Plato’s cave cited and his sentences which close the chapter “Who am I?” in the title as a codex indeed: “The spirit has the appearance of our universe, infinite and unknown. The soul is dark matter, it is invisible and unfathomable and yet it is everywhere. The body is a planet, a simple cluster of particles which will live, die and start a perpetual cycle of returning to dust…” And in form, the use of the adjective “except.” As the heroine is thus safe and sound. He found his home. Rest in chaos. Wisdom. Death is only a passage to transmit. What if Guillaume Turlan’s woodcock was in the skin and soul of Jonathan Livingston the seagull?
To find out, he will meet on Saturday at the Leclerc cultural center in Onet to sign and discuss.
