“The screens make the penalties more intense”

First novel son, Three sistersPlunged us to the heart of a true story, that of women who decided to kill their violent father. Laura Poggioli returns with Era, A very distant story and yet not so different.

Behind smartphones and social networks, Laura Poggioli examines human flaws, toxic relations and invisible injuries. Encounter.

Ados addicts to screens

In EraYou tell the daily life of young people and their caregivers in an addictology service. We find a writing close to that of the documentary, as in your previous work …

Indeed, it remains of the literature of reality. For Three sistersI met a lot of journalists and lawyers. There was a whole investigation work. Here too, I went to the field, in an addictology unit that inspired the novel, I started writing shortly after. The writing work is different, but I think we recognize my paw, especially because I work a lot on the narrative tangle that mixes a subject of society that can touch everyone and a narrative in the first person, a more intimate look.

We first present him as a book on addiction to screens, but he mainly talks about human and romantic relationships, sometimes toxic.

Yes, completely when it was not necessarily the goal at the start. But like Lara, my heroine, I felt a lot in contact with the teens of this unity and that brought me back to more personal emotions and memories.

I’m not aimed that the book talks about the violence of men again, but young patients often reported how boys used digital tools to harass them, submit them and hurt them. To that, I added to the character of Lara a story of grip and cyberbulling inspired by my experience that I dissect almost clinically.

You write that screens only make the sorrows more intense. It is interesting to analyze how technologies influence our way of relationship.

It was really that, my project with this novel: to make it feel how much this ultra-connection changes our relationship to the world, to others, to ourselves and how much it makes the evils more intense. But that does not only concern them, it is all generations and that is what my heroine embodies, an adult herself quite addicted.

Precisely, how did you work not to fall into the clichés on young people and their relationship with screens?

I wanted at all costs to avoid that and I think it goes especially by the fact that I have met a lot of young people from different backgrounds. I did not expect to be touched at this point by their stories or that they/they send me back to mine. I wanted this proximity to be transcribed in Era. And then, adolescence remains an era for which I have infinite tenderness.

2 books on screens addiction

Laura Poggioli is not the only one to seize this burning subject. Other authors explore, in their own way, the drifts of hyperconnection.

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