Rezo family

The family saga "Rezo Family" of the famous French writer Erve Bazen (1911-1996) includes three novels: "Snake in a Fist" (1948), "Death of a Horse" (1950) and "Scream of Owl" (1972) Although these books are independent, the community of characters and plot motifs allow them to unite them into a trilogy, which tells about the life of Jean Rezo, the prototype of which, in the general opinion, was the author himself (The public of the city of Angei has not maintained contacts with the writer for many years, believing that he disgraced his family and his hometown)
The leading theme of the trilogy is the confrontation of mother and son: the fading mother no longer seems to be the mature to her son by the embodiment of evil, and her death is death It is perceived as the death of the disappearing world.

We are all actors, authors, spectators: there is actually no difference between the experience, what he saw or told. Whether she is our own or stranger - this is still the same, a million times repeated, again and again experienced drama. Our only dates, names, details in it, which creates the illusion of exclusivity, is in fact the most common banality. If such a tragedy concerned the mother of another person, he would consider her unheard of. As I. I am infringed on some strange sense of property, as if I am proud that my mother was not like others: she did not love me, and I did not love her, but each of us filled the existence of another. During the years of my adolescence, distorted by her, I wished her death, and now I do not want her to leave my life!
Erve Bazin

The theme of the family is almost the main thing in the work of Erve Bazen, one of the most read French writers, the president of the Goncurov Academy. His trilogy "Rezo Family", written more than half a century ago, became one of the most readable family sagas of the twentieth century