After 40 years of his professional life with disabled children, Gilbert Autheman, a retired institution director, took up the pen to place it on a reflection addressed to an imaginary friend.
“This long letter is actually composed of 43 small sequences, of just a few pages each, always very personal. They depict situations captured on the spot, with a sometimes playful writing and cultivating a certain disorder, appearances of distance, and even irony from an experienced professional,” writes Michel Chauvière, a research director at CNRS, in the preface of the book.
“Is it not humanism with its values of fraternity and solidarity that can motivate and guide us in our actions, so that the life of men, the life of all men on the planet, is more beautiful tomorrow than today?” are the last words of Gilbert, written in his essay which is actually addressed to all those called to bring a team to life.
The book is available at La Papet (04 93 79 05 40).
