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“Elmet”, the first upset novel by Fiona Mozley, takes the theme of the links between a brother and a sister.Complicity, jealousy, loyalty, betrayal ... Many novelists have already examined the feelings that agitate siblings.Overview.

The theme of the family has always been, and remains, at the center of the concerns of the novelists.The siblings, and the complexity of the links it induces, is one of the variations of this timeless motif.Sophocles, already, staged the obstinacy of Antigone, braving the anger of his uncle Creon in order to give a burial to his brother Polynice - who died of the hand of their brother Summerocle, in accordance with the curse pronounced by their father, Oedipus.

Love, loyalty, rivalry, madness ... Today, in Elmet, her very beautiful first novel, the young British Fiona Mozley calls for both the universe of the tale and those of the social novel and the tragedy, to leanOn the relationship between Cathy and Danny, the older sister and her younger, hero of her dark and vibrant history.On this occasion, return (and perfectly subjective choice) on a few other romantic siblings.

"A page of history", by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1887)

The brief and fatal story of the incestuous loves of Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, brother and sister and ultimate descendants "of a sacrilege, depraved and ferocious family", them "guilty of a crime different from the crimes of their fathers, of the'abominable line of the crimes of their fathers, and which to these crimes added theirs, that their fathers would not have committed ”(ed.Quarto-Gallimard).