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Le nénuphar et l’araignée is an autobiographical story about fear that explores the symptoms, the sources, and the origins of anxiety, from the most intimate to the most ordinary. Along short chapters that are also fragments of life, Claire Legendre deconstructs the psychological, physical, and social mechanisms associated to this feeling. In a style that’s lively, sometimes funny, often serious yet never complacent, the narrative draws a singular path that goes from France to the Czech Republic to Quebec and approaches life from a both defying and disarming perspective.