Claude Szlagman
“Reality or fiction. During my professional life, I have been confronted with both. At first, I chose the image and reality, then the word and fiction. When I got tired of a job that I loved madly, I met a psychoanalyst who had ideas, magic, imagination. I became his hands. Day after day, we wrote, first essays, short stories, a blog, then novels. I was his first reader, I was the candid of his stories. I, the dyslexic and “dysorthographic” left-hander, was a production manager, I became a literary mender and writer. I assist, I invent, I write, I imagine for and with others. I support working people who want to write, without it being the core of their job and even less that of their schedule. Psychoanalyst, sexologist, painter, photographer, young and old, they trust me to write their essays and novels. At the same time I write, I tell stories, my "once upon a time", as I like to call them. "This is how Claude Szlagman introduces himself.