![]() ![]() Slimani’s project is one of psychological forensics-what drove her to it? The Dostoevsky quote provides part of the answer.Īfter showing us the dead children, Slimani takes the reader back in time. The fate of a trapped, ignored, abandoned person, a woman with nowhere to go, who in this case is driven to an unthinkable crime. This, in a nutshell, is what Slimani is exploring. ![]() ‘For every man must have somewhere to go.’ ‘Do you understand, dear sir, do you understand what it means when you have nowhere to go?’ Marmeladov’s question of the previous day came suddenly into his mind. ![]() It’s in the epigraph, taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky: Shocking as this is, the real clue to what the book is about occurs a few pages earlier than the first line. A baby’s little body gets hauled off in a grey bag, zipped shut. There are graphic descriptions of two dead children in a Paris apartment, murdered by a nanny. Reviews of award-winning, international sensation The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani have made much of the first line, “The baby is dead.” The first three pages pull no punches. ![]()
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