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.
Claude Szlagman - A Creature on My Couch
Paul is a psychiatrist, Alice is a painter. When Angélique enters Paul's office, he is far from imagining that his life will never be the same again. He is virile, a little macho and proud of it. An accomplished and experienced man, Paul finds himself trapped in a game of cat and mouse where the cat is not always the one you think. Alice is elegant and sensual. She is intelligent and knows that you should not trust appearances. The creature is enigmatic and caricatured. She gives herself the air of a little girl or the allure of a femme fatale. Depending on the mood, she is sexual, naive or manipulative. Under the tender gaze of his loving wife, Paul, our hero, finds himself embroiled in a vaudeville misadventure between a detective story and an erotic-romantic comedy. While our contemporary world is immersed in all things psychological, A Creature on My Couch takes an offbeat, empathetic, incredible and whimsical look at a universe that we all think we know.