Do you know a hero who is bald? A hero like Superman, Hercules or Beowulf ? In the department of smooth skulls you will find the grumpy
Gru and
the disfigured Wade Wilson, antihero of Me, Ugly and Villain and Deadpool, respectively. Or
Krillin, best friend of Son Gokû in the universe
Dragon ball, which has the peculiarities of not having a nose, and of dying regularly.
Realize that you lose your hair, at 22, when life revolves around love, friends, studies, family… A hard blow. An anxiety that grows as the hair falls out. The phenomenon is common: baldness affects one in four men (25%), and hair loss concerns more than a third of those who suffer from it (37%) (Ifop for Oxygen and Norgil, 2015)
Concern then anguish
Suffering from “androgenetic alopecia”, which affects men more often than women, the author of novels Julien Dufresne-Lamy has painfully experienced the loss of his hair. For ten years, he felt shame, used drugs and subterfuge to hide his baldness. Before leaving for Istanbul, Turkey, for a hair transplant operation. In the capital of hair tourism, he met soccer stars and anonymous people from all over the world.
Julien Dufresne-Lamy has published an autofiction on his fortunes and misfortunes with his hair, Anti fall, published by
Flammarion (19 euros). A book mixing humor and sadness about his youth and his hair tourism. But also a reflection on the symbolism of the hair, and the impact of alopecia on social and emotional life.
What symbolism of the hair?
In our podcast ” Wait a minute ! “, With our Thursday meeting” La Bulle “, Julien Dufresne-Lamy looks back on his book, on the decision to perform a hair operation, and on this symbolism of the hair. To listen to it, it’s as easy as clicking in the audio player above.
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