The heart of the problem, by Christian Oster
What a strange book, you say, as every time you read Christian Oster. No stylistic gesticulation or pseudo-modernist fame, but the feeling of penetrating into the heart of the individual, revealed by the confrontation of his solitude with a very particular situation. There, Simon discovers the corpse of a man in his living room.
His wife is in the bathroom, impassive. She tells him she's leaving him and goes away for good. He loves her to the point of accepting what she has asked him: to rid the house of the corpse. Did Diane kill this man? Was he his lover? Will she come back? And he, how will he play the comedy with third parties, and make himself believe in himself that he can avoid the worst? If Alfred Hitchcock had written a novel, it would be that one.
Appartenir, by Séverine Werba
Boris, alias Babar, never said anything about him. His grave voice was tinged with a slight accent, which barely evoked a mysterious elsewhere ... but never uttered the words that would have told his origins, war, deportation, no more to his son than to his granddaughter, the narrator of this first "novel" - "narrative" would be more accurate - impressive mastery and sensitivity.
On the death of Boris, the extinction of a generation carries away the family memory that she will try to find years later. This quest will give rise to a difficult investigation into a journey to the land of the specters from which it will return with a life augmented by those which preceded it and from which it proceeds. Thus an identity is forged, and a remarkable book.
In the land of Alice, by Gaëlle Bantegnie
Gaëlle Bantegnie's books are as original as their author, electro-rock singer in the duo La Maman et la Putain, a pragmatic feminist and professor of philosophy. After two well-known novels ("France 80" and "Voyage à Bayonne"), she returned with this exciting foray "Au pays d'Alice" - her daughter, followed from birth until her 4th birthday, July 6, 2014 .
The author-say, the narrator-watches in detail the behavior of this child who learns to be, the emergence of his personality.
She tells us with a luminous perspicacity the daily of this evident and difficult exercise that is maternity. Which gives rise to a text which is surprising that no one has written it before.
In the land of p'tit, by Nicolas Fargues
Gaëlle Bantegnie's books are as original as their author, electro-rock singer in the duo La Maman et la Putain, a pragmatic feminist and professor of philosophy. After two well-known novels ("France 80" and "Voyage à Bayonne"), she returned with this exciting foray "Au pays d'Alice" - her daughter, followed from birth until her 4th birthday, July 6, 2014 .
The author-say, the narrator-watches in detail the behavior of this child who learns to be, the emergence of his personality.
She tells us with a luminous perspicacity the daily of this evident and difficult exercise that is maternity. Which gives rise to a text which is surprising that no one has written it before.
