7oo More books will be published during the literary season. Among those I read - and believe me, those who claim to have lie read everything - here are seven dramas that I advise you, hoping you will be as delighted as me when reading these texts. Some of them are discovered, others are from the authors that "I watch" for a while and, without doubt, have finally found their place in this profusion of publication. Beigbeder wrote it rightly: the new literary French is a disease that is important not to treat.
Happy reading!
1. Marc Dugain, Insomnia stars , Gallimard
The novel takes place during the fall of 1945 when the Allies occupied Berlin and German territory. It all started when French soldiers fall on an isolated farm and discovered the charred body of a man and a teenager who lives in the state of "savage."
The uniqueness of this novel is a psychological shift. The progress of the investigation by the French captain, an astronomer in the civilian heroes of Monte Cassino responsible for administering the occupied area (a township) and discovers with dismay the extermination of psychiatric patients, will eventually lead to a calculated and cynical approach towards officials "treatment" of patients. It will push the psychiatrist Warden to the fatal act. This book is also a reflection on lighting arbitrary depending on whether one is victorious or defeated, or idealistic ideologue, master or slave. A novel that will satisfy any filmmaker, because here is almost a real Dugain exceptional scenario, with images of very accomplished achievement ...
2. Virginie Despentes, Apocalypse Baby , Grasset Ed
In this novel stripper, the reader quickly take its bearings and launches, too, from Paris to Barcelona behind two heroines who are in search of young Valentine. A majestic universe in which the "trash" is not necessarily where we expect it, especially since the two private detectives searching for the girl are not saints ...
3. Olivier Adam, The Heart regular , Ed L'Olivier
Here Olivier Adam, who rushes to Japan. Who said that the island was French literature? Adam is one major exception: he lives across the sea, St. Malo, the appeal of travel is constant. This trip did not make him losing what made the success and originality of his books: the deconstruction of the disappearance and escape. This was illustrated by Sarah leaves for Japan to try to understand the death of his brother Nathan. There would have plunged into some exoticism and sentimentality, Adam called the force of a poetic language in these
time so rare ...
4 . Yahia Belaskri, If you are looking for rain, it comes from above , Ed Wind elsewhere (to be published Sept. 23).
The bus in the city , the first novel left me sense Yahia Belaskri he prepared us another insight of Algerian society and put it in the heart of his narrative the female energy - a more sensitive than the condition in Africa where feminism is more than regrettable.
In If you seek it rain from above , Belaskri tells the story of a young university family prey on the wall, but also to the ills and "the words" that plague contemporary Algeria: Violence , corruption, religious extremism. Must resist, stay put or take the path of elsewhere? This woman's destiny could be sketched without highlighting the bitterness of another being confronted "the system" Adel a man who, near or far is related to our university ...
5. Mathias Enard, Tell them about battles, kings and elephants , Actes Sud.
In 1506, the Sultan Bajazet would like Michelangelo design a bridge the Golden Horn, a project originally planned for Da Vinci. Enard then imagine Michelangelo accepting this company as it, besides the need for money, has in mind the idea of surpassing genius of da Vinci. What's in this realization that will make Michelangelo? Mathias Enard positioned itself increasingly as one of the most erudite writers of the French literary landscape. With this book it is still a beautiful "perfection of the shot."
6. Rodney Saint-Eloi, Haiti, the Kenber, my country ripped in 35 seconds and completely rebuild , Michel Lafon (forthcoming September 9)
is the opposite one of the "hostages" of the earthquake which hit Haiti last year . A story that the author calls "testimony-polyphonic narrative." For in this book is not only the author's voice we hear. It is the voice of Haitians and, in some respects, it is not necessary to say that the people who wrote this book in which scrolls any geography the first black republic. Rodney Saint-Eloi - who is a poet and editor in Montreal - that shows compassion and commiseration are not words rooted in the vocabulary of Haitians. It is a people standing and wishes to remain so. A moving book and against the forces of forgetfulness ...
7. Stephanie Rattle, The distribution of light , Ed Flammarion
Stephanie Rattle - as I watch the last few years - is back in top form in this story very polyphonic and features a teenage characters almost escaped from The Catcher in the heart of Salinger. In a world of abandonment must live with the resources we have, and help each other. A novel crossed with a commitment that will perhaps not smile Berlusconi. This very accomplished writing we would even forget that "the best crimes are those who operate the main laws of physics" ...
