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EASTER KRAMER: BETWEEN EMOTION AND WRITING GRANDIOSE

Pascale Kramer, author of "A man shaken", ed Mercure de France.

Suffice to say at the outset that A man shook (ed. Mercure de France, 2011, 142p., 15 euros ), the new novel by Pascale Kramer (from Switzerland) shook me. I read in one go on the plane that brought me back to New York to Los Angeles - nearly six hours - and I do not for one moment stopped reading these poignant pages served by a style combines elegance, finesse, grace and intelligence. A mediocre novelist would have poured into the pathos and we have used a history of good feelings in this "chronic of a Death Foretold "by Claude, fiftieth, suffering from cancer and who must cope with its existence in more or less complex relationships with family around her. Claude became a "man with the desire to love distant." His wife Simone sees her everyday "decomposition": " Everything in his body still seemed muscular tarnished with ashes invisible cancer". And when the couple hopes to "comfort" by the act of love, nothing does in humans. And then there yal'apparition Gaël, eleven year old son Claude, born of a "forbidden love". The child's mother, Jovana, is not far, still as beautiful as ever, with " his whole body covered in a robust and manly girl will both . Claude will he really insensitive to the charm that awakens so many memories? Simone, the current wife, she contain her outbursts of jealousy? And that's not all, there is another woman, Yolanda, mother of Cedric, another son of Claude, born from his previous marriage. If Simone had an affection for Gael, it is not always the case with Cedric. The novel advance in the deconstruction of the relationship between these characters. The reader is caught in the trap of an ending that promises unforgettable thanks to the skill of the omniscient narrator. The descriptions are wonderful, with an economy of words to make room for the power of the image: "The heat advanced into the lawn, waking a voltage of wasps in the heavy bunches of plum-looking hard nuclei. "

Basically that says it seeks in prose if not this inner turmoil, this incredible feeling that makes us think that we become the characters in the story? One enters this book on tiptoe, then it becomes the "Prisoner of Love" at the point of forgetting the boundaries of reality and fiction. What Mario Vargas Llosa called "soft power" and has just succeeded brilliantly Pascale Kramer. A real gem.


Alain Mabanckou

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This book review was published in early February that the weekly "Jeune Afrique" where I hold a monthly column devoted to books, entitled "Read and Approved".