Sunday, August 8, 2010

Amelie Nothomb, a form of deception?

Amelie Nothomb is like Beaujolais Nouveau can not really know why such a cheap wine deserves a national holiday ....
But hey it's tradition, each year in September in the middle school supplies in your shopping cart already filled you slip a little shamefully new Nothomb. Because it is, because who knows maybe this time it will be good?

I'm no exception to the rule, but I swear that we'll catch me no more. No hangover no, just the feeling of having done myself once again ...

Author : Woman with hat and pale complexion needs no introduction! Omnipresent in the media with the air of not touching it polishes its image as a writer twisted eating only vegetables mushy ... Mouaii like to see it myself ... She gets to know withHygiene de l'assassin, she receives this prize of the novel of the French Academy in 1999 Fear and Trembling . His first success was totally deserved. Crazy brilliantly written novels. Unfortunately, since half a score of years back to each his books are becoming increasingly commonplace and uninteresting ...

History : Amelie Nothomb tells an epistolary relationship between her and Melvin Mapple, a soldier assigned to second-class American Baghdad. The soldier suffered what could be the new scandal in the army: he is obese ... He called for help believing that she alone can understand ...

Impressions : The subjects fetched does not scare me. Must still have the means to achieve its ambitions and now we feel very clearly that the author stayed at the stage of draft. We feel the spirit (as it has) in some of his sentences .. But nothing has led one feels that she wrote it quickly also find more bored purposes. The story ends as it has so decided. This is true after all, why get tired?? It still works then?
Save time this year, do not read it!

Laurent Gaude Hurricane


The story : At New Orleans , while a terrible storm is announced, most people fleeing the city. Those who were unable to leave will suffer the wrath of heaven .. That he remains a man in the middle of chaos?

Author : Laurent Gaude has received the 2004 prize Goncourt for his novel of the sun Scorta . (Book magnificent long been running through my head .. A strong book, poetic, beautifully written ..)

Impressions: I'm always a little wary of thin books, wondering if so few pages can satisfy me and show me. But I left my suspicions aside and I did well!
The author portrays a series of characters who intersect or meet. Their voices rise in a large choir that sounds like the cry of a city abandoned to its fate. The writing is strong, beautiful, controlled. Mark each phrase, touch, and at the same time is savored.
Go ahead without fear because this book is beautiful, simply.

Jean-Christophe Rufin, Katiba


I had good memories of my readings Rufin. Adventure novels, always well documented. Novels that take you quietly Cairo Brazil smooth, always with happiness ...
Alas, it was a little disappointed I confess .....
And yet the subject could be exciting (the secret service track down dangerous terrorists in the desert of the Sahel).
Yet the author knows his subject as he participated with the agents of the DGSE in hunting down members of al-Qaeda after the assassination of French tourists in Mauritania ...
Unfortunately, this novel has returned too want the geo-political context and procedures of security ervices more like a documentary on terrorism in Mauritania as a breathless thriller .... Very slowly, a little cumbersome, in short, I do not recommend it for those looking to have a good time ....

Strongly back!

A quality program in perspective for this literary season !!!!!! Already and it's not bad, there will be no new or re Levy Musso ... Phew I am no longer forced to wonder why things like these ...

It is announced loudly and stunts Houellebecq's new ... to see ...
Another Nothomb, but it seems he is good ... when in doubt ...
The books I'll probably read:

French Literature
- Cosmos Claro (Actes Sud), in the opinion of all, it is above all others ...
- Tell them about battles, kings and elephant Matthias Enard (Actes Sud)
- Salt of Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Gallimard)
- The regular heart of Olivier Adam ....

Foreign literature:

- I look forward to the new Ken Follet, the fall of the giants , the first volume of a new trilogy. The action takes place in the early twentieth century through the course of 5 families ... Ah, if he could find the genius of his pillar of the earth . To be continued!

- Other heavyweights in the literature are expected:
Ellis imperial suite .
Pychon Arkwright.

After no smokink the droll Will Self returns with The Book of Dave, anything that makes me want the summary: the thoughts of a London taxi driver a racist and misogynist 500 years later become the Bible of a new world ....

In short, what good reading in perspective ...