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Nagasaki

Nagasaki, Eric Faye, Editions Stock, 2010

The title of this very short novel and the story presented on the back cover made me buy the last book of Eric Faye.

Grand Prize of the French Academy, he tells a true story rather unusual Japanese: A Framework for a weather station's gloomy everyday lives alone, between a job that takes up the evenings and his quiet life quiet when he goes home.

And in his home, specifically, he sees strange things. Details that differ between his departure and return.

He feels that his familiar universe is slightly different each time. So after a while it starts to ask questions ... "Well I put my knacks here yet ??!!» or" But I was certain, however, there were 367 sugar red white and 7 in my sugar. Duffer! "...

Wondering if it is not going crazy, he decides to mount a small camera connected to the Internet and see what happens at home when he is not there, all from his office ...

Et .. Your daaam! He quickly understands why his rations weetabix lose weight each day a little more, and that's really a mystery because I do not know if you've tasted, but it's really gross.

Good, Well, he discovers the pot to the roses and then follow after the unfortunate history of the little mouse that has eaten weetabix and forgot to reseal the package to not get caught.

And then, once the torture of his past history - yes it's really sad, but at the same time, it's boring! - The novel ends with a condemnation of the evil capitalist society? No. On a critical time ? Hmm. I not know in fact. It ends like a blank, flat, very French style, a little fishtail like "here I must finish the story and I move on."

So I'm a bit naughty, naughty. Especially as I enjoyed writing and the place and the subject of departure had anything to attract me.

Alas, this novel is soft, the characters are bland and morality in the French sounds like old hat to Yann Arthus-Bertrand: it's tiring at the end ... People have eyes, ears and brain that work in most cases. No need to add yet another layer ...

It's a shame and at the same time, I confess that I want to read another book by this author, to give him another chance, because he writes well and that is when rather rare nowadays.

But maybe I've been immersed in a world too Japanese to be homesick? It is true that by adding the whole "alien" of Japanese society, habits and customs, through the mode of living, etc. ... Maybe this makes it the least feeble story? Alas, I am not well placed to tell. I expect good Obviously your comments on this topic.

It turns out that this book was part of my small selection of travel. Fortunately, he was in good company ... Very, very well accompanied by Invisible, by Paul Auster ... That has nothing to do. What I can not compare. Him, I really sucked ...

Nagasaki, a Japanese vacuum by Eric Faye

[François Nicaise]


Mood musical: Antoine Corriveau, St-Maurice / Logan (Independent, 2011)

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Pildiblog, photographer Remo Savisaar blog

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I do not usually do this on this blog, but I present today a photo blog that I never tire of contemplate each day. Sure, you must love nature and animals. The author, Remo Savisaar, loves them so much that he manages to make absolutely beautiful shots. I do not even remember how I stumbled upon this site, especially since it is a wildlife photographer Estonian and nothing we do not understand the texts. I just found by doing some research, he was born in 1978 Tartu, Estonia, and since 2005 he photographs nature, passion became profession. He published on his blog a new photo every day.

Mood Music: Anouar Brahem, Tale of the incredible love (ECM Records, 2000)

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Polyte

Polyte , Savinien Mérédac, 2011, editions Jean-Claude Lattes for the new edition. Paper received through a partnership between BOB (Blog-O-Book) and the Penguin Press. Thank you to them!

Written in 1926, this book is considered the masterpiece of literature Mauritius. It was lost for many years, then rediscovered and republished.

Savinien Mérédac, whose real name was Auguste Esnouf, was born at Port Louis in 1880. He leads, alongside his job as an engineer, an intense literary life. He founded a magazine, publishes essays and a book for children, then in 1926 Polyte . He died in 1939 leaving several manuscripts, including a newspaper (editor's notes).

Polyte is Lavictoire Hippolyte, a fisherman in sixties, gruff and authoritarian, who decides to marry Rebecca Sansdésir, much younger than himself, to ensure that the offspring's previous wife has not given before dying.

When Rebecca became pregnant, suddenly Polyte has doubts about his paternity. Suspicious and jealous, he ignores her child, Samuel, to his 15 years where the outcome is bound to be dramatic ...

Written in flavor, this novel astonishes with its modernist who never makes us think that the action takes place in the early twentieth century.

The author intersperses his account of Mauritian Creole, which, if not totally comprehensible to the average reader, is tamed by its lilting sounds and images live. Moreover, even the French found in this book is often imaged ... There is sometimes a little something Quebecois slang (Astheure / A-c 't'hère)!

- A-c't'hère, will take a small bucket in the corner, where even then, we've earned it! Look, I "spitting cotton"! (P.83)

Who has had the opportunity to travel to Mauritius , it is nice to see all magical names of villages and places like Grand Gaube (where the action takes place mainly in the north of the island), Flat Island, Round Island, the corner-of-sight, Triolet, Pointe aux Fruits ... Magical places which today are popular holiday destinations for honeymooners ...

But Polyte , this enchanting is not just as decoration, since all human wickedness and bitterness are found in the character of Hippolytus, who in addition to being so morbid jealousy, hate violently population " Malbars " a derogatory term (in Mauritius, as the neighboring island of Reunion, it is widely used in common parlance) designating the Indians in Mauritius, and demonstrated a very assertive racism against them.
Morale keeps us in suspense throughout the novel that reads very quickly indeed. Some characters have beautiful light through this story, the shadow Polyte attacker keeps coming back to haunt the pages of this wonderful literary discovery.

[Lætitia The Clech]

Mood Music: These New Puritans , Hidden (Domino Records, 2010)

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The Junk

The Junk , Sarah Waters Alto Publishing, 2010, translated from English by Alain Defossé (Original title: The Little Stranger )

Beautiful beautiful object and reading junk The , the last of Sarah Waters takes the reader in a scary story where parapsychology and chronic social meet.

Dr. Faraday has a small county town of Warwickshire , just after the Second World War. It is called Hundreds Hall, a huge mansion once wealthy, now in complete abandonment to treat Betty, the domestic domain. This is an opportunity for him to befriend the family Ayres, he already knew her as a young child. Caroline and Roderick are now living with their mother and poorly dog Caroline, Gyp. The family fortune is gone with the war and no longer to renovate this building too large for the three.

From there, over 500 pages, Dr. Faraday will witness dramatic and unexplained phenomena taking place in Hundreds Hall. Alongside this story troubling links between Faraday and Dr. Ayres family will grow beyond the social conventions of the time.

Sarah Waters, born in Wales in 1966, was librarian and a teacher before embarking on writing. His first novel, Tipping the Velvet (Tipping the Velvet ) has been so successful that it has been adapted for British television (and the next two as well). Regarded as a writer of gay and lesbian literature, Sarah Waters has also - and above all - interested in London life in the nineteenth century (Victorian era), then the Second World War and postwar.

It successfully explores a new style in The Junk , and although the story may have a swim, rubs his novel turns Dickens, Poe and Jane Austen ...

true social chronicle of England's post-war The Junk continues where Nightwatch (his previous novel) stopped: the impact of dramatic World War II and personal dramas that were played in Nightwatch somewhat overshadowed the social transformation of England at that time. The Junk in , the author draws on the same footing the fantastic side and side office to develop the full scope of its dramatic history. So that even the reader is confronted with the anxieties of the narrator, flirting with madness ...
The vocabulary is rich, and descriptions Hundreds Hall absolutely live, making the house a full-fledged character.

edition offered by the house Alto is a gem, giving us the impression of browsing a scrawl. Not trimmed its edge like many English editions of books and gives it a touch old-fashioned.
Sarah Waters, with The Junk was nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 for the second time since his appointment in 2006 to Night Watch (The Night Watch ).

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Mood Music: Younger Brother , Vaccine (Twisted Records, 2011)