The regular heart , Olivier Adam, Editions de l'Olivier, 2010 Every new book of Olivier Adam is a revelation to me. This author is one of the few that move me as much. Since I read Cliffs, trafficked, each of his books makes me cry.
What this man lived to tell of how sensitive the lives of broken men and women, characters often a dramatic turn and capital of their existence?
How this young author (born 1974) extrasensible can slip so perfectly into the skin of his characters?
How this young author (born 1974) extrasensible can slip so perfectly into the skin of his characters?
Each story tells us that Olivier Adam therefore has its starting point dramatically: the loss of a spouse ( contrary winds), the plight of illegal immigrants ( Shelter from nothing ), survival and mourning ( Cliffs ), still mourning ( The heart regular).
But people who are dealing with these tragedies, these survivors somehow always emerge and grow rich experience. The human adventure is never all black or all white, Olivier Adam still lingers in the gray areas in the bends and cracks appearing in front of a large wind, the image of the rugged cliffs that so fond of describing, imperfect and wild, and near which he now lives in St. Malo. In
regular The heart, we meet Sarah, devastated by the death of his brother Nathan, who was not well and she feels guilty for not helping and failing to prevent her from leaving.
regular The heart, we meet Sarah, devastated by the death of his brother Nathan, who was not well and she feels guilty for not helping and failing to prevent her from leaving.
At the edge, discovering that his smooth life with a husband just as smooth and children who do not see it makes more happier, she decided to leave also, Japan, in the footsteps of his missing brother.
Dry and dead, that's what I became (p.67)
She met there Natsume, whom his brother stayed. This man, retired from the police, decided to save the candidate Suicide wanting to jump off cliffs (cliffs yet!) of this Japanese village. Nathan seemed to have found peace with this man.
Olivier Adam tells Sarah that grows from Japan, the slow descent into madness and depression at the announcement of the death of beloved brother, lies, suffering, incomprehension, to the meeting with Louise The love with Nathan, who will give Sarah the opportunity - and why - to go to Japan, Nathan called his Promised Land.
Through the description of these two beings so different from the others, almost antisocial, one heading straight toward a wall, the other fleeing by social conventions (marriage, children, stable job but she hates), the author talks about the different social more marked among people, the world of work increasingly inhuman, social climbing through it, and suicide, through his character of "savior", described by little touches: "Nobody wants to die. everyone wants to live. Only at certain periods of your life, it just becomes impossible. "(P.137)
Olivier Adam tells Sarah that grows from Japan, the slow descent into madness and depression at the announcement of the death of beloved brother, lies, suffering, incomprehension, to the meeting with Louise The love with Nathan, who will give Sarah the opportunity - and why - to go to Japan, Nathan called his Promised Land.
Through the description of these two beings so different from the others, almost antisocial, one heading straight toward a wall, the other fleeing by social conventions (marriage, children, stable job but she hates), the author talks about the different social more marked among people, the world of work increasingly inhuman, social climbing through it, and suicide, through his character of "savior", described by little touches: "Nobody wants to die. everyone wants to live. Only at certain periods of your life, it just becomes impossible. "(P.137)
If I learned anything from the world of business and labor in general is that there intolerant low, that any fault must withheld, denied any weakness, any fatigue fought and forgotten, a significant part of ourselves must be left to the locker room, like a suit that does Renfile once the evening (p.99)
The return on the lives of Sarah and Nathan gives rise to some thoughts touching on brotherhood:
I went back over the weekend. For my sister. It was still a child and I felt abandoned and lost. It seemed that the word sister did not have the same meaning for Nathan. "(P.170)
biting and some thoughts on being a woman, particularly in France (Ah, my dear country! Do not you regret this point of view!), when this "motivational seminar" with colleagues Sarah bordering on misogyny, or restaurant
[ ...] I ordered a whiskey, the boy gave me a disapproving glance, I wondered what he might have to fuck, I wondered if I would have started the same look if I had been a man. (P.119)
With the heart regular , Olivier Adam gives us another excellent novel that is read in one sitting, a novel recognizable. Yes, Olivier Adam Olivier's written Adam.
The line may seem a bit forced on the particular character of Nathan, tormented soul in rebellion against everything and everyone, and furthermore alcoholic writer missed ...
But aside from these little déjà vu, it is always deeply touching script.
The line may seem a bit forced on the particular character of Nathan, tormented soul in rebellion against everything and everyone, and furthermore alcoholic writer missed ...
But aside from these little déjà vu, it is always deeply touching script.
I know what I need. Relieve me, feel. Forget, opened the door. Collect. Let the sun warm my skin, the air entering my lungs, my water diluted. I feel a heart beat regular. (P. 187)
Criticism of Telerama
As I write this, I listen Shannon Wright Secret Blood (Vicious Circle / Munich, 2010)
And then, a small link for you to go sign the petition to protect the rights of author in Quebec ...
