The corpuscles of Krause, Sandra Gordon, Leméac Publishing, 2010
According to the Larousse dictionary, Krause's corpuscles are "small rounded corpuscles found in the connective tissue in the oral mucosa.
They appear to play a role in the perception of cold and pressure. "
On the Wikipedia site can find additional information:" It would appear that these receptors play a role in pleasure as they are present on the glans penis and clitoris.. " Ah well.
"I stumbled upon the term. I have noted some hand and I did a little research. At the time I worked in a hospital, so I took the opportunity to make some loan requests Documentation Centre - a sort of small library where one could bring in articles in medical journals. It allowed me to practice my English. What I read helped me to build a part of the structure of the atmosphere, cohesion and character. Filigree. I saw the corpuscles of Krause as a faculty desiring a check engine human. And I went mainly from that. "
Lucia, a young woman of 24 years scorched by life, left Montreal in the wheel of his rabbit north. His car breaks down in a village in the Laurentians, Design. Until it can run again, Lucia moves to a room above the restaurant in the village and mingle with some of the inhabitants of the place, all the more endearing than the others.
Meanwhile, Henry Korsakoff alcoholic and aging writer, takes his old carcass in search of his own books he wants to destroy a large stake.
What is striking in this first novel, is not so much the style, sometimes confusing and convoluted that the author's great affection for her characters, she portrays a realistic, larger than life . The waitress with a heart to cook the restaurant, a man of many talents, not forgetting of course the central character of Lucia, fragile and that we feel on the thin line between darkness and light. His taste for gin will not help to always get better.
All these beings will come closer thanks to the presence of Lucy, and the latter will find in them a new family, far from toc Sex and fast food she had in Montreal with Geoffrey, who abused her.
If the style seemed to me sometimes opaque, we can not say that Sandra Gordon has no talent for dialogue or that it lacks a punchy tone. But it seemed to me that certain passages would have deserved to be shortened and tightened the writing in places.
Sandra Gordon wrote for several years on his blog and the language is sometimes be handled more naturally in this first novel. But all this does not alter the fact that Quebec remains an author to watch, and this book, which would have gone unnoticed without the work of Rookie of the month, listing all first novels by Quebec authors, is to learn to hear a new and original voice.
A tasty interview Sandra Gordon for Rookie of the Month site
Sandra Gordon's blog
Article in Press
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