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Two very different books and great little game

The small and old , Marie-Renée Lavoie, editor XYZ Collection Romanies, 2010

Infrared , Nancy Huston, Proceedings South / Leméac, 2010

Editions XYZ offers a small collection called Romanies, who introduces us to young writers in Quebec. This is the case with the novel by Marie-Renée Lavoie The small and old , published last year.

The author was born in 1974 Limoilou in Quebec City. She holds an MA in literature from Laval University in Quebec. She currently teaches literature at Maisonneuve College, Montreal. In this

first novel (Marie-Renée Lavoie explains in this interview she has written other novels, including one that was published by his high school), we follow the adventures of Helen, daughter of eight years dream of a heroic life, as in her favorite soap opera, Lady Oscar .

Helen claims to have ten years, allowing it to distribute the newspapers in his district Limoilou in Quebec City. She lives with her father, a bit sad and always focused on alcohol, and his mother very authoritarian, and then "any c'è! "and its sisters she loves, especially the youngest, Catherine.

She befriends the old Roger, his new neighbor who quietly awaits death all day long, with a few beers. This relationship will confront a number of events and help them have a different perspective on his family and his life. Helen, who still prefers to be called Joe, will mature and grow with its vision "on" of life and a colorful imagination.

The vivid language of Helen does not diminish his candor or his romanticism. Helen plays p'tites tough, but basically she just wants to help everyone, including his parents by giving them the money they earn by distributing newspapers or working at bingo in the neighborhood.

Pierre Foglia in his column of April 20, 2010 , writes about this book: " if you do not read that book either, so it is all well finished reading, that one was really written to be read, believe me. "

The small and old is indeed a time of reading as we like, fresh, imaginative and authentic. A moment of pleasure, despite the misfortunes that are narrated, the small miseries of everyday life that receives as little Helene tests to overcome with courage and humility.

The interview with the issuance You'll read as , June 6, 2010

Criticism in Press by Sylvie St-Jacques

Criticism of Duty by Suzanne Giguere

In a completely different style, Leméac / Actes Sud, I discovered the latest book by Nancy Huston, Infrared .
is the story of Rena, photographer, Diane Arbus passionate , an American photographer with a tragic destiny, who will spend a week in Florence with his father and stepmother. It leaves Paris at her young lover, Aziz.

The narrative is divided by days of the week spent in the Italian city and is divided between the present moments that Rena spends with his father and stepmother, to discover the museums of Florence and Tuscany, and evocations the past of the heroine, often thoughts provoked by the vision of the various works of art. With personal confidences that Rena made her imaginary friend Subra (anagram of Arbus), one discovers the troubled past and turbulent Rena and her family, which also allows us understand its uncertain relationship with his father.

Hell apprehended by Rena appears as expected, resulting in anger, misunderstanding, and then gradually acceptance and forgiveness. Alongside the relationship father / daughter, Rena talks about his photographic approach, set on a special film, infrared, heat zones bodies of men she loves to photograph for the sexual pleasure or just after the ecstasy.

Author Nancy Huston gives us here a very interesting discussion on several topics which run through her work on a regular basis : Sexuality, relationships between men and women, art, motherhood. She wanted to show "how women think men , giving them a clean look, which is rather rare in literature, as it has been seen too often.

Nancy Huston says: "Infrared is a great declaration of love to men," she said. It is a book about men. Macho men are not real men. Real men do not need all the trappings that are used by macho. "

And if I was expecting a very sexual book, the very famous scenes well written and very enjoyable (which is rare) are always integrated to serve the story and learn more about this bold woman (in the words of the author) but also a little lost.
Florence, the city beautiful, the city of David by Michelangelo perfect, beautifully described by the author (it makes you want to go back!), Also lends itself also to sensual thoughts. And in this city, Rena goes to meet his last resistance against men, against his father and a mother also faces missing, missing, missing piece in the puzzle of life of heroin.

A Swiss critic

An interview in Paris-Match

Criticism in Press by Eric Clement


[Lætitia The Clech]

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