At 95 years, Henry Bauchau, poet, novelist, playwright and psychoanalyst offers us a meditation on death and the presence of the dead in us.
To visit his stepdaughter who is dying of cancer, the narrator travels every day on the ring road, which as a Styx bitumen separates the living from the dead. But Bauchau, the dead are in Hell, they are still present within us and influence, light or evil is still felt. Traversing this path crosses the narrator unearths the depths of his memory, the memory of two missing men today, two opposing figures between which he had to navigate: Stéphane, the attractive man, full of grace and lightness, and its dark double, Shadow, the incarnation of evil. The old man tries to understand the fascination that these two figures have had on him, young man, and analyzes the struggle between these two men the Shadow SS killed Stéphane resistant: "I, too, is heavy with my cargo of hopes , desires, loves facing the small boat and the great white sail Stéphane. Both have gone much further than me in real life, Shadow in gravity, in the harsh world of complexity, Stéphane in relief, a joy for injured life, in an uprising plant that comes from the earth without knowing if there is a sun. " This novel
vibrant and luminous poetic style has won the book award in 2008 Inter.
Henry Bauchau, "the beltway", Actes Sud, 256 p., 19,50 €
To visit his stepdaughter who is dying of cancer, the narrator travels every day on the ring road, which as a Styx bitumen separates the living from the dead. But Bauchau, the dead are in Hell, they are still present within us and influence, light or evil is still felt. Traversing this path crosses the narrator unearths the depths of his memory, the memory of two missing men today, two opposing figures between which he had to navigate: Stéphane, the attractive man, full of grace and lightness, and its dark double, Shadow, the incarnation of evil. The old man tries to understand the fascination that these two figures have had on him, young man, and analyzes the struggle between these two men the Shadow SS killed Stéphane resistant: "I, too, is heavy with my cargo of hopes , desires, loves facing the small boat and the great white sail Stéphane. Both have gone much further than me in real life, Shadow in gravity, in the harsh world of complexity, Stéphane in relief, a joy for injured life, in an uprising plant that comes from the earth without knowing if there is a sun. " This novel
vibrant and luminous poetic style has won the book award in 2008 Inter.
Henry Bauchau, "the beltway", Actes Sud, 256 p., 19,50 €
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