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"The excuse" Julie Wolkenstein

Who has not experienced in reading a novel the curious impression that the author was talking about him? What reader has not discovered something of himself in the pages of a fiction? Who never had the feeling of reliving a scene written several centuries ago? It is this fantastic resemblance between literature and life explored in Julie Wolkenstein in his novel "The excuse".

Lise returns to live in the house of her aunt on the island of Matha's Vineyard off Cape Cod. This prof. Literature retired immersed himself in his childhood memories as the house of Matha's Vineyard was to her place of all the discoveries, that of America but also the feelings, with his brilliant cousin Nick. The memories of Lisa are refreshed by reading a manuscript titled "Déjà Vu" Nick died prematurely left him, text in which he outlines his interpretation of the life of Lise: Nick's life Lise merely reproduces the Isabel Archer, heroine of "Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

As Isabelle Archer, Lisa left a continent to another, received an inheritance, has rejected a pretender to love an unhappy marriage. Skeptical at the beginning of this rereading of her life exposed in the manuscript of Nick, she ends by questioning the meaning of events that have marked his life: was it handled? Who wrote his life? After a breathless hunt, Lise manage to discover the truth about his own history.

Following the structure of "Portrait of a Lady by Henry James," The excuse "combines two stories: the monologue Lise who remembers his gilded youth to Martha's Vineyard and the manuscript of the novel says that Nick James and analyzes the similarities with the life of his cousin.

Literary game brilliantly led, sensitivity and intelligence, "The excuse" is more than exercise in style. It is a meditation on the powers of literature, a survey quasi-fantasy on the links between fiction and life. To advise all readers who sometimes feel their lives read in the words of a writer.


"The excuse" Julie Wolkenstein, POL, 344 pages, 20 euros.

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"The first principle, the second principle" of Serge Bramly

After "The best part of men", here is another of the new literary novel based on the ambiguous relationship between reality and fiction, which also receives the honors of a jury of literary awards, the Allied this time. With "The first principle, the second principle," a large mural in the style of a John Le Carre, Serge Bramly revisits the dark side of the Mitterrand years. At the center of this teeming novel, five emblematic figures of the 1980s whose paths will cross to the drama.

The origin of this novel, troubling coincidences: that was under the Pont de l'Alma Max Jameson paparazzi when a princess was experiencing a tragic end in a tunnel? This Rastignac photography dead in bizarre circumstances was to close an arms dealer and a friend, a former prime minister whose death has also been written Much ink. Let us add to it an adviser to the Prime Minister and a member of the secret services and the result is a political thriller that takes us to a garden party at the Elysee Palace on the banks of the South China Sea, passing through Africa, the Balkans and Iran.

If the novelist confesses to have relied on a gigantic and documentation if the reader effortlessly recognize what are the personalities who have inspired the various protagonists, confuses the epigraph: "Everything is true. Nothing is true. It's a novel. " And a masterful novel that far from dissolving into reality, the imagination of the novelist is played him to lead us in a clever play between the true, the likely and fiction.

What the reader does not stop at the somewhat pretentious title that refers to two thermodynamic principles ("inexorably cooled by contact with a cold body" and "In a closed system, entropy can only increase ") for grid interpretation of events and plunged without delay in this ambitious thriller.

" The First Principle, the second principle, "by Serge Bramly, JC Lattes, 616 p., 22 euros.

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"The best part of men" Tristan Garcia

Billed as the revelation This new literary award and the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia delivers a teeming fresco on the 1980s, with the backdrop of the emergence of AIDS , the constitution of gay movements and struggles which agitated the microcosm of Parisian intellectual.

Under the eyes of Elizabeth, the narrator, a journalist for Libération , three men compete Dominica Rossi said " Doumé " former leftist activist, who founded Stand, the first movement emancipation of homosexuality in France, her lover William Miller "Will " Young gay head burned without entering the world of ideas without having the keys and Jean-Michel Leibowitz, intellectual mediated who wages war against the doctrinaire.
Doumé Will love and then hate each other, the domestic quarrel turns into a political confrontation since the two men compete in the time when the gay community beset by AIDS cares. While Doumé fight for integration and prevention, Willie went to war against his former lover and claims his freedom to "fuck without condoms," that choice it says loudly blows of public scandals, the midges of stunts. After this battle, Doumé runs old days living on his income, Leibowitz Minister and finally the young Will that reaping what it sowed and dies alone in hospital.

This first novel is a beautiful diving in the years AIDS and achieves the power to revive an era, with a joyful spirit and insolence. "The best part of men" it captures the irony contained in that title, since the novel excels in describing what has been the worst time: hatred, dishonesty, opportunism, media lynching, community disputes ...

Two small flats however, preventing this brilliant first attempt to be a masterstroke.

Is it to erase the side "Normale who can write" that Tristan Garcia falls into the opposite extreme, a style too much "neglected" in the way Yann Moix (but better anyway)? If this writing is wonderfully relaxed in the dialogues when mimics the orality, it has a frustrating side in the narrative passages.
Moreover, despite the author's warning: "This is not a moral tale autofiction . It's the story, I have not lived in a community and a generation torn by AIDS , in neighborhoods where I never lived, "the reader can not help recognized under the mask of the protagonists of real people. Writing Tristan Garcia had enough force to do without this artifice then .

remains, after reading a question in the novel, the characters write books as the quickdraw revolver : that whenever a character wants revenge, he wrote a book to break his opponent, he inevitably comes to the reader the following question: assuming that the author works as his characters, who or what he wanted revenge with "The better part of men"?

"The best part of men" of Tristan Garcia, Gallimard, 307 p., 18.50 €.

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A trip in Andalusia: What guides you?

Difficult to choose their travel guide. Because it needs to square the circle contain enough practical information to prepare for the trip, help navigate the city with plans readable, offering detailed comment on Monuments and Sites ... while leaving room the unexpected ...

For a small one-week stay in Seville and Cordoba, I left with 4 guides:

Blue Guide Southern Spain: Andalusia, Murcia
Strengths: Art, history, civilization, The most comprehensive guide of the cultural perspective. The main museums are commented room by room. Special mention for the literary excerpts.

Weaknesses: Good overall plans but no little plans of districts. No address book. Few illustrations.

To whom? The reader of the Blue Guide is a pure spirit, he is not eating, not sleeping and is not shopping. In contrast, the Blue Guide will satisfy the intellectual demanding.

Blue Guide Southern Spain: Andalusia, Murcia, Hachette Tourisme, Guides blue collection, March 2005, 512P., € 23.90.

Guide Gallimard Andalusia-Seville
Strengths: The wealth of illustrations: photographs, drawings, diagrams to better understand the architectural explanations.

Weaknesses: The text is sometimes too short especially for Cordoba, which deserved further developments. Good plans together, but the neighborhood maps are not very readable. Address book too brief.

To whom? : The Gallimard guide is for lovers of images.

Guide Andalucia - Seville, encyclopedic collection of foreign travel, Gallimard 2007
432 pages, € 29.00.


Backpacker's Guide Andalucia 2008
Strengths: a wealth of places to stay and eat for all budgets. Practical information useful to prepare the trip.

Weaknesses: some non-existent iconography and cultural developments.

To whom? broke the tourist will find really good shots.

Andalusia Backpacker's Guide 2008, Hachette, 450 p., € 12.90.

A long weekend in Seville
Strengths: The signposted summarized in a small map of the area very convenient. Good addresses.

Weaknesses: very Cultural Information poor. More pages devoted to trendy fashion boutiques as monuments. A vision of the city very superficial.

To whom? The "fashionista" bobos in search of trendy places.

"A great weekend in Seville, Hachette, collection a great weekend, 144 p., April 2008, 10.75 €.

Overall, I recommend preparing his trip with the Routard (transport, accommodation) and, locally, using the routes in "a big weekend, completing with cultural information Guide blue and Gallimard.