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.
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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