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.
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 €.
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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