With his tenth novel, "The Road of Enchantment," Nathalie Rheims continues his exploration of childhood, memory and mourning. It demonstrates once again that the work of the imagination and the unconscious is no less important than the daytime activity and conscious. After a table in "The dream of Balthus," these are the tales of our childhood that serve to mirror a woman in search of itself.
The narrator of "Road of Enchantment" Roland found a man who was the lover of his mother and who has retired from 10 years ago. Each evening, the man who was his childhood his confidant, laid upon his desk a tale of "Sleeping Beauty" the first day, "The Little Match Girl" last. So begins a journey of initiation where dreams, memories, reading stories resonate, mingle and merge into a long monologue. The author uses stories as a palimpsest entangling them in the internal discourse of the narrator, thus orchestrating between fiction and life a rich set of mirrors, trompe l'oeil and echo.
The reader who enters a novel by Nathalie Rheims is projected in a fantasy world where the boundaries between dreams and reality are blurred. Like a magician of words, Nathalie Rheims knows how to create atmospheres of haunting, haunted by the memory of the dead. An existential quest more exciting than a thriller and shows how sometimes reality needs the turn of the imagination to happen.
The narrator of "Road of Enchantment" Roland found a man who was the lover of his mother and who has retired from 10 years ago. Each evening, the man who was his childhood his confidant, laid upon his desk a tale of "Sleeping Beauty" the first day, "The Little Match Girl" last. So begins a journey of initiation where dreams, memories, reading stories resonate, mingle and merge into a long monologue. The author uses stories as a palimpsest entangling them in the internal discourse of the narrator, thus orchestrating between fiction and life a rich set of mirrors, trompe l'oeil and echo.
The reader who enters a novel by Nathalie Rheims is projected in a fantasy world where the boundaries between dreams and reality are blurred. Like a magician of words, Nathalie Rheims knows how to create atmospheres of haunting, haunted by the memory of the dead. An existential quest more exciting than a thriller and shows how sometimes reality needs the turn of the imagination to happen.
"The path of Enchantment" by Nathalie Rheims Editions Leo Scheer, 2008, 180 pages, 14 €.
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