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Encyclopaedia capricious and nothing at all "by Charles Dantzig

As part of a long literary tradition dating back to the "Notes bedside," poetic lists established in the eleventh century Japanese courtesan Sei by Shônagon (and which inspired Peter Greenaway's film "The Pillow Book", which is extracted from the photo that serves banner to this blog), Charles Danzig gives a new dimension to the list with the book's most surprising of this literary season winter Encyclopaedia capricious and nothing at all. "

Those already yawning boredom before the 800 pages of lists can reassure the lists according to Danzig are more than mere enumerations at Ben Schott (author of the bestseller "The Miscellany of Mr. Schott) . True Zelig literature, Danzig juggles styles and moves brilliantly pithy slamming an inventory as a haiku (like the list of titles containing the word "Sunday") to a finely chiseled portrait, slips into the skin of the great moralists time a meditation on cities, love or Venice, a tribute forwards (sublime pages on Proust and Fitzgerald) by elegant sketches before pinning humorous ambitious, vain, literary critics and bad writers (and he cites names!).

As in his "Dictionary of French literature selfish," the author sometimes annoying - for example, why does he want to Rodin's Balzac describes it as "caretaker of the Boulevard Raspail? - and we want to contradict him, but these annoyances are short lived because as scholarship, of enthusiasm and humor admirable. In a lively style and elegant enameled aphorisms, he shares his enthusiasm for "places of extravaganzas, Venice, New York, dancers, and his loathing for Flaubert, Guy Debord," idol of fools "or marriage. A delicious blend that is savored line by line.

Encyclopaedia capricious and nothing at all " Charles Danzig, Grasset, 784 p., € 24.90.

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The literary season in January (1): Selection French novels

While most Stakhanovists readers are not yet come to the end of the stacks of books from the beginning of September, the tide carries literary January 558 novels. Compared to September, traditionally the start of winter favors the authors confirmed, detached from the race for literary prizes. There are also more foreign authors in the fall, a trend reinforced in 2009 (211 against 180 foreign novels last year).

Small selection of French novels and foreign- soon-that seem promising:

Among previous winners of the Goncourt - very likely to publish this winter-three caught our attention, Makine, Rambaud and Rouaud. With "The life of a stranger," says Andrei Makine return to his native Russia for a dissident writer. Hope to find ample prose and poetry that had made the success of the "French Testament" (Threshold 292 p. € 19.95). Jean Rouaud continues after "The Jewish Bride", to explore the romantic encounter with "The Promised Woman" (Gallimard 422p. 21 €). In a very different kind, Patrick Rambaud publishes its " Second column of the reign of Nicolas 1 'where we find the verve and caustic of the previous volume (Grasset 176p. € 13.50). Let

of the Goncourt Goncourt almost-Olivier Adam, who, after the tearful "In the shelter of nothing," publishing "headwinds" in the editions of the Olive Tree. This novel praised by the press (including Telerama http://www.telerama.fr/livres/des-vents-contraires, 37910.php ) tells the story of a man faced with the disappearance of his wife (L Olivier 254p. 20 €).

Note "Below the Clouds" by Marc Dugain, the author from "The Curse of Edgar" which traces seven portraits of men (Flammarion, 316p. 20 €). Finally, for lovers of scholarly flights, "The Time Travellers" by Philippe Sollers who enjoys a very favorable: in Point Marc Lambron refers to "a relieved and Sollers attacker sprayed waves precise calligraphy which mantras "(Gallimard 250p. € 17.90).

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Frédéric Ferney and Boat Free

Frédéric Ferney opened last few days writing a blog "The boat free" whose name echoes the book boat, excellent literary show he hosted 12 years on France 5 before being "fired" in June 2008.

Facilitator, literary critic Point intends to continue his fight on the web for literature: "My sole purpose is to share with you the intimate emotions. Hate literature is rife everywhere in France, not only on television. It is therefore necessary to fight. "

By early this year of crisis-culture? - Find the requirement, enthusiasm and culture of Ferney is something comforting.

http://fredericferney.typepad.fr/mon_weblog/

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'Val de Grace "Colombe Schneck

It is the story of a little rich girl who lived in a magical palace named Val de Grace. His parents fulfill all his wishes on a "parents owe everything to their children, their children owe them nothing." Dove was the life of luxury, calm and chocolate mousse. At 6 years old, she left the U.S. to dance with Fred Astaire or hunt the monster of Loch Ness in Scotland. But one day the fairy tale turns to tragedy, the walls of the palace craquèlent, curtains and tarnish the spoiled little girl is expelled from the paradise of childhood to discover the adult world with its attendant ills, illness , death, money worries. If

'Val de Grace "was a drafting of the little dove in 4th grade, there is no doubt that his entourage would ecstatic. The concern is that more than forty years, Dove still writes like a schoolgirl. This autofiction quickly written and quickly read by a sin haphazard construction and a lack of pace: it's bland, it's pasty: the marshmallow! Suggest to the young Dove the following subject: Discuss this quote by Andre Gide: "It is with fine sentiments that we made the wrong literature."

'Val de Grace "Colombe Schneck, Stock, 144p. € 14.50.

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" Breaking waves "Claudie Gallay

is the story of a place at the end of the world, a small Normandy village lost in the ocean. A man returns after years of absence. The narrator, a woman in her forties, ornithologist, observed, and the approach will help to discover the truth about the shipwreck that killed his parents and brother. In "breaking", it also crosses Max, the village idiot, Lili's Bistro owner, an old Nan who sometimes loses the right, Raphael, who sculpts the pain, his sister Morgan, Theo the old lighthouse keeper .. . As in previous novels, Claudie Gallay interested in people with little, to solitary in the margin, outside the modern world, skinned alive are haunted by ghosts. But much more than men, the main characters of the novel, are the elements, wind and sea, which upset the fates and sow the storm in the hearts and bodies.

Reading these 500 pages to the strange atmosphere, where Greek tragedy interfere in mundane to reveal the violence, the reader can not but be struck by the pace of the prose clear and without emotion Claudie Gallay and then understand the reasons for the success of this fine novel, praised by booksellers.

"Breaking waves" Claudie Gallay, Editions du Rouergue, 525 pages, 21,50 €.