Title : Flee - Jean-Philippe Toussaint - book
Summary :
Why was I given a cell phone the very day I arrived in China? To locate me permanently, monitor my movements, and keep an eye on me? I had always known subconsciously that my fear of the phone was linked to death—perhaps to sex and death—but never before that night on the train between Shanghai and Beijing would I have such implacable confirmation. “There is a Toussaint ‘style’: quivering, icy, distinguished, raw, offbeat, with a charm all the more painful because it seeps into pages of subtle beauty. There is a Toussaint shimmer, with views of streets, rooms, corridors, shop windows, tiles, silhouettes, water; lots of water, calm, rippled, salty, sweet, a whole undulation of sensations; the author reveals a floating world of illusion that forms a trap. This world hides, under its luminous layers, pain, love at first sight, panic, expectations, feverishness. A narrow, austere, inhabited book, set in a simplicity that surprises in the face of the heavy hardware of the novels of the new season. We say to ourselves that all great novels have their light, and this one shimmers, intelligent and fraternal, disillusioned and aristocratic. Form, style, rigor, punctuation, psychology: it is perfect. " (Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point) Prix Médicis 2005, Fuir is the second part of the novel collection Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, which traces four seasons in the life of Marie, haute couture designer and companion of the narrator: Faire l'amour, hiver (2002); Fuir, été (2005); La Vérité sur Marie, printemps-été (2009, prix Décembre); Nue, automne-hiver (2013).
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EAN: 9782707320957
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