Title : I'm Leaving - Jean Echenoz - book

Summary :

Goncourt Prize 1999

I'm Leaving won the Prix Goncourt in 1999. Leaving your wife isn't enough; you have to go further. Félix Ferrer therefore sets off for a trip to the North Pole where a treasure buried in the ice floes has been waiting for him for half a century. "I'm leaving," these are the first words spoken by the hero of Echenoz's novel, who has just decided to leave his wife. They are also the last words of the book, uttered by this same hero when, after a year of wandering and adventure, his heart broken, he returns to haunt what was once his marital home. The circle is complete, the revolution is over, the parenthesis is closed, the hero has simply aged a little. He has experienced adventures that one would call thrilling because of the disorders of his heart muscle, he has gone to the North Pole to recover a treasure of ancient Eskimo art, he has been robbed and thief, swindler and swindled, seducer and seduced, he has lived. All that remains of him is a vague unease and a shortness of breath. From book to book, since The Greenwich Meridian, Jean Echenoz has made himself the cartographer of his time. Of its earthquakes, its catastrophes, its imagination, its objects, its dreams and its long slide out of reality: in images, in fantasies, in reveries of conquest, in the distance from oneself and from others. I am leaving is also the farewell formula of a century quite incapable of knowing where it is going and which even forgets to ask itself the question. It is leaving, that's all. (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde)

• EAN : 9782707317711
  
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