Title : The Malay Team - Jean Echenoz - book

Summary :

Jean Echenoz is building one of the most original and fruitful literary enterprises in contemporary French fiction: the subversion of the novel through gentle destabilization. On the surface, everything seems calm, or almost. L'Équipée malaise tells the comical adventures of two men, Jean-François and Charles, whose disappointed love for the same woman leads one to a rubber plantation in Malaysia, the other among the tramps of Paris. They will meet again many years later, embroiled without much faith in a sordid plot, with arms traffickers, devious natives, a contraband tub, and operetta mutineers. A cardboard novel, with actors who systematically play beyond their roles. But everything, precisely, in this book, is played out aside, with this tiny gap which means that nothing ever fits, without us being able to say precisely at what moment, in what margin, the distortions occurred, when we detached ourselves from reality - from what we call reality in novels - to find ourselves in a sort of no man's land where nothing is right, where the clothes are too small or too big, where the images do not correspond to the words which accompany them, where the consequences and the causes which should produce them do not really follow one another. (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde)

• EAN : 9782707316875
  
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