Title : Signs and Wonders - Mallet-Joris Francoise - book

Summary :

Françoise Mallet-Joris is not one of those who write the same book over and over again. On the contrary, her work is striking in its diversity. The icy, classic novel, the novel close to Balzacian realism, the historical novel, the confession... in ten years, she seems to have tackled everything, with the confidence of a writer who easily masters her subject.

Yet, throughout all her works, there is a constant current, a sort of subterranean disquiet, but constant and strong. With Signs and Prodigies, for the first time, Françoise Mallet-Joris "discovers" herself, as they say of wrestlers. She reveals some of her secrets: those of a tormented soul that perhaps resembles her own a little.

Certainly, this new book is a novel, composed with the care of a goldsmith by an artist who knows her craft admirably; that is to say, it is read in one go, and we live with its characters, numerous, distinctive, close to us. But, beyond the novel itself, we ask ourselves questions. Why does Nicolas leave a comfortable situation to engage in a crazy story of hypothetical reporting? Why does he drag into his adventure a young woman he does not believe he loves? Why this bet with himself, this challenge? Is he fleeing a past that weighs on him? Does he obey only the taste for renewal, or for the unknown? Does he let himself be carried by the "prodigies" of chance, or does he respond, on the contrary, to some "sign" whose meaning he does not understand? Is it really he who is called, or is he only destined to serve as a "sign" for others?

So many question marks that would remain unanswered if we did not guess here a necessity, behind the absurdity of appearances, of contradictions; if we did not recognize in this captivating and passionate book, the demands of a faith

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