Title : Red Cloud - Christian Gailly - book

Summary :

France Culture Prize (1979-2005) 2000

A man is driving along a country road. He's going home. He's almost there. It would have been too simple: a car is coming towards him, it's his friend Lucien's, but when he passes it, Lucien isn't inside; it's a woman driving, a stranger with a blurred face dominated by red. Who is she? And Lucien, where is he? And this red, what is it? Lipstick? Jam? Blood? It looks like war paint. "Tears and blood, that's what the beautiful title of Christian Gailly's new novel promises. Nuage rouge is the announcement of painted skies, laden with a storm that the prose will constantly repeat, evasive and dilatory, slyly playful. It is also the invention, perhaps, of an original form of fiction: the stuttering thriller. The narrator was a stutterer before his story began, before his tongue loosened as a witness - he will not be a hero of anything, not even of the rather sordid news item that serves as the plot of this gripping book. (Fabrice Gabriel, Les Inrockuptibles) "Christian Gailly's characters are, more than ever, by his own admission, lost souls. Like Rebecca Lodge, the Danish heroine of Nuage rouge, who, "without losing sight of the sun and love", ends up getting lost one summer afternoon on a small road in the Vendée countryside. Multiple variations on the same gesture, infinite oscillations, the marvelously refined art of suspension. Christian Gailly definitely wins the heart." (Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Le Monde) Nuage rouge was published in 2000.

• EAN: 9782707319838
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