Gipsy Blues is fictional and free newspaper Runkele Cornelius, a young gypsy twenty years that could, unpretentious, be one with a song by Brassens.
Cornelius is shared between a desire for integration and therefore settlement (which is perhaps not his own desire) and its desire to maintain its gypsy culture and all that it entails.
In 360 pages, Cornelius fight against himself first but also against his inclinations, against his people against their elders who are going to drag on the wrong road, against non-gypsies, against his enemies, against his family .. .
Gipsy Blues is a tale amid "clouds" of Django, a tale about the difficulty that human beings simply live together without judgment. Cornelius, he saw his story as a schizophrenic; it takes the best (and sometimes worst) of each culture. Between the desire to do everything fart and the temptation to close its beak ...
With rage, love and humor of his charismatic hero, Jean Vautrin plunges us into this fascinating gypsy culture - which still represents the largest ethnic minority in Europe - sometimes in my opinion some excesses but still a lot of tenderness.
However, one thing is certain, Vautrin has put all his talent - and his heart - to make his novel a timeless hymn to tolerance and humanity.
I can not recommend this novel that can as opening the heart and esgourdes of all human a human hair ...
(ServaneL.)