Unclean is surprising at first. Already it's hot there! Its original title, Dirt, could have found a translation as "unhealthy" and give a good overview of the thread of the story, although the hero, Galen, is haunted by a spiritual quest of "purity" and healthy life.
Galen is a young man about twenty dune dannée who still lives with his mother in a kind of fusion love / hate stuffy. His mother herself lives in dependence on his own senile mother, archetype of the old cantankerous dotage, dune retirement home resident, and distributing financial random annuity to his two daughters, whose jealousy and mutual hatred that saccroître over ambient favoritism one or the other is the object.
This already tense situations reaches its apogee in a living gathering the family in the country house. All the elements of a classic David Vann gathered scenario: a cut house in the world in nature, a family that hates locked together to satisfy the pecuniary and devious motives.
Only where things become gangrenous more, this is that Galen is completely obsessed with his cousin Jenifer, and that it didnt stop until maneuver and denflammer one considers what a marginal despicable.
The second part of the novel senfonce drift further into psychosis and family, this time around in a closed session between mother and son, suffocating and unhealthy.
This book will leave a bitter and a little sickening sensation that the author completely controls.
In a previous interview that David Vann had given us on the occasion of the release of Wastes, the author talked to us on these terms Dirt: "This time there will be no dAlaska, no father, no suicide or Dile. But a mother and her son in a burning landscape. "
Family problems didnt finished haunt David Vann. If his first two books addressed the paternal figure, combined cold and icy landscapes, this is now the mother figure, embodied in a dry heat that is pervasive here peeled.
This is an interesting book, hard and ruthless, maybe less affordable than what we were used to. The second part is suffering from many lengths, but fans of the author will not be completely disappointed.
Emma Breton
