A treat! 51

Candied fruits, chocolates, candied chestnuts, jams, nonsense of Cambrai, or even rahats-Turkish delight ... It is not so much delight in question, this novel lining in the background, which made me what I am relished. This is the saga of Alexandrine Jouve, Audiard wife, patron of the delicacies of business "The delights of Velay" and his three daughters, who fascinated me.
For the author of this admirable book has such talent as a storyteller, a general culture so extensive, and he knows so well his region of Auvergne which he gives us all the charms landscaped, it's a real pleasure to read . Moreover it is so expert in the knowledge of feelings, and I agree so readily to his reasoning and his omnipresent humor that fills me his story.

The novel begins with a long lens sorting session. A whole era! It's not that I love the pebbles, but this evocation is a bit of a madeleine of Proust.
Ah lenses! Already appreciated at the time of Adam and Eve (see the story of Cain and Abel). They are an original start, an entry of choice, in the novel by Jean Anglade. This is surprising, when it is expected other delicacies, under the title.
We can not leave this novel, once it started, and turn the last page is a little frustrating.

Jean Anglade is a truly gifted nonagenarian author, and that's to say! Has it not written in the ninety works already? I just know, these days, it just made another publication, entitled "The living dogs", a very dark novel certainly. It is about three prisoners, former Nazis, guarded by 250 guards and placed under four authorities. What a program! I imagine that this is a valuable novel, "in moral significance, philosophical, even metaphysical," as says a critic of "Telegram of Brest", well known daily. My curiosity is enticed. However I do not know if I'll let me try. Fear of this radical change of atmosphere after so appreciated "The delights of Alexandrine", you understand.

A thousand bravos anyway Jean Anglade for its "Délices".