A wave waiting moot

You may know, me not at all: from September 1944 to April 1945, the Vichy government went into exile in Germany at Sigmaringen. Pierre Assouline began to tell this episode of the war through the eyes of the castle butler in which Petain and ministers are housed.

The first merit of this novel is to make them want to know more on the subject, reading eg On the other castle of Celine. Another advantage is the quality of its atmosphere. Julius, the butler, as the captain of a ship sinking, observes melancholically bustle around him, his mind elsewhere, resigned witnessed the sinking of all stories.

The reverse of this success, the slow pace and atmosphere of this end of the world is that it is a little bored. Despite some pseudo-police subplots or sentimental, it's hard to hang, to focus on the characters. As for style, if some pages have seduced me, I have also had failures often feel effects of clumsily brought aphorisms, ideas or poorly developed. Generally semi-disappointment.