Peter Cameron is a writer in the paradoxical status in France widely translated (by Shores editions), available in pocket, but enjoying a very meager knowledge. Its production has a family resemblance to that of Stephen MacCauley, even if it gives less in entertainment literature and seized more serious subjects. "One day this pain will you" is his latest published book (2007). And this is by far his most successful book to me. I devoured it in three days in a kind of euphoria. For the first time, the central character (and narrator) is a young man of eighteen, James Sveck. The title refers to the kind of maxim whose hero was watered by those around him, to make him the pill a disappointing existence. The son of a businessman and a stylish gallery, New York city from head to toe, James has a major problem with the world, and especially with his contemporaries. In intelligence and clarity of amazing spirit, he can not stand mediocrity and masquerades we would like to impose. The only person who finds grace in his eyes is his grandmother, old artist 80 years ago, he visits regularly and with whom he will flee when morale is really low. Most of the novel takes place in summer 2003, while James just out of high school (high school), works in the art gallery of his mother (very little traffic) and should in theory enter a college enough prestigious (Brown). But here: it has not the slightest desire. His only desire would be to buy an old house in the Midwest and escape the studies masquerade. "One day this pain will you" is a satirical novel (very funny) that mocks ferocity without the "liberal" media (in the American sense) New York (but also dirt province). The paradox of retaining James, his reluctance to socialize land, is all the more powerful it has grown into a world freer we can not, easy and open minded: the director of the gallery of his mother is a thirty gay and black, her sister lives free love with a socio-linguist named Rainer Maria (married and otherwise), etc. I will add that even the language of the author of a classic simplicity, strictly speaking, what is pretty well the spirit of the character. Some spoke of the "anti-hero", which I find abusive. James is primarily shifted. His instinctive understanding and his refusal to banality, to the nearly followership and the stay away, but it is without any snobbery.
