Another jewel Alain Jaubert

Magnificent novel which recounts the first 11 years of the little Anthony. Since its birth in 1940 in the bombing to its investment in a religious institution. As always with the author of the masterpiece "Val Paradis", the text is deep, smart, thin and sensitive.
The reader attaches increasingly to the small Antoine through the pages, his discovery of the world, women, its metaphysical questions, his wanderings in Paris, his vacation Trégastel, ...
It is a moving book and delivers many keys to understanding the author.
There phrases on the power of literature that have resonated with me considerably. For Anthony, as soon as he learned to read, has greatly refuge in books. Poetry has even saved his life when he received only punishment and bullying in religious boarding school.
In today's world where the book becomes more and more a luxury item and where the immediate, the screen replace increasingly back, thinking, thinking, "Blackboards" ABSOLUTE shows the power of the book. This is the most powerful medium to bring us the dream, travel, escape. And reciting Ronsard in his head can help heal many wounds.
The end of the book is beautiful and opens to infinity. We find Antoine later in Valparaiso ... In the other novel ...
Alain Jaubert author remains a somewhat confidential and it is a shame because his talent is considerable.
To discover without waiting for those who still hesitate ...
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