Before-Yesterday I flannais and I found a good book for a good read

Indeed, before yesterday, strolling in a bookshop where I could not resist a beautiful Used book in superb coverage Gallimard / NRF whose title was "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Roman". On the occasion of the film adaptation, I had heard a lot about this new classic, published in the first edition in 2000, which is now located at the school. After the reading of a Dostoyevsky, a Zola and a Roger Caillois, I wanted to read some literature of the twenty-first century (I am more tests, Biographies, History, Philo. On current releases ); and then, it is interesting to know what they put in the minds of our college / school students.

So today, I literally "swallowed" the 190 pages of "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Roman."
-First Because the style of Dai Sijie is not very complex and relatively simple vocabulary, also note that past tense simply gives tone to the story.
-Then I quickly read because it is a "good book" (not a masterpiece but a good novel for the time), we find amusing anecdotes (such as alarm) in the middle an interesting story.
And the pleasure of the book that the author conveys perfectly.

The story takes place during the years 1971-1973 in Communist China where Chairman Mao thought that it was necessary -in order to avoid gentrification intellectually to send as a laborer for two years, high school students / academics order learn by the book (many red books) and by the action and the difficult lives of small Chinese villages (the idea without its excesses, could have produced interesting things, maybe ...)

The author is highly critical -even a little too much for my taste, this lack of objectivity, I think, but it's clean to freedom of the novelist compared to that of historien- through the history of an autobiographical narrator, Luo, and the Little Seamstress village without electricity life is discovered, ridicule of Communist propaganda (less subtle than that of capitalism), the fraternal friendship with Luo, and the pleasure of the book that the author we present:

-Balzac, Dumas, Roman Rolland with "Jean-Christophe" (Roman-River a musician hero), etc., etc. Besides, after closing the last page of this novel of 2000, the first envy that I came was to take control of "Conquering Power" and "Ursula Mirouët" Balzac; and "The Gambler" by Dostoyevsky and bam! I leave my loved nineteenth century without even asking.
This is a good contemporary novel, in short.