Dark and difficult shift of humanity

This associate professor of French, who teaches at the University of Nancy, you probably know his two previous novels, Grey Souls, published in 2003 by Stock which won the Renaudot prize, and the granddaughter of Mr. Linh, published in 2005 still with Stock. This is the same publishing house that published the latest literary season his novel Brodeck The report, which received the Prix Goncourt High Schoolers from year end.

Situating its history once again during the war, Philippe Claudel who writes often serious things, often tragic, but always illuminated by lights or hopes, queries the drive on his humanity and his will to forget, to erase or keep in memory . I wanted to observe humanity when it becomes inhuman, he said in an interview. Is it better period than the war to evoke the drift of men and spirits?

In a place without a name and a story undated quon includes being a village dune border region of Germany after World War Brodeck is charged by the inhabitants of his village to prepare a report on an event having just happen, a night when the spirits are heated by alcohol and vehemence of the number. More affected by the suggestion that lévidence by Philippe Claudel never named anything, and leaves the reader to understand itself in ugly past events descriptions and little clues that it slips.

The report Brodeck is a dark and difficult novel, describing what humanity slip that occurs when the effect of the group dilutes the conscience and guilt. Rejection of the differences, the other mistrust, one who does not speak the same language or the same manner didnt, as many topics as Brodeck addresses in a report that he wrote secretly and in parallel the official report commissioned by the village. The only complaint quon will find this novel would be one of the permanent blurring, supposed to focus the reader on the history background, not the scenery. A preferred in almost Grey Souls