The Ravey style, this is to imagine its daily intrigues of bottom strand banal and social markers. Often classes saffrontent, more or less violently. Still, the characters deceive each other, the smartest abusing weaker before than being deceived in their turn. It is in the relative banality in an almost motionless narrative author shows his talent, one that consists, basically, to reinvent the genre of the detective story without telling or display it.
His latest album, "The daughter of my best friend," is an example copy. Two beings to drift alongside sy. William has promised his best friend, on his death bed, soccuper her daughter, Matilda. Mathilde, therefore, a beauty that, by dint of frequent psychiatric hospitals, has been removing the right of his son Romeo which now lives with her father and his new girlfriend. Since then, Mathilde survives shot cocktails mixing drugs and alcohol, always on the verge of drifting to the extreme limit of the danger and folly.
On the insistence of Matilda, William the leads in a small town of lEssonne to defy the ban and legal see Romeo. Ignoring major dune ban, likely to cause a lot of trouble, said although the character of the two friends, out lun as other. Soon, we will discover that behind William hides a disreputable multiple personalities, manipulative and improvising to the point of embarking on such bold plans that crappy.
More Mathilde senfonce more William seems to forget all reality and ready to take the most ill-considered risks to pull multiple misstep in which he immersed himself. With diabolical precision, an art that demands respect, Yves Ravey takes us on a social ride and nauseous whose conclusion will necessarily be a surprise or rather a succession of twists.
The book is read with pleasure and with all speed and den should tempt you discover more about this author if you do not know it.
Published by Editions de Minuit 2014 156 pages
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