In his latest novel, the author takes on a whole new angle of attack inspired by receiving and reading numerous letters from readers and the chance encounter on a train, dune passenger who wanted to all strengths tell him his life, convinced that, only, the transcript fictionalized, could help him deal with them. Although, as Reinhardt is careful to declare it ny has, in the end, in "Lamour and forests" quune history made from scratch from limaginaire of the writer, it nen remains that without these stimuli unsolicited, probably the novel naurait not emerged.
Many minutes of novelistic framework on which we will focus not unduly be found. It seems more important to us to look which makes this novel a haunting and ultimately fascinating book, it must be lavouer.
First, taking the wrong way the current trend, Eric Reinhardt written with a language lon thought to have sunk forever. A rich language, made of very long sentences and often senchaînent worked without interruption on daffilée pages. A descriptive language, often lyrical, sometimes very raw, very romantic as the point where the overload sometimes lurks. But here is a writer who knows the interest awaken by the power of his prose beyond what he tries to tell us, and this is rare enough to be noticed.
Then, as he declared himself in interviews, Reinhardt sest projected doubling in his novel. At Houellebecq by putting himself on stage, becoming one who collects the confessions into a story under the same name of the author of the book we hold hands. We are of this view to the extreme edges of lautofiction quite popular at the moment dailleurs. But more fundamentally, this is in its main female character, Bénédicte Ombredanne (whose own name is a program and misfortunes dobscurité little quon to read it with a stressed vowel at the end), the literature teacher adrift, psychologically martyred by a despicable husband, Reinhardt found to project. He had long sought a character capable dincarner her women's doubles and obviously found here
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Taking a step back, it does not lack BE struck by the fact that "Lamour and forests" is a novel appearances. Actual psychological distress Bénédicte apparently created by a husband apparently perverse manipulator. Apparently only because many characteristics of a psychopath do not exist here, starting with their side irresistibly seductive. Appearance of the sincerity of Benedict we understand the last part of the book which is somewhat marred by disturbing sequences, remained hidden to those who thought everything about this woman. Appearance of violence passionate adulterous adventure dune we do not know if it was real or dreamed, sincere or simply a distraction to expel intolerable tension. Appearance of a normal couple (assembled from the start for the wrong reasons, out of spite, not love) for third when everything turns into a nightmare when the closed domestic door.
This is the game and this permanent slippage between what one understands and what remains suggested as a possible making power of the novel that constantly oscillates between the poignant lintime, introspection, confusion, lyricism, funny or trivial.
Although the authors could have sy walnut. Despite some lengths and rehearsals, Eric Reinhardt manages to hold his reader spellbound by Bénédicte a disturbing contemporary heroine of a novel by the great nineteenth Villiers Ladam on which Benedict wrote his dagrégation memory.
Published by Editions Gallimard 2014 368 pages
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