Анн Гаррета0.0 Not One Day begins with a maxim: “Not one day without a woman.” What follows is an intimate, erotic, and sometimes bitter recounting of loves and lovers past, breathtakingly written, exploring the interplay between memory, fantasy, and desire.
“For life is too short to submit to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women one does not love.”
Anne Garréta, author of the groundbreaking novel Sphinx (Deep Vellum, 2015), is a member of the renowned Oulipo literary group. Not One Day won the Prix Médicis in 2002, recognizing Garréta as an author “whose fame does not yet match their talent.”
Матиас Энар4.0 Роман Матиаса Энара «Компас» (2015), принесший писателю Гонкуровскую премию, - как ковер-самолет, вольно парящий над Веной и Стамбулом, Парижем и Багдадом, - открывает нам Восток, упоительный, завораживающий, благоуханный, издавна манивший европейских художников, композиторов, поэтов. Весь этот объемный роман-эпопея заключен в рамки одной бессонной ночи, ночи воспоминаний и реальной опасности, ведь главным героям книги меланхоличному Францу и красавице Саре не понаслышке знаком иной Восток: тревожный, обагренный кровью давних войн и взрывами нынешних конфессиональных конфликтов. Этих кабинетных исследователей, рассуждающих о Дебюсси и Бартоке, Низами и Гюго, манят дальние странствия, стрелка их компаса упорно указывает на Восток, но суждено ли им совпасть в одной точке необозримого пространства или арабская вязь их судеб так и не сольется в единый текст?..
Alain Mabanckou0.0 It’s not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There’s that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then there’s the orphanage where he lives, run by a malicious political stooge, Dieudonné Ngoulmoumako, and where he’s terrorized by two fellow orphans—the twins Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala.
But after Moses exacts revenge on the twins by lacing their food with hot pepper, the twins take Moses under their wing, escape the orphanage, and move to the bustling port town of Pointe-Noire, where they form a gang that survives on petty theft. What follows is a funny, moving, larger-than-life tale that chronicles Moses’s ultimately tragic journey through the Pointe-Noire underworld and the politically repressive world of Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s and 80s.
Mabanckou’s vivid portrayal of Moses’s mental collapse echoes the work of Hugo, Dickens, and Brian DePalma’s Scarface, confirming Mabanckou’s status as one of our great storytellers. Black Moses is a vital new extension of his cycle of Pointe-Noire novels that stand out as one of the grandest, funniest, fictional projects of our time.
Эдуард Луи4.4 ‘Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This book is an effort to understand all that.’
Édouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.
It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author’s own. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom?
Кристин Анго0.0 -Christine Angot va gagner. Parce qu'elle ne risque pas de plaire. Elle va trop vite, trop fort, trop loin, elle bouscule les formes, les cadres, les codes, elle en demande trop au lecteur. Elle vient d'avoir quarante ans, elle ecrit depuis quinze ans et, en huit livres (depuis 1990, car elle a mis quatre ans a faire publier son premier roman), elle a enjambe la niaiserie fin de siecle. Elle n'est pas humaniste, elle a fait exploser le realisme, la pseudo-litterature consensuelle, provocante ou faussement etrange, pour poser la seule question, la plus derangeante: quel est le rapport d'un ecrivain a la realite ?-
Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde des livres."
