2023-11-29 15:33:05
The new life is the title of the first novel by Tom Crewe, he met many readers and critical enthusiasm in New York and London. The Book Club takes advantage of its visit to Paris to talk regarding this text which depicts the decadent movement, the sexual and intellectual aspirations of a whole part of this society which wanted to see the old world and its ideas fall. In this first novel by Tom Crewe, we witness the birth of a literary work in England of the Victorian era, we grasp at the deepest, most sensitive level, what this literary project carries that is broader than itself. Thinking regarding sexuality fresh once more, detaching it from human reproduction, taking it out of conjugality alone, thinking once morest the criminalization of homosexuality, in short, putting an end to an old vision of the world to move towards a new ethics, a new economy, new morals: a new life.
A fog bathes the text as if the advent of these changes had to come from there, from a troubled period, where we no longer see very clearly. Of course, if the book totally embraces the romantic ambition, historical figures like those of the poet Walt Whitman, or that of the novelist Oscar Wilde, sentenced to two years of forced labor for his homosexuality in 1895 appear, and make the link with the historical discipline with which Tom Crewe is otherwise familiar.
The voice note
The question from Noé@noe_de_coco:
“Regarding the legitimacy of struggles, do you always have to be directly concerned by a subject to take part in it?”
The great game of musical pages
The principle of the great game of musical pages is simple. As soon as a reader notices the mention of a musical tune during a reading, he or she takes a photo of the passage and sends it to us via the Book Club’s Instagram, or to the address email [email protected].
Today, the find comes to us from Margot aka @drfolamoule. This is the book Alain Pacadis, face B of Charles Salles (The Round Table, 2023)
Musical references
King Krule, Out getting ribs
Klaus Schulze, The key hole
Laurel Hello, Sweat tears or the sea
Laurel Hello, Masks
The Velvet Underground, Heroin
Translation
Marguerite Capelle
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