2024-01-13 09:01:46
– Lovey, Mathieu, Gattegno: the books of the week
A novel, a comic strip, an investigation, the book news of the week, it’s here!
Published today at 10:01 a.m. Catherine Lovey’s white writing
Roman Who hasn’t already had this curiosity: knowing who this neighbor is that we sometimes meet in the hallway of their building? In “The Story of the Man Who Didn’t Want to Die”, the narrator gradually gets to know her neighbor, Sandor, a Hungarian exile whom his wife has just left, who travels a lot and has little other contact than ‘a beloved aunt. She approaches him to the point of sharing his daily life and accompanying him in his end-of-life journey, because “the man who…” is suffering from cancer. A story of everyday life, of the emotions and misunderstandings that arise between two people in a relationship, which unfolds slowly in this neighborhood intimacy, made up of questions, empathy, modesty and annoyance during a pandemic (story written during the Covid crisis?). An almost banal story that is easy to identify with, written in white, almost flat writing by Catherine Lovey, an author who has already published four novels with Éditions Zoé.
“History of the man who did not want to die”, Catherine Lovey, Ed. Zoe, 172p.
Three other French-speaking novels that we likedMarc-Antoine Mathieu asks himself questions
ED. DELCOURT
BD Something happened. A major disaster. Everything that meets the definition of living has disappeared from the Earth. The organic world is nothing more than dust. In this chaos, however, one presence: that of an artificial intelligence, named Adam. Part of a capsule wandering through infinity, this guardian of all the data generated by the late humanity watches while waiting for life to be reborn one day, by exchanging different words with another program-entity… Two years following the obscure “Deep Me”, Marc-Antoine Mathieu concludes his diptych with the confusing “Deep It”, to be released on January 17. A specialist in unclassifiable albums, he explores in black and white and shades of gray very (too) high-level questions regarding existence, death and an improbable rebirth. A book with hermetic notions and an immaculate cover that makes you dizzy. Failing to seduce…
“Deep It”, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Ed. Delcourt, 112 p.
But who shot Markovic?
Investigation Fifty-six years following his assassination, Stevan Markovic is still moving. We have long lost hope of knowing who put a bullet in the head of the Yugoslav gambler, a disgraced friend of Alain Delon, found cold in the gutter on September 22, 1968. But like the martyr of Vologne , the resulting “affair” became a national passion. Except that Markovic’s death almost turned the destiny of France upside down: it is the strength of Hervé Gattegno’s book that it seeks less to resolve the assassination of the playboy than to show how a few men of the State and judicial apparatus used this murder to put a noose around the neck of Georges Pompidou. The favorite to succeed De Gaulle (not entirely clear in the matter) had to carry out his own investigation to understand who had an interest in fueling the rumor which dishonored his wife. We follow this bad soap opera which has become a state thriller with amazement, regretting that Alain Delon, who knows the key, did not wish to speak out.
“A corpse on the road to the Élysée”, Hervé Gattegno, Flammarion, 352 p.
“The vagabonds”, blood for blood
Polar Embark on a bloody road trip through the American southwest following “Vagabonds,” the new novel by Hammett Prize-winning crime author Richard Lange. These wanderers are almost immortal creatures of the night, vampires who feed on the blood of the marginalized people of American society. But Richard Lange makes them antiheroes, forgotten by America.
From seedy motels to shady bars, two brothers, Jesse and his simple-minded younger brother Edgar, follow the path while avoiding being too noticed. Until they meet a young woman who reminds Jesse of a lost love and the kidnapping of a child, an eternal source of life. They will then cross paths with the Demons, a gang of vampire bikers who want revenge for the death of some of them. During this trip, the two brothers will travel part of the way with a man who wants to avenge the death of his son, killed by vagabonds. For a final confrontation, between surin blows and resurrections. Before a finale in Las Vegas which will surprise the reader.
“The Vagabonds”, Richard Lange, Ed. Shores, 336 p.
Other new releases of the weekThe sales charts of the week (in Payot bookstores)
“A winter to resist you”, Volume 2, Morgane Moncomble, Hugo Roman.
“The happy life”, David Foenkinos, Gallimard.
“The return of Lagaffe”, Delaf, Dupuis. Lire ici our article on the subject.
«Le mage du Kremlin», Giuliano Da Empoli, Folio Poche. Lire ici our article on the subject.
“The white iris”, “Asterix”, Volume 40, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, Ed. Albert René. Lire ici our article on the subject.
“Watch over her”, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, The Iconoclast, Prix Goncourt. Lire ici our article on the subject.
“The braid”, Laeticia Colombani, LGF Le Livre de Poche.
“The summer before”, Lisa Gardner, Albin Michel.
“The Cat and the 40 Candles”, Geluck, Casterman. Lire ici our article on the subject.
“Ends of reign”, Chapatte, Les Arènes. Lire ici our article on the subject.
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