2024-06-19 14:37:25
To our imperfect existence
by Véronique Ovaldé
Flammarion, 160 p., 19 €
To our imperfect life appears dedicated to the horrible great thing about life, virtually a – “Ah, our imperfect life! » -, on the verge of chilly self-discipline or fatigue: “Ah, our imperfect world…”
Véronique Ovaldé’s new e-book is a little bit of all this: a nugget, in eight methods, of humor and sweetness, contrasted with the flavors of childhood which tells surprisingly what braveness is required to face life.
Time to win
The creator tells the story of those that, from the shadows they stand, give strategy to those that have concepts, extra lovely or sooner. The unfortunate, the everlasting seconds, the everlasting spectators of their very own world. These of our time of velocity and victory usually are not celebrated however from which you have got made your honey, who carry them for a slice of life within the coronary heart of the journey: “Second-rate characters in different folks’s lives. Additions. Like those that had been killed firstly of the movie or swallowed by the lava move. However they’re the middle of their very own lives. Their our bodies are plumb strains. »
In doing so, right here is the sad Auguste, (known as) Baraka, and the sensible Eva, a struggling single mom, who takes her younger daughter in search. “strategy to your self” – “We’ll settle for, he stated, we all the time handle. It is not completely true, we won’t all the time bear it, however saying these phrases is a good thing about the novel.…In loss or lack, in reliving the ache of childhood previous, women to Our Good Life survive the uncertainty of mom’s love. There’s additionally loads of speak about girls: moms, daughters and grandmothers, colleagues or associates who all current themselves within the eyes of others, out of the blue in opposition, subdued by Ovaldé’s pen.
Youngsters’s recreation
From these wanderings stuffed with the magic of pondering, the creator of the home of the physique of poetry, we will and the sunshine of fantasy. Right here, the cats are known as Jean-Luc and the little women are Bob, the gangsters say they’re from the long run and the dodos which might be within the mud and croaking actually make the souls of the dusty previous males who’ve The mud explodes with a snap… Like a toddler’s play, cover. – cover or fly, these are the characters passing from one story to a different, to carry all of them collectively ultimately, and these underground dialogues assist to construct a fictional story. A lot that we are going to be tempted to assume To our imperfect world, which has simply received the Goncourt quick story prize, as a novel with the perfect chapters put collectively.
With the melancholy that feels like rain, that runs and takes us in the future or one other – “He does not prefer it when it rains. It reminded him of moist wool, orthodontist appointments, college on Thursdays in October (he observed that it rained extra typically on sure days of the week), the odor of chestnuts rotting on the backside of a plastic bag, streams on the bottom within the metro due to umbrellas positioned on the bottom…” -, it is a matter of placing up a great face in opposition to dangerous luck. It is about deciding to be fierce and funky, as life will be – “It is not that difficult to be glad.” »
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