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Beginners , Raymond Carver

First volume of the original versions of the great American novelist: 17 successes.

The news which gives its title to this collection features two couples seated before a bottle of gin. Inquiring about love, his reasons, his inconstancy, they tell stories, their past relationships, their divorces, their expectations, images of other couples who are a possibility of happiness. For all the characters CARVER try to be happy, to believe in something that could be likened to happiness. A cake that heralds the birthday of a child, three days of fishing with friends, a bingo game, a few dance steps outlined in a kitchen after a night without sleep. Moments of happiness, but mostly respites in a life always on the verge of collapse, where violence is ready to burst, where fate, whoever breaks the boys in the car or the one who is immersed in alcohol, transforms the human characters in little dramas of everyday life.
Alcoholism, madness, divorces, accidents, adultery, ... If this is not the most flattering part of the human being as portrayed in these new CARVER incredible power, the fact remains that his characters often try to project themselves to another place they would look to the future in a more happy. In vain.
This first volume of the complete works of American short story is, next to all literary qualities, a history of specific edition. The texts were, when they were first published in 1981, heavily modified by the editor, Gordon Lish. To read the moving letter that the author address (set out in Annex of the collection), it is understood that this was not mere corrections but a reworking, distorting a work that seems so yet capital, even vital, in the eyes of the writer. So here for the first time an edition based on the original manuscript. It would appear that the corrections have focused on Lish cut in the text, reading news, one wonders why this "castration". Nothing is ever too. Each story is a world in itself, a story in which a few lines, the reader is immersed. Through a detail, a phrase, a place, the author manages to create extremely realistic atmosphere where, through cigarette smoke, will play these little tragedies. The style is brilliant, but apparently built extremely simple, fair, and for me who am not generally a fan of short stories, which manages to never let the reader unsatisfied. Carver's talent is how to stand on that narrow line between the drama of the melo-drama, the tragedy of soap. Knowledge of the corners of the soul which enables him to capture his characters in a line, a scene, and remain always on the edge of emotion in restraint.
A first volume, which in my case, is a first step in the work of an author that I will continue to rapidly discover and I recommend you insist.

A big thank you to the Globe Sebastian -player who, by enticing ticket, made up the book on top of my PAL.

Reference:
Raymond Carver, a Complete Works, Beginners , translated from English (United States) by Jacqueline Huet and Jean-Pierre Carasso, Editions de l'Olivier, 2010.

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Gifts

Help! Only two more days! What to do! In addition we work until Friday ... How do you think we can go shopping for Christmas? " No, but I swear! Fortunately, there is the miracle solution: go to a bookstore, a place where anything is possible (and why not on a time noon, there are even bookstores that do lunch ...). Because, well, it's not you it must be said, players and / or writers of blogs to read, a book is still the perfect gift: it is not (always) expensive it can be customized, it's rarely nasty and always very helpful. Yes, but hey, that's not all ... what to give and to whom? And this is once again vowels and consonants are split a little note full of ideas (as we did last year here ). No, no, do not thank us, quite naturally ... (And then we really wanted a small Best of 2010 without really wanting to admit it ...)

- For your dad who made May 68 (or your brother, no generational conflict ...), for your uncle or your cousin union activist: indignation you , Stéphane HESSEL (and plus it costs only 3 €: the gift of choice anti-crisis) or Indignation , the beautiful new novel by Philip Roth.

- For your mom, who did not forget (completely) his speech and his reading of feminist Simone de Beauvoir: Infrared , Nancy Huston, or the path of a free woman and Purge Sofi OKSANEN or unexpected encounter between two fates of women.

- For your aunt, amateur (Amat? Lover? Amateur?) Beautiful things, Shrines ardent Katherine Mosby, a moving story of rebellious wife (again!) And a beautiful writing.

- For your little cousin who loves horses The god of animals , Aryn Kyle. A history of horse and teen clichés like, subtle, touching and realistic. A fantastic first novel away from the world of Black Beauty and other nunucheries equestrian.

- For your brother who only reads novels: any book editions Sonatine (as here) with a preference for novels Ellory (two of them are also now pocket, including our favorite dark Vendetta ) also know that Henning Mankell which you have been told often much good has released a new (and final!) adventure of his detective Kurt Wallander, Man worried (we too are worried about what will happen to him). We did not read it yet, but we advise you eyes closed.

- For your cousin, in love with Japan, The weight of the secrets of SHIMAKAZI. A box (ah, the cabinet, a great friend of Christmas and New Year!), Five short novels, a story of family secrets and fine writing and valuable.

- For Italian girlfriend (or English or American or ... well you understand) your brother who came to spend Christmas in Belgium, Belgian a book of course! And why not a young bird of our country with original The Thirsty Bernard QUIRIGNY.

- To your grandfather, art lover, the beautiful Tell them about battles kings and elephants Mathias ENARD or the adventures of Michelangelo in Constantinople.

...

remains to wish you that your holidays are sweet, light the log and numerous books under the tree!

Merry Christmas.

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# 2 Everything is in the title

indignation you! Stéphane HESSEL

Some pages of contemporary humanism: salutary.

The success of this edition certainly unexpected year-end. At least 200,000 copies already sold and, seeing the little media buzz that starts, this could go higher. And yet here, no pre-pubescent sorcerer, no stranger to end displays or media-cultural figures. Just a reminder, a clear and simple message: you indignant.
Obviously, this cry is not run by anyone. Stéphane Hessel is a prominent figure: strong during the war, a survivor of the camps, one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, former diplomat, a tireless activist, ... A man of 93 years' s address the younger by reminding them first principles from the Resistance who, after the war, were to lead humanity towards better days. Principles and values that are now missing. It gives an overview lucid and clear of the new millennium: the role of the state, ecology, economy, terrorism, wars, ... No need to look far to find reasons to be indignant.
Without falling into moralizing, Stéphane HESSEL reminds us that the world is ours and it is hoped, allow more of our policies and dare to express his indignation. Through Hegel and Sartre, he returns to the big end of the century utopias precedent by turning resolutely towards the future.
Twenty pages of contemporary humanism sobering and, hopefully, will drive more resigned in indignation.

PS
- Small precision literary author is the son of Franz Hessel, a great friend of the writer Pierre-Henri Roché, who made his the Jules Jules and Jim .

- Notice to colleagues as a perfect test to be given to teenagers to read.

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Death of a perfect basketball player

Without a farewell , Harlan Coben

The latest novel by the American star of the detective novel is actually his first. The novel origins, it is preferred the most successful ...

Useless, of course, present Harlan Coben. It is present, sometimes size, the shelves of every bookstore thriller. In recent years, he became the master of the genre, the virtuoso suspense, and especially the king of speed. For COBEN, which should make our Amelie Nothomb green with envy, published a novel a year, without fail, and publishing houses, leaving of course, never spend the golden egg of a hen talented, have emerged from the unpublished (in French) inundating us cobeniens thrillers, sometimes without regard to chronology. No bowl for the French-speaking reader who reads the adventures of the sympathetic Myron Bolitar, former basketball star turned into a sports agent and an investigator with the force of things, in the order in which translations come out and get lost, so, sometimes, in complicated love Myron said. But the author also writes novels "one shot", featuring characters we will never see again ... almost. Because, and all readers will agree, a book to another, the characters are strangely similar. Many doctors and (ex) champions sports charming, funny and having the repartee ; Many women feature a "sublime silhouette" and a "face irresistibly exotic charm" which prevents them from ever having a sacred character and a real intellect. In short, individuals to whom the smile but that usually falls on a terrible tile. As for style, it sometimes lacks a little finesse.
And yet ... ! Yet Harlan Coben has shown us, and several times, his undeniable talent. Some of his books are masterpieces of the genre. COBEN mastered the art of intrigue and suspense like nobody (or almost). His style, though rather flat, however, is dynamic and some of his dialogues especially pleasurable. And if his characters are a bit manufactured, they are so nice that we have enough desire to believe in them to cling to and hope they come out head up trouble where they are filled.
Thus, novels like Do not tell anyone (very well adapted for film by Guillaume Canet), Gone forever or Second Chance have to spend many sleepless nights even the most skeptical (I was part ...). Reading Harlan Coben can become a terrible addiction, more dangerous than the prolixity of the author is publishing novels sometimes well below its capacity.
But back to this last issue. Earlier Without a farewell (translations of the titles are unfortunately the least repetitive: Without a goodbye without a word, no forwarding address ,...) the author warns " OK, if you have not read anything from me, stop right away. Let this book. Take another one. It does not matter. I'll wait. If you're still here, know that I have not read without a farewell for a good twenty years. I did not want to rewrite it. It is a process that I hate. " says it all: this is the first novel by the author still "ingenuous young working in tourism "and since become the star we know. Hence to say that publishers have told their colt: " Harlan gives us anything, it takes " and went COBEN that old manuscript out dated, there is only one step.

Laura, a former supermodel, and David, superstar team of the Celtics, spent their honeymoon in Australia. But David and hand swim .. . does not return. It concludes that death by drowning. When Laura returns to the United States, unable to admit the drama, she investigates the disappearance of her man and resurrects old family secrets.
be found in this "origins of the novel" many features cobenniennes: rich and beautiful characters, a convoluted plot full of twists. Aficionados have fun even recognize some characters that will feature in his later works. Alas, the style here is very poor, the characters really artificial and above height of horeur, the plot is both predictable and implausible. It happened something that had never happened before (and I think I've read all his work): I almost included from the outset.
Harlan Coben is right: if you have never read anything by him, take something else ... For others, my faith, enjoy it (But you try it lends the novel ...).

Thanks anyway to editions Belfond for sending us this novel.

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(Bad) Trip to Yiddish literary thriller

amazing Boys, Michael Chabon

A novel in the universe shifted and slightly foutraque that ends not tired.

A long and difficult day for Grady Tripp, Professor of Letters at an American university. Sentimental point of view, we've seen better: his wife leaves him, his mistress, also married to the president, tells him she is pregnant and the young and beautiful Hannah turns her around more than ever. Professionally, this is not simple: for years he struggled on his latest novel, Boys amazing, a colossal job that he fails to bring an end point and which, by its large size, may well never find the way of bookstores. Furthermore, he was still not shown his work at Teddy Crabtree, his oldest friend and publisher, whose career was flagging. It's also not counting on the presence strangely morbid one of his students, James Leer, an apprentice writer some talent but the Brink existential. Add to that the assassination of the President's dog, stealing a coat that belonged to Marilyn Monroe, a Passover meal that turns into a nightmare family, all under the influence of alcohol, seal, or both!
The novel starts with great breath and vitality, Chabon (which we just talk here ) engaged with communicative joy to play vaudeville and modern literature, focusing on his hero, loser sublime, when he manages to avoid the blows of fate, headed straight to new problems. Writing is Always tense, packed with irony. Dialogues and descriptions sting, entertain and create a world gradually a little crazy. But over the pages, while the characters seem to struggle against a hangover every moment, the pace of the narrative hard cake too, sometimes gets lost in the vicissitudes redundant, accessories and intrigue to lose interest. Although the digressions on writing and film in particular, are pleasant, they fail to keep the reader awake. Too bad, because all this was a good start. At the same time, the concern of the author is ultimately the same as that of his character: find a purpose, advancing the plot. The setting does not save however abyss reader boredom. It is unfortunate, for it was gone ...

A book read by a partnership organized by BOB (thank you once again for their amazing job) and published by Robert Laffont.

PS: This novel was adapted in 2000 into a film by Curtis Hanson. I saw this movie but I have no memory.

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Nathalie Daoust

Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
(Français FOLLOWS)

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Artiste en résidence / Artist in Residence

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon

A dense fleece, offbeat and exotic. Oy!

The discovery of the body of a young drug addict murdered in the hotel he has lived since her divorce plunges Inspector Landsman in a strange state. Is it the fault of the Exchequer found beside his body reminds him that his own father, a great chess player? Or would it simply cooked the day before that prevents to see clearly. No matter because it will quickly forget the case: police Sitka, Alaska tiny area of abandoned for a time the Jewish community, will have to hand over to U.S. police. Sign of the end of the refuge of Jews from the frozen North? Landsman but persists and continues the investigation, against the advice of his new boss is none other than his ex-wife ...

The first surprise of the novel lies in the invention of the Jewish community in Europe Eastern transplanted in Alaska. Self-sufficient microcosm, visible minority alongside the Indians, also parked not far away. The reader is immersed in another culture thanks to all the terms that dot the Yiddish text (with a small lexicon the end). Polar basic startup (murder cop alcohol + depression), the novel surprised then by the geo-political dimension that is needed as the investigation continues. We will not say more in order to spare the suspense.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union Chabon is my first and certainly not the last (I am also immersed in Boys amazing). Lots of humor and irony, style, a singular imagination, a kind of replay: What do you ask for? The fleece side is sometimes shifted a bit like the VARGAS more epic. In short: put on your jacket (and in my opinion, for now, it should not be far off ...), open the freezer door (ambient Alaska warranty) and enjoy!

Thank Françoise who gave me this writer that in mind I wanted to discover a long time.

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Have you Reached your verdict?

Verdict Justin PEACOCK

A novel justice that keeps its promises.

The traditional thrillers often stop where the culprit is arrested. But after coming lawyers and this is a different job starts. Victim or culprit, everyone has the right to be defended, and for defense lawyers, it should play fine.
Joel Deveraux had everything the young lion poised to move up a large box of business lawyers in New York. But a penchant for a bit addictive substance prohibited and death by overdose of one of his colleagues will put an abrupt end to his hopes; forced to resign, he finds himself at the bottom of the ladder of prestige men dress: court-appointed lawyer. Thus it is
led to second Myra, another lawyer for whom this position has meaning and significance in a murder case whose framework the middle of the small drug trafficking of a city left behind. The accused maintains his innocence and his lawyers will work to demonstrate to jurors that he is not guilty as appearances and testimony seem designate. For more than being the defender of truth, the lawyer must first be a champion of persuasion.
A very good suspense in this novel legal (not sure, as stated in the cover, one can speak of "Thriller") whose principal originality to be extremely well constructed in legal terms (U.S.). The author, himself a lawyer, discusses his novel almost as a documentary about the craft and, above all, on moral and ethical situations faced by its peers.
The plot is effective, believable characters and can not catch your breath once the book is closed.
Come on, hop under the tree!

A free circulation in the partnership held by Blog-o-Book (whom we thank, as usual!) And Sonatine .

notices Canel , To Manoa and Pikkendorff .

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Resignation of Director of Libraries Book Marseille

One of the unions (FOR) opposed the new organization, crosswise, he proposed.

http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/soci-t-quartiers/boli-part-pour-ne-pas-plier.html

http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/soci -t-quartiers/organigramme-dessin-sur-un-coin-de-table.html

http://www.enssib.fr/breves/2010/12/01/bmvr-de-marseille-1-2-3-directeurs

http://www.abf.asso.fr/pages/interieur-contenu.php?categorieTOP=2&categorie=22&id_contenu=141

http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/22996-PSG Eboli-captain-demonstration-greve.htm

His predecessor commented

"Two readings to illuminate the case: - the conversation I gave Livres-Hebdo in August 2007 my Departure Branch libraries Marseille
- the book of Michael Sanson and Michel Peraldi "Governing Marseille" , La Découverte, 2006 "

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After the Black Block, a new technical event: the Book Block.
(In a protest against the reform of Italian universities).

http://douglashaddow. tumblr.com/post/2073173137

http://www.hns-info.net/spip.php?article26915
http://www.wuz.it/articolo-libri/5335/libri-protesta-studentesca-book-block.html
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/wumingblog/?p = 1515

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Books of the flat country ... Once # 2

Our country is torn, we have no government since ... er ... can not even count the more months, it is only a question of communal conflict in TV news ... What this does not prevent us to develop, whenever we want, a small nationalist sentiment and defend well from our books for our readers to discover another country or our countrymen not always aware that we, Belgians, we writing, and sometimes very good. A bit of everything, not brol: a melting pot!

- Novels intimate
Who says intimate, "said Corinne Hoex. The novelist talks about herself, her childhood, of his injuries. In My dress is not wrinkled she approached adolescence through the character of a young girl caught between indifferent mother, a father and a manipulative abusive boyfriend. In his latest novel, I kill you Decidedly, the author recalls his mother. Or rather the last moments of her mother's life, how it will follow until his last breath, and above all it will handle the grief of this cold woman, often brittle, sometimes violent, which kept her daughter but was never far away.
Mama Jeanne , the last story of Daniel CHARNEUX, is also a small intimate novel finesse that tells the sad life of a woman of the people at the beginning of the century, always forced to rely on men to become good at quarry and will discuss the difficulty for a woman of her condition, only to get out and reach to become a real mother to children she can not eat. In
Forget Adam Weinberger , ENGEL Vincent tells the concentration camps ... or rather do not tell but speaks of Adam's life before and after Weinberger unrepeatable experience. Then difficult to forget. Intimate
always Those who walk in cities , Jean-François DAUVEN, novel about a handful of individuals lost in a big city, which cities will be, too, the characters. Paris, Rome, London, Brussels ... and, of course, as many cities as stories which eventually respond. If the walk takes us DAUVEN which is sometimes a bit long, description of cities and individuals do not lack charm.

- Some thrillers
is often compared to SIMENON Armel JOB. It is true that his thrillers are like the master of Liege, psychological novels before being thrillers. In The Fake innocence, already, the mood disorder JOB reconstituted after the war in the townships redeemed (part of Belgium near the German border) and made us interested in the strange personality of the narrator, his tyrannical mother and the woman he continues to love it despite the suspicion to have actually killed her husband. In his latest novel, You not judge, where he talks about the disappearance of a baby, the point of view is the judge who conducts the case, who suspects the mother and seeks to know the truth without prejudice trial. Breathless novel that subtly avoids falling into the murky, the flashy or melodramatic.
Another example is Jean-Baptiste Baronian, author of "specialized" in crime fiction and fantasy (it is not for nothing ... Belgian) who has published some forty novels (but also an excellent biography of Baudelaire) whose very Black Matricide in which a district policeman murdered on a bored whim a poor little old.
And since we are a united Belgium, recall that we had already talked here a large Flemish author of detective fiction, namely Pieter Aspe.

- Historical Novels
It is the story of Rabelais that Valerie was interested in his novel THE CHANGY Son of Rabelais. The novelist recounts an episode in the life of the great humanist writer through a hypothetical son adopted. We are at the end of the Renaissance, in full religious war, during which he is not as easy to say what one thinks, even laughter, and where Rabelais begins to worry about the reaction that could cause the release of his latest book, The Third Book .

- Novels anticipation
QUIRIGNY Bernard is a young author to monitor and greet for two obvious reasons: his novel The Thirsty (we talked about here ) is an excellent mix of utopia-cons and humor but also (especially?) he has allowed addicts literary season, which gave him a lot of attention to discover that, no, no Amelie Nothomb writes in Belgium ...
ENGEL Vincent , meanwhile, suggests in My neighbor is someone to be careful to conduct our neighbors. That of Otto, narrator of this story is already scary at first. Then when you realize the Machiavellian plan he has put in place to enforce their radical ideas and obnoxious and to revive a sad past, it was decided to intensify vigilance in relation to our neighborhood. ENGEL nothing in terms of inventing fiction novel but loves his dynamic style and caustic, and then there are memories he's always good to remember ... Read

drache that he or Snow, a packet of hot chips or a good Gauf 'hands, seated before a good pintje ... who knows if you will not have a sacred boentje for one of these authors!

PS
- Books of the flat country ... once # 1 is here.

- Because we are void of challenge, we have not participate in one organized by Reka on Belgian literature . Yet we would have easily won the title "big Belgian" !

- We take this ticket to add a title to the playlist of Leiloona , blessed creative radio bloggers. A Belgian, of course!