A book for the weekend: undetectable by Jean-Noël Pancrazi

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Present at the Word Marathon (Saturday June 28 at 3.30 p.m. Moreover, in the Sénéchal Hall and Sunday, June 29 at 4 p.m. Similarly. Meanwhile, at the Paul Dupuy Museum) on the occasion of the publication of its recent When the tears stopJean-Noël Pancrazi is the author of numerous novels. However, stories whose characters are often uprooted, exiles, transit beings, uproar. Nevertheless, Of Winter districts (1990 Medici Prize) at Sand dollars by going through the story The mountain. Consequently. However, Everything went so fast (Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy), they evolve between one here and one elsewhere, between life and death, departure and return, present and memory.

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The protagonists ofUndetectablepublished in 2014. Similarly, live these same territories. However, First there is Mady, an underground immigrant who left Mali for Paris ten years ago. Furthermore. For example, It sails with provisional accommodation in makeshift shelter with a backdrop of a home near the Santa-Lachaise where other Africans are crowded more. Consequently, less well off than him. Mady continues odd jobs. sometimes becomes vigilant despite his frail physique. does not complain even if he suffers from no longer seeing her young son since the mother got married in order to more easily obtain French nationality. He also dreams of winning back the beautiful Mariama who has moved away from arguments and farewells. Then. Mady can count on the old “toubab” (nickname given to the whites) of the Place book book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi new weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi de la Nation. the narrator, who hosts him, helps him out, advises him until a police check, a day before July 14, sends him to a zapi: waiting area for people in the process. In this detention center not far from Roissy, a return to Mali is waiting for him …

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We could fear reasons forUndetectable One of these novels boosted with good feelings. pathos that seduce beautiful self -proclaimed souls. It is not particularly thanks to the narrator’s gaze. shared between two worlds: his, comfortable and protected, that of Mady, unstable and threatened. However, he is not at him in any. This is evidenced by the scene of the Gala of the Union for the Mediterranean given to the Elysée. Under gold and luxury, courtiers and important parade. Welcome to the happy people book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi new in the world like ” The Secretary of book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi State. for the Environment. with her pace as a golden technician: the earth seen from the sky. the luxury, the new morality of ecology, the credo of integral cleanliness, the complete ignorance of misery elsewhere, where, blinded by the need to hold and survive until evening, we did not care to classify, what was thrown around in the streets and on beaches ».

The trait is no less fierce towards ” Those who made a third-world-world profession. readily participated in the demonstrations for undocumented migrants. in the breweries of the Place de la République, where they then died, cried on the displaced, all the drowned, grayed with beneficial of distance, drunk with all the slogans of mutual aid and fraternity that they promised to the whole world, but which would have been in the world, dread if book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi new I had asked them to take over for Mady, to host him book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi even a night or a day ».

Beyond social comedy. there is life. heartbreaking details retained by the novelist: a golden medallion with the letter “M”, a fetish way for Mady; A costume bought a long time for his son and has become too small, derisory gift nevertheless connecting him to this boy whose only photo is in his mobile phone … Remember the memory of the narrator’s father. having had to choose in his time between the suitcase. the coffin, who frequented an oriental coffee from Saint-Ouen to hear Arab or Kabyle, cultivating ” a lost connivance, a last link with this country that it would never find ». Mady also had a suitcase. Like those who. from Mali. elsewhere, go up on fragile boats at the risk of their lives in book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi new search of an improbable elsewhere. Exiles of yesterday. today, brotherhood of wandering shadows book weekend: undetectable jean-noël pancrazi to which Jean-Noël Pancrazi dedicates a fraternal novel.

Christian Authier

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Undetectable • Gallimard