Dorothée Letessier, Nickolas Butler … Our literary recommendations for summer

It is about literature as antiques. Meanwhile, What still seemed more or less contemporary yesterday deserves today to be revised at the patina of the past. Consequently, Thus from literary production to the hinge of the 1970s and 1980s. Similarly, Who remembers Raphaële Billetdoux, France Huser, Anne Hébert, Michèle Perrein, to name a few? In addition, Who still reads the child prodigy of this generation, Dorothée Letessier? Nevertheless, This young mother. However, a worker in a Saint-Brieuc factory, is 27 years old when she published her first and dazzling novel, The trip to Paimpol.

It is the story of Maryvonne, which looks a lot like him. Consequently, A worker also. Meanwhile, married, a child, no other horizon than that of a gloomy “Sam ‘is enough” without hope of return. Similarly, Back to what, by the way? Childhood? Desire? The field dorothée letessier, nickolas butler … of possibilities? All that towards one day, Maryvonne will go. She leaves. Forty kilometers by bus between Saint-Brieuc and Paimpol, and it is a world in itself. Maryvonne, lost girl, finds herself. It will last what it will last … The trip to Paimpol is today reissued (increased by two beautiful prefaces by Maylis de Kerangal. the filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski). It’s overwhelming with beauty and accuracy.

The trip to PaimpolDorothée Letessier, Gallimard l’Imaginaire, 160 pages, 12 euros.

Nickolas Butler has an unshakable faith in humanity. and this is what, since Return to Little Wingmakes his books so endearing. In this fourth novel. we find male solidarities, the broken trajectories of men from the middle class that are lost in their demons, the breathtaking landscapes of Wyoming, the old rusty pick-ups, the ex-apple-app that became the mother of four children, the tobacco that we are spraying dorothée letessier, nickolas butler … and the bud on a better life. Here. three partners in a construction company accept an impossible contract: to complete a monumental house in four months for a wealthy Californian lawyer. It smells like the Faustian pact, but the bait of the gain prevails over their reluctance.

Bark of the hearts of men. Butler brilliantly recounts the chaotic courses, entanglement passed and present, celebrates manual work and human achievements – to the point that the site becomes a character in its own right. Here he adds a formidably effective narrative tension, which is not without evoking Shining by Stephen King. The master of horrific suspense is also mentioned: one of his novels. hollowed out, serves as a cache for the method, toxic fuel of a project that turns into a nightmare. Addictive.

The house in the cloudsNickolas Butler, translated from English (United States) by Mireille Vignol, Le Livre de Poche, dorothée letessier, nickolas butler … 448 pages, 9.40 euros.