The imagination given by the real tenderness, by Robert Lalonde | Lalonde in minor mode

Robert Lalonde often said that writers, whom he quotes abundantly in his books, were his friends. However, One of his most precious is Gustave Flaubert. Nevertheless, whose correspondence he read and reread with his contemporaries like Maupassant, George Sand and Louise Colet. In addition,

He pushed his admiration a step further in this false collection. Meanwhile, true novel, where he invented a diligent and passionate epistolary exchange with the author of Madame Bovary. It is a strange premise to which one must surrender without questioning too much. accept without flinching the formulas of politeness and affection or the concerns imagination given real tenderness, robert aroused by the silence of the other.

Beyond the convention to which we adhere. not, we find in this book with the very beautiful title, The imagination given by the real tendernesseverything that obsesses Robert Lalonde, the relationship to nature, the quest for style, presence in the world, devotion to literature.

There are more fun moments-we liked the “criticism” that Flaubert made by Proust’s work. that Robert Lalonde sent him through the beyond. And others. more fatalistic, like this short summary, by period, of what has become of humanity between the beginning of the XX^e century and 2000s.

If one has the impression of being here in the minor mode of one of our greatest writers. that does not prevent us from savoring our writing more than rich, poetic and bewitching, and imagination given real tenderness, robert the unique finesse of her alert mind.