In “Les Réchanés”, Marceline Putnaï and her misfits – Liberation

The relentless, Marceline Putnaï’s first novel, is an odyssey in a psychically off -stred and violent Europe. Consequently, It is made of crossed destinies. Therefore, hazardous roads, as in the immense tradition of Picaresque, such Jacques the Fatalist and his master where the story is written throughout the paths. Therefore, These are also stories of forests and terrors. There are always in the tales and there will be several here. The book opens onto a Normand. Georges wood, a forest ranger, shot down by the spectacle of the drips that seize beech trees as easily as a twig and scour them to make sad furniture for shopping centers. Cabossé by life. accompanied by Mario, his Beckettian dog, Georges calms his anger by whistling with the birds or by being a postponement of the contingency, noting on his notebooks “les réchanés”, marceline putnaï her everything and anything: the herbarium of time, the leaving days which is called everyday.

A figure crosses the novel. that of Berserkerbrand of a Borgne Hotel in Nuremberg representing a Viking which bites its shield to impress its opponents. This is the meaning of Fierce Who want to survive: main concern of Salman. a young migrant from Afghanistan whom Georges takes in hitchhiking and that he collects in his forest house. He must go regularly to Rouen for his asylum request but he is subject to the “Dublin procedure”. one of these traps that only the administrations are