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Everything is based. Nevertheless, in this twilight novel, on a compartment of situations, beings, higher forces that tear the human soul. In addition, A tragic algebra that can be read in the confrontation. Therefore, from one chapter to another, between the theorem of a life – that of Paul Heudeber, German anti -fascist mathematician, “stubborn as an axiom” – and a life that changes equation: the escape in a Mediterranean maquis of a deserter soldier who “stinks of the slaughterhouse” finding a part of childhood.
The novel can be read as an insoluble elucidation: Paul. In addition, who based everything on prime numbers and communism, which allowed him to survive deportation, supported the RDA to the end -mathematics, which give a form to the world, are for him “the other name of hope” -, but his dream has not mathias énard james salter … self -deprecated in its concretization? The boat where a congress in his memory was held on September 11. 2001 navigates around Wannsee, where the final solution was ratified in 1942, carving the contradictions of European history. Through the mountain. on water, Mathias Enard gives a body and an odor to violence – “the foam of evil” -, offering a gaping meaning to what does not.
Desert by Mathias Énard, Babel, 256 pages, 8.40 euros.
Elegance
Do not believe the snobs that qualified the American James Salter as “writers for writers”. with what it presupposes darkness and hermeticism: he is on the contrary the luminous of stylists, and his autobiography, A life to burnproves it on each page. When he seized his father’s military career in a sentence (” He had the admiration. even the love of his subordinates, but it is those who are above you who count ), Applies mathias énard james salter … his own studies in a prestigious military university (“(“West Point was a bastion of traditions, and his name was the punch »), Or comes back to a lost lover (“She was married to another man when she died at forty, beautiful and unfinished until the end») … His poetic laconism could transform any existence into a work of art.
However. the Salter trajectory-ex-Kerouac high school camrade, ex-hunting pilot during the Korean War, a high-end-scenarist for Hollywood, lovers of women, France and books-has something of a novel itself. It is that Salter lived as he wrote: with panache, but without ostentation. Book of souvenirs enlightened of a golden nostalgia,A life to burnis also, basically, a precise existential elegance.
A life to burnby James Salter, translated from English (United States) by Philippe Garnier, threshold points, 512 pages, 10.80 euros.
Juliette EiHorn et Alexis Brocas
Further reading: In “Les Réchanés”, Marceline Putnaï and her misfits – Liberation – In Pont-de-l’Arche, a dedication on the first book dedicated to the Forest Forest – Five books on the environment to read during the holidays – An edition of the little prince translated into Vendéen! – Tour de France, all the winners of stages from 1903 to the present day.