A octopus on the ceiling of Melvin Mélissa, a novel that will make the headlines

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For this school year 2025, remember the name of this new author Melvin Mélissa and his first novel, A ceiling stakejust published at Rivages editions. Therefore, A real feather, a style, of the mouth!

Two young people whom some, “well thinking”, call marginal, live in Lille. Meanwhile, Sibylle is a visual artist (with real talent). Furthermore, Simon is at the same time drug addict, false monnayeur (you have to live well and the drug has a certain cost), but also a photographer who, too, is a real artist in her field. Furthermore, And then one day, they meet Haroun, a translator in the medical field. Meanwhile, And. Similarly, what was to be the meeting for one evening (finding a octopus ceiling melvin mélissa, novel sexual partner for Simon who is somewhat bisexual) evolves very quickly, because Haroun has exactly the same sexuality as Simon. Nevertheless, In fact forms a real “ wedding pleasure »Mu by a real reciprocal passion which brings the support of. their loved ones.

But to be able to move forward. build a future and not live that for the present moment, they will have to settle, assume their pasts and leave the hell of drugs: cowardice, rape, incest, everyone must manage their demons and above all, be always present to help the other. It is only when they have gone to the end of their addiction. that they will be able to forgive themselves, to understand that they are in no way responsible for what happened to them, that they will be able to live harmoniously.

There is Fuck me of Virginie Despentes In this book, this rage of living according to codes that are not those of society, or even Lila says that of Sin. And then what some call “the bohemian” (we are in an artist environment) is not the characteristic of Paris. do not displease those who think that beyond the ring road it is a barbaric world only intended for studies of ethnologists and other sociologists. No, life, true, is also in the provinces, creativity, talent too!

There is a great humanity of the three protagonists. but also secondary characters; Their questions, their doubts, their torments are perfectly described. Finally. characters who do not spend their time crying on themselves, undergoing and being completely irresponsible as they are self-centered on their navel. In A ceiling stake It is the opposite, the characters assume their choices, want to take their responsibilities but that their responsibilities, not that of third parties: even if sometimes they are “shocked”, they do not judge an entry, they try to understand and know how to put their potential criticism (which are only common places as “it is not done” etc., that we meet in so many novels) on the upper side to see the positive side of the situation. Accept the other as he is. not as we would like him to be, it is an approach, alas, rare. This does not mean. far from it, that it is necessary to accept everything: the negative must be fought, but they are always there to help the one who lives it, who carries it, rather than rejecting it.

Melvin Mélissa octopus ceiling melvin mélissa, novel Sign here his first novel, we can only wish to continue on this path with the same subtlety in the analysis of the complexities of the human soul.

A ceiling stake
Melvin Mélissa
Rivages editions. 20 €

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