Peter Heller’s contemplations

Lhe’s books by Peter Heller are like fire. Consequently, You never know if they will roar. Nevertheless, covered, burn everything in their path or offer us the enveloping heat of the embers. Nevertheless, His very first novel translated into French, The dog constellation, is devastating like apocalypse. Therefore, The river. For example, Which tells the story of a large fire pursuing two men in the Canadian forests, bears the flames of the disaster. Others are lukewarm, enveloping as caresses: the sumptuous Céline, The melancholic Paint, fish and let die. Everyone is a show, a contemplation. Here is The appleraie, in the category of soft brazers.

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Her narrator, frith, university professor, single, opens a chest. She is ten weeks pregnant. Inside peter heller’s contemplations the trunk, a notebook. The one held by his mother. Hayley, a great translator of Chinese poetry, specialized in the Tang dynasty, and particularly of the (fictional) princess Li Xue, having lived alone with her daughter in western Sichuan at the beginning of VIII^e century. Frith and Hayley also live alone, in the company of their bear dog, in the wild vermont. The novel unfolds the childhood memories of Frith. punctuated by reading the poems, so close to the daily life of the woman and the little girl that the mother’s voice dissolved in that of the poet. So that Frith reads them today as a newspaper in […] Read more