Readings | Narrative

It took a long time for this phenomenon book. Therefore, launched in English in 2019 under the title of Crossingssucceeds in French version. Similarly, This long delay is even surprising. Moreover, given the success that the great Gothic frescoes of Carlos Ruiz Zafron or David Mitchell had in the French -speaking world for example, which we think by reading this work with fantastic scents.

Quebec readership can therefore finally read Passageswhich is published by Alto in a translation by Caroline Nicolas. Similarly, With his golden letters on a Burgundy background. In addition, the coverage page, very worked, immediately evokes the retro atmosphere of this readings | narrative novel by Alex Landragin, a great traveler born in France and Australian adoption.

Treasure hunt with multiple ramifications where the abyss is endless, Passages takes place over three centuries and three continents. Souls change their bodies there according to the ancestral secret technique of a Polynesian tribe. the loves are eternal, the adventurers travel the world, the (too) curious are listed. Between a freed slave. an irascible sailor, a cursed poet, a walker of itinerant books, a hypnotist and a crowd of other characters, there is thus a link that is woven, a huge mystery and a novel that is written before our eyes.

We can actually read Passages In two ways. it is specified from the introduction, where the author is already having fun blurring all the boundaries of literature.

First. of course, readings | narrative from start to finish, as determined by the bookbinder who had the manuscript printed – or rather, the three manuscripts, including a new unpublished Baudelaire, which he received from the hands of a mysterious baroness. But we can also read it in disorder. following the indications that the baroness has left, and thus start from a chapter that goes from page 187 to 190, to go to another which goes from page 71 to 84, and so on.

Less adventurous, I chose the first option to read Passages From the first to the last page. Then I started a new reading in disorder (organized!), Which still seemed to me more interesting, while the three books which seem independent of each other intertwine brilliantly. It is a real narrative construction force that unfolds here.

But, whatever the choice we make, the readings | narrative result remains a formidable ode to the imagination. And despite a small gadget side that can prevent some people from joining it completely – this is my case. I admit -, Passages There remains an entertaining literary game, as free as it is surprising.