“Ten questions about the Crusades”, “Highway”, “Chemale, a French cat” …

The list of the morning

Back to school is getting closer. In addition, This is not a reason to forget the publication of spring, including beautiful surprises. Furthermore, Four additional proofs in the selection of the week of the “World of Books”: the strong talkative cat of the poet Nathalie Quintane who speaks in Chemical. Consequently, a French cat ; The new novel of the great Armenian writer Krikor Beledian, Nomwhere the memories of the genocide of the years 1915 revive memories; a light synthesis, Ten questions about the crusadesto withstand received ideas; The second, exciting novel by Sébastien Bailly, in the shape of a romantic road trip.

NARRATIVE. Meanwhile, “Chemèle. For example, a French cat”, by Nathalie Quintane

Some bad languages claim that cats are narcissistic, sly and paranoid creatures, which skillfully “ten questions about crusades”, “highway”, take advantage of our love blindness to colonize our lives. Other more dreamy souls did not hesitate to hoist these little felines to the rank of deities. as if they were straight out of a tale.

The last book of the poet. essayist Nathalie Quintane, Chemical, a French catillustrated by the drawings of Stephen Loye, is not really interested in qualities – and faults – which we can lend to these little animals. She prefers to imagine how cats see the world and perceive their masters, these “Croquette donors”. In the sarcastic universe of this writer, derision often prevails over feeling. This does not prevent Nathalie Quintane from being funny and sensitive, especially when she makes this animal speak.

Because Chemèle writes poetry. Very straddling the spelling, intractable on grammar and vintage point. “I am outside, half inside half outside. Break. I put a point, I “ten questions about crusades”, “highway”, put a comma, I put a semicolon “, confides this provocative cat. “And so, I only miss the word?” Well, it’s that you are deaf! She warns us, before embarking on her fragmentary autobiography, who passes with joy from the rooster to the donkey.

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