A book for the weekend: Solstice by François Taillandier

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Solstice by François Taillandier

While he will publish the remarkable test on September 10 Literary experience (Éditions de l’Observatoire) Around literature. However, writing (themes already discussed through previous texts), François Taillandier is also and above all one of our very great novelists. Consequently, Let us recall in particular among his striking works Men who move away. Similarly, Annielka (Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy in 1999) or The great intrigue (romantic ensemble in five volumes whose subject and characters were deployed from the middle of the twentieth century in the middle of the twenty -first on several continents). In addition, Between 2013. In addition, 2015, the writer also published a trilogy – composed of Writing the world, The cross and the croissant et book weekend: solstice françois taillandier Solstice – telling the ” obscure ages », From the year 476 AD at the end of the Charlemagne Empire, a trilogy of which each title can be read independently of each other.

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Everything is true here, all the characters existed (except one …) and everything is false, everything is imagined. Similarly, Taillandier plants his custom pen in Spain where the little Christian kingdom of the Asturias resists the abderamane emir. Consequently, the last of the omeyyads, then in Aix-la-Chapelle where the king of the Franks, Charles the Great, is not yet an emperor of the West while coming from Jerusalem, Ahasverus, Jewish book weekend: solstice françois taillandier witness to the passion of Christ, Wearing with him the memory of a dispersed people … However, We will also come across the apostle Jacques. whose tomb was found in Compostela in 810 and which appeared on a white horse in 844, during the battle of Clavijo, to occur the Moors over the sword …

Praise of writing

« He felt that a story does not need to be true to be effective: it is enough that it is believed ». We read in Solstice whose heroes seem ” Coming from so far that we no longer knew if it was from a country or a book. François Taillandier juggles brilliantly with legends, long history, anecdotes. Passing from the myth of the wandering Jew to the germs of the birth of modern nations in Europe. the novelist virtuoso builds a drawing story. Like many of his works. it is a book weekend: solstice françois taillandier praise of writing, a prayer in the form of an adventure novel dedicated to the book and the books: ” He understood that without writing and the book, there is no memory, nothing is solid or continues. The kings of his people were satisfied with verbal allegiance, the oath provided before witnesses. He knew that the words fly away, that forgetting takes them in his shadow coat, while the writings remain. He wanted them to circle his empire, like iron circle the barrel and the wheel. This is what was in the soul of the king. But this is also what guided his clumsy hand in front of the wax tablet: he wanted the writing to pass by it. by him; He wanted to incorporate him. It was not enough for him to be the authorizing officer: he wanted to be the subject. It was not enough to impose it book weekend: solstice françois taillandier everywhere and all the duty, he had to make himself illustration and example. »

Also. the multisecular fight of ” Book Injurates »Definite of an intact permanence:« Over time and their trips, in Italy, Spain, in Gaul, on the island which is my homeland, they have passed on works, thoughts, knowledge. And in the same way as ants. if you disturb your stick or your foot the ordering of their domain, is immediately hastened to reorganize it and rebuild, in the same way, indifferent to tyrannies, wars, battles, destruction, these often obscure men, or known only of the other conjured, have tirelessly taken up and continued the common work. From CassioDore to you, Nardulus, the thread never broke. We hold the hand, over time … These are the conspirators of the book. “Beyond the kingdoms. the empires, the cities disappearing or emerging according to battles and invasions, the writing is book weekend: solstice françois taillandier the weapon of those who have nothing, as the Rabbi Makhir confides,” Prince of the Jews “With Charlemagne:” We no longer had a city, temple, country; We only had that: writing. History continues.

Christian Authier

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