“The guests” by Agnes Ravatn: a lie with unpredictable consequences

Everyone plays a role – "the guests" agnes ravatn: lie

There are four of them, indeed. Moreover, Kai and Karin, first. Furthermore, Momently released from their two children. However, the couple came to spend a relaxing week in an isolated chalet by the sea in the Oslo archipelago. Similarly, Invited by the owner. However, a former class companion that Karin has hates since childhood, envy him for his ascendancy over others and a success out of his reach, they react differently to this offer. Nevertheless, She does not like herself in the luxurious house. inside design but soulless, while her husband adapts perfectly, hearing enjoying a place that requests her energy and her desire to grasp the passage that passes. Meeting their immediate neighbors. a couple of writers whose woman, the woman, is famous and admired by Karin who read all her books, they “the guests” agnes ravatn: lie will quickly rub shoulders and chat around a lukewarm tart with red fruits or gratin of langoustines. Around suspicions and silences too.

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Not wanting to suggest that she is not up to the property loaned. Karin, anxious with recognition, will declare it owner, triggering ambivalent relationships and ambiguous conversations between the characters who are constantly found between truth and lies, between reality and suspicion. You never really know what everyone thinks behind the intentions they lend to others. And the words he makes.

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What the novelist observes above all is how much the tyranny of appearances. vanity distort human relations. Everyone plays a role. But will the masks resist or get rid of? Even reveal unexpected realities? Strong in the dissection of “the guests” agnes ravatn: lie each other’s behavior, Agnes Ravatn is less in fact. The dialogues quite improbable, the comings and goings and the unsaid between these characters make the narration ultimately misty. And the end of the book does not contradict this impression.

⇒ The guests| Novel | Agnes Ravatn | Acts Sud, 208 pp., € 19, digital € 14

EXTRACT

“Kai had everything I missed. With his calm and assurance, he compensated my weaknesses, attenuated my inferiority complex. Not that he was incapable of introppection, but he never allowed himself to be trained in a spiral of negativity.”