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Easter Parade - Richard Yates


"Easter Parade" is a novel published in the USA in 1976 and translated into French this year.
Its author, Richard Yates, is particularly known for his first novel "Revolutionary Road" ("The picture window" in French), whose film adaptation ("Revolutionary Road") was made by Sam Mendes in 2008.

1930. Parents of divorcing Grimes sisters and two little girls, Sarah (9 years) and Emily (4 years) go to live with their mother, Pookie, in Tenafly, while their father continues to work in New York as a trainer Copy the Sun.
Trimbalées the 4 corners of the USA at the whim of an unstable mother and dreamy, they eventually settled in New York, where Sarah falls in love with the neighbors son, Tony Wilson, she eventually married.
Emily gets on her a scholarship to study English literature at Barnard. While the elder
confined to its role as a mother, the youngest takes the tangent. Free electron from one man and one job to another, it is no longer happy so far ...

" Neither Grimes sisters would be happy in life, and looking back, it appears that the trouble began with the divorce of their parents. "

The least we can say is that the author announces the tone of the story from the first line.
" Easter Parade "evokes the destinies of two sisters who are total opposites. While the one chose to live in the countryside, surrounded by her children and an alcoholic husband to light touch, the other accumulates meetings and ephemeral jobs without really asking questions.
Emily has always been jealous his elder because of his special relationship with their father as with the who became his brother, looks both fun and hard on her sister which she criticized the lack of culture.
Beyond the intellectual gap that separates the two sisters are not really bound by emotional ties. Emily makes sure to stay away from her sister as her mother, two women brought on alcohol does not consider it worthwhile. Also
simply does manifest itself in cases of extreme emergency, when one or the other needs his help more by filial duty and for conscience than actual concern.

" - What you think? Emily Howard asked when he had read the letter.

- What do you want me to think? It's a playful little letter, nothing more.

- Precisely, Howard, she is too playful.
Apart from his reference to his hair grow back, you'd think the housewife the happiest and most satisfied with the world.

- Maybe this is how she likes to imagine.

- Hum, but the fact is that I know what it is, and she knows I know what it is.

- Well well, "said Howard, rising from his chair to take a few steps forward into the room. What do you expect of her? You want it to open your heart's every five minutes? It tell you how many times he has beaten this month? And when it does, you say you do "not want her beating down your life." You're a funny girl, Emily. "p.204

Around them gravitate to men who are hardly better off. Cowards, violent, alcoholic, they seem to have missed their life, feel sorry for their plight and attack their companions often failing to point their own mistakes.

Difficult to attach myself to these characters as their behavior was pushing me to keep me at bay, just like Emily passed by indifference vis-à-vis her family.
As in "Revolutionary Road" (note, not having read the novel I'm basing that on the film), Richard Yates portrait of individuals who aspire to an ideal they will never reach. Whether it's Emily who revels in its unconventionality and gratifies desire for independence or Sarah who unlike her sister bends to social conventions and attempts to preserve his family life at all costs, the The author seems to want to demonstrate through its antithetical characters that in one case as in the other, happiness is not necessarily to go.
But unlike "Revolutionary Road", I found this story a bit too "soft knee". The characters rubbed shoulders here passively allow themselves caught up in their disillusionment, does not show little willingness to get out, hence the drift to finally sink in alcohol.
Never pour into the sordid, the author adopts a tone of bitter irony and often verging leaving ultimately a bitter taste in the mouth. Even if I do not regret reading this, I would advise to avoid it when a decline in morale as the landscape of the post-war America and the characters who inhabit it proved lackluster.

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Your death do us part - Antoine Lencou


"Your death do us part" is a novella published in 2009 and signed by French writer Antoine Lencou.
Roin Venkoo is a man ill at ease and in his time. Married to Olcéana Xinava, a fashion fantasy and egocentric, he leads a life without pleasure in this world partitioned where the men served by machines and androids are homebound, working from home and communicating primarily through communication networks. Religions have disappeared under the weight of the promise of eternal life and since the Women's Forum Family disapproves of pregnancy, the birth rate is dropping.
Alienated by the corporation governed by a permanent virtuality, Roin decides to file a petition with the Department of suicides.
But his desire to end his life faces an unsympathetic administration which does not give him an appointment in 6 months.

" You can not imagine the amount of waivers necessary for obtaining a driver's suicide, support for euthanasia and the replacement of your vacancy. Besides registration services deaths are completely overloaded with the new law on the classification and valuation of souls saved holographic medium. "p.9

Gold Roin can not wait anymore and decided to jump from the top a building.
When he awoke, he realized that he survived and he is about to be sentenced for having overstepped the law. The judge overturned the application of suicide for a period of 107 years and requires it to integrate the administration.

" He had forgotten that particular society, its society could not tolerate a death that was not his life teachings. She had therefore risen, and his questions were open in his lifetime to fears about his life after death. Who was he now? How? Under what conditions? Every cell of her flesh, every pore of his skin, every thought of his conscience all posed the same question: Am I still myself? No one - least of all him - could not tell. He suffered martyrdom. "p.37

Roin chooses to be assigned to the Administration of the Dead. Although deaths still occur, souls are stored on magnetic media and can be replanted in a body if necessary. The mission Roine is to identify duplicates and delete them.
But after a few days the young man finds a flaw in the system ...

" He definitely does not understand his company, his aspirations and intentions . Without doubt, these recordings were originally his own future. Technology and medicine of his day had turned into a weapon against death, and most of his countrymen, if not all, saw them progress ultimate, final. But at what price? That of their degradation. "p.57

Divided into 25 short chapters," Your death do us part "takes us from the first lines in a universe of futuristic, sleek and sanitized, in which technologies govern the relationship between human beings.
Driven by an exaggerated individualism, men live in apartments in autarky but minimalist modular to wish that contain everything necessary for a life of public assistance. Who would not want to be massaged by a cushion that holds out his arms or be offered any refreshments for his coffee table?
Clearly more human than other people of his kind, Roin is misunderstood, and a sensitive soul who thought that idleness is not enough. Unlike others, he likes to go to work and take the air to admire the outside world.
Yet since his salon Roin will rely on a table and a cushion spy hacker investigate and prove the fallibility of the system in place, a system that has made death its goodwill.

" The future belongs to those who know how to anticipate. " p.19

Although in my reading, I felt like a taste already read / seen (I thinking particularly of the works of Orwell and Wells, all bathed in a Kafkaesque absurdity all), I found the plot coherent and the characters very well brushed and most importantly, I enjoyed seeing the excesses of our society (overcrowding, pollution, maximum profitability, mechanization services, the virtual invasion ,...) submitted to the imagination pen and sharp and often funny Antoine Lencou!

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Your death we belong

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The Forsaken - Michael Hirsch


Released August 19, "The Forsaken" is the second novel, after "omicron", of Michael Hirsch.
Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1954. Jean Giono preparing to succeed at the Academy Goncourt Colette, Simone de Beauvoir is poised to win the prestigious award of the same name and during that time, Gerard Cohen, courier Gallimard, must go like every week the doctor Destouches alias Louis Ferdinand Celine to give him a few wrinkles.
But instead of taking the road to Meudon, Gerard loitering and lost in a world where reality merge, memories and dreams ...

" As its name suggests, the environment is at the center. It does not touch the edges, carefully avoids any contact with the periphery. Centrifugal force is his only anxiety.
When scattered, only to better fill the available land. Episodically, he gathered together in a geographical point that, just for a moment, becomes the epicenter of the microcosm. "p.16

" The Forsaken "or the story of a day behind the scenes of the publishing community.
An environment that Gerard, the narrator, knows well since he grew up there and there working with the support of his father. The young man runs through an identity crisis due to its reluctance to enter into the mold as the question of his Jewish origins, origins that it can hardly appropriated in this opulent France after the war where we must view all black and white.

" Where did you wonder constantly comment on my character? Problem is the glass half empty. Everything is a matter of perspective. If my mother was Jewish I could be the worst miscreants without provided any ambiguity.
Consequently, I'd still too much for those who are not at all and enough for those who are completely done.
I spent the first part of my life to apologize of some and the second to justify myself to others. "p.51

Gerard talks about the events that deeply influenced his youth, memories mainly related to the exodus during which he started in danger several times, and often find resonance in its current concerns .
He also mentioned his meeting with the writer Celine, the "theorist of hate" who reminds him of his discomfort vis-à-vis its origins and exerts a strange sensation formed by a mixture of fascination and disgust.

" is a man defeated in the sense that men spend half their lives to build and disassemble everything else. The type is the image of his chicken coop. This is an abandoned project, or rather a building struck by lightning. His graying hair is pulled back.
mark parallel furrows his brow. He wears a succession of duds as stacked layers of an onion, knitted sweater, cardigan jacket and finally a shepherd sheepskin. "p.150

Both say right now, I really fell in love with this novel! I liked enter in the skin of this character stuck between two labels, share the anger and doubts of the man who struggles to give a direction to his own existence.
I discovered a neat, enriched with words that you feel carefully chosen (if not weighed) and details that far from burdening the narrative contribute to account for an often admired the outside but decidedly lackluster if one believes the author.

" The rivalry is a game that inspire us all cheers up. It is a war of positions that we play in a perimeter restricted field of operation extending into two districts at the most.
Each places his pawns, intrigue, rival advertising and puffery. Giono's friend with the heart of the machine medals, Gallimard's future now seems assured for years to come. Is that we need these rewards chocolate, these congratulations absurd. The world works like this, ludicrous that our world is thought Universal and obsesses us for years now. Sad consolation. "p.114

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tagged by Clara and Mango, I had to rummage in my distant memories to answer questions.


1) When you were little (e), that you answer the question "And you, what do you do when you grow up (e)?"

If I remember correctly, the first job which I thought was hostess Air ... To think that the idea of speaking several languages while traveling and gorging myself with sandwiches at half frozen I liked.
It seems that I changed my mind when my parents told me that I would not see much of the country, my language practice would be limited to "tea, thee, tea, coffee, Coffea, coffee" and my job is primarily to crunching arm during the first 5 minutes of flight.
I know I had a brief phase where I wanted to be a singer (Frank Sinatra impersonator, more precisely, yes laugh ...). I trained diligently elsewhere on my channel karaoke. Hmm ... after brief
that I dreamed of being a writer and somehow, I always kept my child's soul ...

2) What were your bd's and favorite cartoon?

I think I have read all the Tintin, the (Small) Spirou and Bob and Bobette. After I went to Agatha Christie to overdose (which is why I am unable to read at the moment).
As for cartoons, there were "Denver the Last Dinosaur" ("it's my friend and more, Denver the last dinosaur, comes from a world vuuuuuuu never again!"), The Snorky, Mimi Cracra The Knights Zodiac, Goldorak (Daktarus ah!) and of course I still know Boumbo the generic heart ...

3) What were your favorite games?

I played mostly at Monopoly (I could not help but cheat when I played only with my brother, he never understood why I always wanted to do absolutely the bank ...). In
good girl I was, I also had a "Shopping Follies" and "Shaping the mode that far from creating a vocation in me has given way to" draw is won, " a kind of Pictionary (which has also failed to initiate any talent ...).
I played a lot with the "Mysteries of Peking" (Asian variant "Clue") and "Stratego" (where I also cheated by changing my flag room while it was not ...) and I loved too "Atmosfear"!

4) What was your best birthday and why?

That of my 25 years! A cozy little surprise party between funny people and two tons of food prepared by my mummy:)

5) What would you absolutely wanted to do that you have not already done?

The list is long ... Traveling! It's been so long since I have not taken off the feet of my house that I am not difficult in terms of the destination (any monetary proposal is of course welcome). As long as the journey is not done by boat. Even a luxury cruise on a big yacht where no one feels (supposedly) not seasick, thank you but no thank you. In contrast, for the world tour in Orient Express, I'm all ears! Eating in a restaurant
star just to say that "their reputation is really overrated," bungee jumping (but I feel that I lack courage / suicidal thoughts at the crucial moment), have very long hair (there's always a moment when the scissors me itch), swim with dolphins (yes you can chuckle, but does that right now, I'd like), buy an old shack (at the seaside if possible) and completely patch up myself (good for mezzanine library, I probably should seek help ...). Finally
to achieve all this, I need to win the Euromillions!
Obviously, there is also a dream which I have already mentioned in question 1 ...

6) What was your first favorite sport? Ben

thin ... I think although it was the football ... My brother played in a club and I remember a memorable post-game awards ceremony. I was the only girl and I tackles a lot ... (always returns to this side cheat ^ ^).
Even today, I would play well in the ba-ball in a park. By cons, no way for me to watch football on TV, any sport for that matter. It bores me terribly (though I think the prize goes to cycling or even Formula 1). Anyway I'm not on TV so the problem is solved ...

7) What was your first music idol?

I think it was first Chantal Goya can be of Edith Piaf, then there was Whitney Houston. The first CD I received was the Hit Box 90 (I always).
Damn, I was only 8 years old at the time we listened to it.

8) What is the greatest gift of Christmas (or equivalent) you received?

No memories more memorable than others, but I know I've been spoiled many times. But I remember the worst gifts received for Christmas. A tangerine offered by a nurse during a hospital stay during the holidays, she eagerly tangerine to retire hands 2min later when she remembered that I could not eat anything ...
Arghhhh ...

I dedicate this tag to Reka (because she likes it ^ ^), Choco (ditto ^ ^), George (ditto ^ ^) restling (even if it meets the next year ^ ^) and all those who want or I have not appointed because they have already answered;)