Turmoil is still felt throughout the worldIt was necessary to network all the skillsThe greatest collectors of the world comeIt doesn't matter if they lose most of the timeThe first based at Montdidier in the sum is already operationalSince midSeptember the stock markets mark way2 higher than the expectations of the marketIt is rightly that they are worried aboutAlan Mulally is not familiar the automobileFirm offers are expected Monday November 9And a! La rentrée littéraire is barely initiated that first prize - that of FNAC - is already awarded. Among the 659 books appearing these days, is Yannick Haenel, already noted for "Circle", prices December in 2007, who sees his new novel, "Jan Karski" (Gallimard) crowned. This award given to a text dedicated to a hero of the Polish resistance, illegally entered the Warsaw ghetto to refer the horror to the allies, strong is a sign. For years, in effect, the microcosm seemed not swear by the autofiction. This year, in contrast, French literature turned resolutely towards the elsewhere, towards each other, as if it had finally decided to put an end to the navel gazing that prevented the rise of powerful, universal works.
Among the novels that, following this vein will ignite the tables of booksellers, Marie NDiaye occupies a place of choice with "Three powerful women" (Gallimard). This triptych organized around three women who are fighting for their dignity is a strong reflection on the complex ties between the French and Africans. With "Demon" (the Olivier), Thierry Hesse traces the history of half a century, through the eyes of a great reporter in Chechnya, which contrasts the history is doing and that of his Russian Jewish grandparents exterminated by the nazis. For his part, Laurent Mauvignier, in "Men" (midnight), abandoned his usual themes for self-imposed poorly healed wounds of the war of Algeria. Finally, include "The incorrigible optimists Club" (Albin Michel), funny and abundant Chronicle in the 1960s of Jean-Michel Guenassia (read below), and "The Arab" (the Olivier) of Antoine Audouard.
A powerful Besson
The another good surprise of this school is the quality of novels published by so-called authors popular, used large prints, which surprise, this time by the magnitude or the ambition of their production. Thus, the big book of Patrick Besson devoted to Africa, but River will kill the white man"(Fayard), slightly by the power of his eyes and his writing. Similarly, "Sephardi" (Albin Michel), of Eliette Abécassis, evocation of the fate of several families around a marriage cursed through the generations, is the book that was expected of it for a long time, mixing his keen sense of popular literature to the intelligence of the associate of philo. It will also salute "A French novel" (Grasset), best book of Frédéric Beigbeider since "99 Francs". This novel, coming just after the very aggravating "to rescue forgiveness", affects by its sincerity, even if the posturing, which is the charm of the character is never far. Starting for part of its lost time, "beig" did not lose his. Or Patrick Poivre d'arvor, who, in "Fragments of a lost woman", is successful, despite some anomalies, to find the words to say the suffering of a man who becomes mad love. A die.
Cities in America
Effect Obama requires, American writers are more than ever a rich "foreign" receipt of some 229 novels cherished children. They offer US an America in all its States, plunging into the electric atmosphere of its large mythical cities. New York before September 11 is the heroine of the new "novel puzzle" Column McCann, "And that the wider world continue its mad" (Belfond) - a day of 1974 where the tightrope walker Philippe Petit crossed on a wire space separating the Twin Towers (read below). New York just after September 11 is the backdrop of "netherland" (the Olivier), by Joseph O'Neill, intimate account of the disintegration of a couple of foreigners in a city under tension. Los Angeles shines in all its lights in the huge novel of James Frey "L.A. Story" (Flammarion), a bomb fragmentation which tells of how fragmented the chimeric lives of multiple characters. The scenery: this is a portrait trash and tragic that brush Charles Bock of the capital of the game in "The children of Las Vegas" (the Olivier) - denunciation of a lost America which grows its children on the street.
There will be full of yankee literature with the delivery of heavyweights October: the new "Exit ghost" Philip Roth (Gallimard). the news of Jay McInerney "I spat everything" (Olivier); and "Black girl, white girl" (Philippe Rey) of Joyce Carol Oates.
Indian Titans
South America is also with the revisiting of the Colombian Antonio Caballero "An evil without remedy" (Belfond), hailed as a masterpiece in his country - the hallucinées adventures of a poet in the Bogota of the 1960s. Other continents are not at rest. The India provides us with a match of titans with "History of my killers" (Buchet Chastel), of Tarun j. Tejpal, the author of the bestseller "Chandigarh far", and "The throne of the Peacock" (the threshold) of Sujit Saraf - blocks for framework Delhi. China is represented by one of its best current writers, Mo Yan, and its fable gargantu-esque "The harsh law of karma" (the threshold). On the border of Europe and Asia, the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak goes bare in "Black milk" (Phébus). Finally, one of the most elegant books of this fall comes from Switzerland: "Private lessons", or the drama of exile seen by the German-speaking writer Alain Claude Sulzer (Jacqueline Chambon), prix Médicis foreign last year with "perfect boy".
You will find the criticism of most of these works in the intermission of the coming weeks pages
