A boy natural Patrice
I promised myself to read this book for a while, after having enjoyed La Signora Wilson the same author, and reading a laudatory review on his first book, A boy natural .
The least we can Salsa say is that Patrice is a concise writer. 95 pages, no more. The writing is spare, almost dry, giving only the contextual elements that needed to follow the action well. Particularly striking when read out of the authors of the nineteenth, in verbose descriptions and digressions of all kinds, but not unpleasant either. To be concise, Salsa is no less haunting. If you read his book in one evening, we think for several days.
The boy whom he speaks is indeed paradoxical and troubling. Beautiful, model son towards his mother who is a single, disciplined and brilliant at school, where it is almost always too mature for his age, effective judo champion on roller skates. But the kid too good and too smooth arouses envy, especially those of men. There is faced with a perverse mixture of complacency and cruelty. Despite his young age, he mastered all situations. And towards men, it is not tender.
What happens when he returns to his father while the child is already a teenager? Salsa does tells us that the beginning of the reunion, this discovery should I say, they have never known where his father filled with pride at this son so perfect, seems to send the boy to tame. The fall, which leaves open all possibilities, not a matter of concern ... especially when you close the quotes carefully set the boy in a notebook ...
Personally, instead of homo-libris , I preferred La Signora Wilson more "fleshy" in my opinion, that the maze is a little more complicated for the reader, and I probably reread, since the greatest fault of the author in my eyes is to have published two books: one can only hope that these early bright have a sequel !
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