“Muse means mammal that we observe,” writes Olivier Lussier in his free and astonishing Cariacou. In this case, this mammal is the deer that it hunts or, above all, all those deer that it does not hunt, for lack of finding them. Reduced to the silence of his hideout, his feet and fingers frozen, he undertakes, to fill the wait, this “hunting manual for the use of poets”, a literary object where stories and hunting tricks, poems and historical finds intertwine. — which is reminiscent of the trilogy 1984by Eric Plamondon. In a language as lively as orality, Olivier Lussier revisits the codes of hunting, through his eyes as a child or that of the man he has become. The offering is generous and cheeky as a hunting story can be, but also sensitive, spare and respectful of this life that hunting aims to take. Without a doubt, Cariacou is a literary trophy worthy of hanging on the wall.
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