The version that interests no one
“It’s strong, raw, rough writing. It put me in touch with something eminently punk in writing. It’s as if I felt a generational clash, but one that also delighted me. As if I had a gateway or a key to enter the universe of this generation from which I feel far away, but which at the same time experiences the same wanderings specific to these ages, in a very different way. I tiptoed in a bit, then finally, the novel completely grabbed me. It’s like a cataclysmic encounter with punchy writing. I really liked it; It completely took me away from what I usually read in Quebec literature. »
The version that interests no one
The Quartier
358 pages
Take your breath
“ It’s the story of a girl who is in love with a guy who has multiple sclerosis. This novel is incredible. It’s grandiose. I read it in one go. […] It’s an extremely cinematic way of writing, we see that it can very well be transposed to the screen and it completely blew me away, sucked me in. It’s been a long time since I’ve had momentum like that for a story that shocked me, challenged me, that I wanted to appropriate and transform. It did me a huge amount of good. It’s really worth discovering. It’s a book that took me through a whole range of emotions, I laughed, I cried – it’s rare that I cry while reading a book, but I cried my eyes out, do. »
Take your breath
Quebec America
144 pages
An adult life
“ It came out in 2020, but I reread it because it’s a friend. I had read his first, too, Oceans. This is his second, it’s an autofictional novel. James has an incredible culture, an unsuspected life. He studied politics in France, he is the son of a diplomat, he was raised partly in Cuba, he met Fidel Castro. But he’s a great writer and he’s a guy who has incredible standards regarding what he sees and consumes in terms of literature and theater, and that translates into his way of writing. Sometimes, I have trouble with autofiction, but here, there is really a work on the sentence which means that we are first and foremost caught up in the writing, then we forget the autofictional aspect of story. »
An adult life
X Y Z
160 pages