There is something mythological in this second novel by Nicolas Delisle-L’Heureux.
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The place, first, an isolated village called Val Grégoire, located near Mont Brun, which cannot bode well for a ski mountain. There are also its inhabitants with a more than human aura: Mayor Desfossés and his imbecile offspring, La Petite Sale or even Le Baron, a notorious criminal whose fame is also due to his disappearance from a village where no native could never escape…
This is not a detail: in female dog kidsthe author constructs a world closed in on himself, where life is made up of violence and boredom, but where the improbable friendship that unites Marco, Louise and Laurence, whose story the novelist tells from the point from one to the other, will perhaps lead to something better.
Stephen King wrote that the road to hell is paved with adverbs. Nicolas Delisle-L’Heureux has taken a few steps in this direction in this novel where he slips enough to make people wince. This imposes the observation that even if he knows how to create strong scenes and images, part of his writing remains distant, if not in appearance.
You have to have strong morale to dive into female dog kids, who lingers in the dark corners of humanity and smells anything that can smell bad. Incest, rape, deception, punches, murder, the novelist forces the line. In the world he depicts, as in the mythological tales, one does not escape one’s destiny. It is heavy. Two things give impetus to this thick and long novel: humor (dark, but not only) and the character of Louise, a wounded fighter that life will not be able to bring down.
female dog kids
Nicolas Delisle-L’Heureux
boreal
316 pages