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Jostein Gaarder - THE DAUGHTER OF DIRECTOR OF CIRQUE

And yet ...

It's always so strange to be disappointed by an author that was believed to have. Jostein Gaarder is beyond the pale of my favorite writers. He knows his words soak in the humor and poetry, fashions characters affirmed in the heart of a world without compromise mad inventiveness. Travel which he invites us can not be lived without him. It thus paves roads that none had dared to imagine before him.

But sometimes the idea is good splash. I have used this expression in these pages for others. Yes, like Werber and his Butterfly deadly dull, yes, as Dan Brown's book Deception and missed ... it happens to them too. Do not blame them too.

The idea behind this book is brilliant though. Gaarder tells us the adventures of a spider. In fact animal with eight legs, a hero whose weapon is an overflowing imagination without limits. It invents stories with a shovel, synopses in industrial quantities. And why not, therefore, to profess? The spider is the inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers made, missed or that become, themselves, have enough. And he sells his stories he will not write. And he created a web of links for, but the subtle mesh increasingly tight. For each client thinks is the only one to benefit from this valuable boost ...

enticing. And yet ... The author will feel compelled to lead his hero in a romance melodrama redolent liberated sexuality, post-hippie on the back, all without any obligation. It's overrated, childish and at times nauseating. So? The end we obvious hundred pages too soon. All this is finely stitched cable construction. There is more fishy, there is whale under gravel in this book! Read

for form and pen, for ideas that burst (as many synopses of stories that will never be told so?). Ends as fast as it begins to close again with a sigh, a large sigh.

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Gilles Leroy - GROWING

contemporary writing to the assault of the novel

I was not expecting to read a novel and also move away from him. I chose a site on the institutional famous whose name recalls a river of South America (...?) And moved its members to compile lists of their books thematic favorites. Convinced by the other titles in this list that Maupin had many, I started on "Growing Up" by Gilles Leroy what I did not know. Ouch.

I closed that book exasperated and I could only wish at this moment: the fall sharply. Who am I to allow me that? Nobody is precisely the interest of the Internet: everything is permitted at all. But it's not as simple. History is an appalling banality: adolescence, innocence, with, finding a parallel sexuality, and the bourgeois urbanites who openly despise their hick cousins because they are a mirror which reflects the annoying ... Marriages and factories that close and serious illness. In short, the novel of the 90s. Nothing more, nothing less. But the banality stands, say.

same concern for writing. We can not say that Gilles Leroy write badly. His writing is powerful, incredibly rhythmic, he loves the gradations and metonymy improbable way the deliciously oxymoronic. But guess what: nothing moves me. I never managed to get a page. I swam next to the story of this writing the endless sentences, punctuation incomprehensible. It took me 80 pages to understand who was who among the poor ... three characters who are ultimately nothing more than the husband, wife, son. Tadam. But it was so elliptical and go for it I you put a little metaphor for it, and go ahead for circumlocution and there. And I'm talking to you the main characters and at the same time I tell you what he thinks, all this for anything else happens with someone who has a nickname but no one knows who he is. Argh.

The worst were in the bottom brackets. Yes, hooks in which the author speaks to us in an aside. Thus we learn that such a place we slid his fingers on the keyboard and he typed a word instead of another and attempts to understand this "slip of fingers." Or it tells us what he has failed to write but never write not.

There. Not very interesting. Not very pretty. No poetry for two cents. Not informative. Even his contempt for the campaign is incredibly banal and ultimately not even funny. It's not for lack of spread in the pages and pages ...

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Jostein Gaarder - THE MYSTERY OF PATIENCE

Initiation methodical vapor metaphysical

remained famous in the world since "The world Sophie "where the saga of a child through the ages of philosophy, ancient to the present day on the trail of a strange mysterious man, the Norwegian author again explores the world of love of wisdom by climbing an additional level in the dynamics of the story.

former professor of history and philosophy, Jostein Gaarder has a soul of a tutor. It transmits and writes for it. He writes that for this? If Sophie led the drive on the banks of a university unusual, Hans-Thomas, the young protagonist of this novel brings us to reflect on the tops of a tale with many fantastic springs, sparkling. The common thread: Hans-Thomas and his father traveling throughout Europe in red Fiat, Norway the country of philosophers (Greece, by Jove) for any such mom lost eight years ago. Need to find itself in the land of wisdom, she runs from a career of more superficial and is a model, she is successful. And the journey, each step takes a turn more and more strange. The young hero finds himself at the heart of a history dating back over a century, around a deck of 52 cards. Will he solve the mystery of patience?

"Who will reveal the destiny to survive. "

is a sweet and tangy colors epic but never honey. Accents are soft but not naive. Reflection is affordable but never in vain, and always great stuff. It is also an opportunity to rediscover the Oedipus myth, the story of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, with its curious occupying the Pyhtie, lit by gas underground permanently hovering at ten thousand, she rambled at length the day to the delight of the most famous ancient tourists.

You did nothing to bring on the beach this summer? Do not tan idiot: "Sophie's World" and "The Mystery of Patience" does not avoid each other. Learn, be entertained, travel across Europe and in a fabulous imaginary island not refuse between watermelon and feta.