As the highlight of his new novel, Guillaume Musso quotes Camus, Simenon or Gary, in an attempt to make people forget his Achilles talent.
What is Achilles' talent?
It is not to have any.
And yet it would only take one sentence.
We don't ask for much: just one sentence, over 400 pages.
A new sentence, which aims right, which touches and grasps. Take, for example:
"The first time Aurélien saw Berenice, he found her frankly ugly."
This one is not from him. This is the debut of
Aurélien
d'Aragon, where Musso nabbed the plot of his thriller. One sentence, damn it, is that so hard when you write a novel? Or, come on, let's not be so demanding, we would have liked to find a new observation. A single relevant remark. I looked for it in
L'Inconnue de la Seine.
Sometimes there is a paragraph that begins well:
"The room was freezing",
but it ends badly:
"Along a stone fireplace ran the burners of a gas fireplace."
I saw some gas fireplaces in
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