It's a fact: some readers feel tired.
They are tired of being sold stories that are crudely disguised as novels.
Rapist fathers, junkie mothers, annoying brothers, sneaky sisters, evil uncles, cats who died early, the list goes on.
The Goncourt prize has just rewarded Brigitte Giraud evoking the death of her husband with lots of
"what if?".
The Femina jurors found the story of a couple united thanks to a dog amazing.
Why not?
Le Figaro Magazine
has nothing against animals, but we are not at
30 Million friends
either.
Storytelling has become a national sport.
Titanic Freque on England
Fortunately, among the Anglo-Saxons, the defeat of the imagination did not sound the death knell.
Three years after
The Heart of England,
a subtle novel about the heartbreak caused by Brexit, Jonathan Coe embarks on a titanic fresco on his country: before the beginning of the book, a family tree allows you to find your way around among 43 characters .
The amazing book...
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