Like Dominique Barbéris, of her generation, the Franco-Swiss Pascale Kramer is a discreet novelist but whose work, book after book (fifteen novels since
Variations on the same scene
in 1982) touches the heart.
She had not published for six years and
Une famille
, the story of a boy, Romain, whose alcoholism was for those close to him, and to varying degrees, a tragedy.
With
Les Indulgences
, a magnificent title, Pascale Kramer once again places at the center of her fictional device a character, a man, Vincent, whom we will follow, in Lausanne, from 1977 to 2016. The setting, as is often the case with the novelist , is not essential.
On the other hand, the relationships between people, the atmosphere, the gestures, the words exchanged are essential.
Reading it, we think at certain moments of this voice-over which punctuates certain films by Claude Sautet, the filmmaker who has undoubtedly best filmed groups, friends, families, lovers.
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