We still wonder why the short story does not have a good rating in France when it is one of the most demanding genres and is celebrated elsewhere.
It is fortunate that novelists such as Belinda Cannone are tackling this.
With
Les Vulnerables
, she signs - let's dare to use the words because they correspond to the feeling we experienced when reading it - a marvelous collection.
You absolutely must read these nine short texts, each containing a nugget.
Delicacy even if her pen delves into the deep evils of our time, sense of narrative and formula, story that grabs you by the throat...Belinda Cannone has put all her heart and her talent into the creation of this book which depicts the marginalized, the invisible, the speechless - she chose to bring them together under the title
The Vulnerables
, undoubtedly because it is the fragilities of these beings which reveal them, carrying them like tightrope walkers always on the tightrope between life and the danger of death.
And it’s about these fragilities…
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