“Nothing is more foreign to Malraux's novels than those of Josette Clotis. With him, adventure, action, noise, blood. In her, the feelings, the circumstances, the color of the day (…). He lives in intensity, she prefers to be serene.
In a few words, François Ouellet, in his erudite and brilliant introduction to the reissue of A
Measure for Nothing
, tells us everything that contrasted the novels written by the couple.
A rediscovery that we owe to Éditions de L'Arbre vengeur, ninety years after its publication, by Gallimard, for this second novel dominated by the
"transience of living things"
and the
"luminous precariousness of existence »
.
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There, Clotis, two years after his first attempt (
Le Temps vert
),
“a fiery and rustic little novel, with a naive freshness”
, according to Françoise Theillou*, offers us the bittersweet story of amorous torment and afflictions. of the heart.
And this, through the story of a boarding school resident, Marie-Pila, nicknamed Ukulele, 15 years old, and Pierre, met…
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