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Arnaud Cathrine |
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Prix de la nouvelle de l'Académie Française 2015 |
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Ce n’est pas l’amour. Pas encore. Ou presque trop. Ou plus tout à fait. Pourtant les personnages de ce livre se croient tous amoureux. Alors quoi ? Leurs histoires d’amour ne seraient-elles que des tentatives d’amour ?
Passant de l’humour à la gravité, de la confidence à l’outrage, de la pudeur à la sensualité résolue, Arnaud Cathrine revisite, au fil de dix nouvelles, un motif universel, fluctuant et insaisissable.
>>> Pas exactement l’amour [Not exactly love] has received the Prix de la nouvelle de l'Académie Française 2015.
This is not love. Not exactly. But all characters in this collection talk about love. So what ? There are all these hectic moments before the encounter : not yet love. The passion that makes us alive but seems like a pathology : not really love. Crumbling, disillusionment, sometimes both, or loneliness : still no love. And when the beloved is gone, fled or dead : life after love.
Throughout these ten stories, maybe we can reach the real nature of love, a perpetual attempt. Changing registers constantly, from humor to gravity, from unsaid to verbal harshness, from melancholic modesty to eroticism of bodies, Arnaud Cathrine knows how to dramatize this universal pattern, fluctuating and elusive.
PRESS
“A diary of unquiet loves, written as rather melancholy music, these ten stories, in a rare and delicate way, composed one of the most beautiful books of Arnaud Cathrine.” (Télérama - Michel Abescat)
“So many variations on the couple, passion, sex, feelings or states which preceed and follow love, or just take its place.” (Le Monde - Raphaëlle Leyris)
“Pas exactement l’amour : a text that loves love, with all its contradictions, madness, its despair and intoxication. Exactly a passionate book.” (Le Canard Enchaîné – André Rollin)
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