As part of a universe that says all the brutality of the world, don’t the unbearable devastation of the individual, as well as his strategies of resistance, the "violence" of the novel and its strength as well, consist in the delicacy of its look on the world and in the courage to tell the little deaths of every day with a more and more refined and essential writing, a writing to read and listen to, in order to understand the meaning of life? From Exercices de deuil to Frère animal through Sweet Home, Cathrine's prose tends to decrease gradually, as if it needed to lighten itself in order to better narrate the heaviness of the world, to become aggressive in order to better write his anger. The human anguish and violence are even more poisoned as tragically ordinary. It is the just and measured staging of everyday sadness and violence that make the work of Arnaud Cathrine fascinating. With Frère animal, the author works out a new literary form, the "musical novel", halfway between the novel and the song, in which the brevity of the text associated with the sound and the sung word, makes the reader a listener, to be "in" life through writing. Is it when words are not enough that one feels the need to listen, maybe? To listen to oneself?
Notes de colère chez Arnaud Cathrine
GRAMIGNA, VALERIA
2010-01-01
Abstract
As part of a universe that says all the brutality of the world, don’t the unbearable devastation of the individual, as well as his strategies of resistance, the "violence" of the novel and its strength as well, consist in the delicacy of its look on the world and in the courage to tell the little deaths of every day with a more and more refined and essential writing, a writing to read and listen to, in order to understand the meaning of life? From Exercices de deuil to Frère animal through Sweet Home, Cathrine's prose tends to decrease gradually, as if it needed to lighten itself in order to better narrate the heaviness of the world, to become aggressive in order to better write his anger. The human anguish and violence are even more poisoned as tragically ordinary. It is the just and measured staging of everyday sadness and violence that make the work of Arnaud Cathrine fascinating. With Frère animal, the author works out a new literary form, the "musical novel", halfway between the novel and the song, in which the brevity of the text associated with the sound and the sung word, makes the reader a listener, to be "in" life through writing. Is it when words are not enough that one feels the need to listen, maybe? To listen to oneself?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
