One country, one author: in Canada with Hélène Frédérick
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By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
Hélène Frédérick was born in Quebec in 1976 and lives in Paris. She is the author of two novels in Vertical editions, La poupée de Kokoschka (2010) and Forêt opposite (2014), published by Héliotrope, "series P" for North America. His third novel, which takes place in Quebec in the late 1980s, has just appeared under the title La nuit sauve chez Verticales.
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Cover of the novel "La nuit sauve" © Verticales
“ To settle the end of the lessons, at the beginning of the summer of 1988, in a remote valley in Quebec, teenagers met at the edge of a cornfield. A bonfire, full-blown rock and several motorbikes parked near the neighboring farm. With intensity, Hélène Frédérick takes advantage of this sleepless night to make a free portrait of this youth through the alternate glances of Fred - the excluded flayed alive -, of Mathieu - the annoyed playboy -, and of Julie - the melancholic pleasure.
Their bodies swirl between two ages, get lost in the dark, get jealous from afar, fanning themselves more closely, but we sense that a drama will happen. Of this rage to live, will remain the persistent brightness of some " shooting stars " to which this novel is dedicated. "(Editor's presentation)
(Replay of July 19, 2019)
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