- With the advice of several booksellers, "20 Minutes" has prepared a list of books to inspire your summer readings.
- Funny, breathtaking, popular, recent or older works… there is something for everyone.
Has the closure of bookstores during lockdown got you in all your mind during the coronavirus crisis? Have you decided to take advantage of the summer to catch up on literature? You are quite right. Thanks to the advice of booksellers from all walks of life, 20 Minutes has selected five books to accompany you this summer.
Elizabeth Jane Howard's “English Summers”, the most popular.
"For all those who have loved and who love the great family sagas", the first volume of the English Summers by Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose considerable work had inspired the television series The Cazalets on the BBC in 2001, is "THE book that everyone is reading this summer, ”says Corinne Giraud of the Comme une orange bookstore. A colorful entry into the bourgeois universe of the Cazalet family, which is found every pre-war summer in the family estate of Sussex. 576 pages of pleasure which can be read, no, devoured "without problem".
“The Cazalet saga, I: English Summers”, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Round Table edition, March 2020, 24 euros.
“Roulio mows the hair” of Julia, the funniest.
"She's barge, she's funny, she's tender": it's Roulio, esthetician at the Institute Mows the hair, the one who can not help removing the intergluteal hair of her lovers, the one who speaks in a language totally shifted between slang and eighteenth century, the one whose life is totally incredible. Recommended by the Les Beaux Titres bookstore , Julia's work won the Rabelais Academy Award in 2019, a well-deserved award for this first novel which is really "too laughing".
"Roulio mows the hair" by Julian, Le Tripode Attila edition, May 2018, 15 euros.
"Text" by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the most panting.
“For those who like a little black thriller” the Les Beaux Titres bookstore suggests Texto by Dmitry Glukhovsky, a puzzling story by Ilya, a former prisoner who takes revenge on the one who put him in prison. In order to escape the due date of his death, he grabs his victim's phone, pretending to be her, until he becomes completely confused. After the Metro 2033 , Metro 2034 and Metro 2035 trilogy , Dmitry Glukhovsky is making a comeback with a thrilling thriller "very well done and with a VERY bad ending".
“Text” by Dmitry Glukhovsky, Atalante edition, January 2019, 23.90 euros.
“The Feminine Gaze, a Revolution on the Screen” by Iris Brey, the most feminist.
“Re-watch a bunch of movies and series from a different angle”? Yes, it is possible thanks to Iris Brey's essay, Le Regard Feminine, une Révolution à l'école, and her theory on female gaze: translation, " out of identification [with the male hero] to go towards the sharing of experience, it is feeling with the heroine, it is a look that highlights the feminine experience in our images ” . "If we look at the rape through the male gauze , it would be the rape scenes in Game of Thrones , which are not filmed as an act of violence, but as an erotic act," Iris Brey explained to 20 Minutes in March. The researcher specializing in gender studies provides an overview of examples drawn from the history of cinema and series, to (finally) change the way women are filmed.
“The Female Gaze, a Revolution on the Screen” by Iris Brey, L'Olivier editions, February 2020, 16 euros
Alice Oseman's “Heartstopper”, the most LGBT.
“This is typically the book we would have liked to read when we were a teenager”: Heartstopper, Alice Oseman's three-volume comic book illustrates the first love between two boys in high school. “One has already come out, the other is a rugby player; the first does not imagine that the latter is gay and yet ”, enthuses Nicolas Wanstock of the Les mots à la bouche bookstore. A comic "ultra light, ultra romantic, surely written for teenagers at the start but which can appeal to everyone", according to the bookseller . To discover absolutely!
"Heartstopper" by Alice Oseman, Hachette Romans editions, October 2019, 12.90 euros
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