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Christian Dorsan, writer, blogger and early contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group , recommends Nothing is Lost by Pierre-Louis Basse, published August 20, 2020 by Éditions du Recherches Midi.
Her favorite quote:
Families keep under the cover so heavy and so powerful so many shattered dreams. Should we spot the key to these happy Atlantic summers, but still imbued with a light veil of sadness on my mother's face?
Why this book?
- Because it is not a linear autobiography, but a disordered and repetitive look at childhood where everything must converge on a single date, that of the meeting with the painting Les Roulottes by Vincent Van Gogh.
- Because this book traces life paths, those of communist parents in Nanterre where we rub shoulders with the slums, of the grandfather who returned from the camps, but also of this neighbor who throws herself from the tenth floor and who was the initiator of the author, but also of this sister, suffocating in this suburb and who decides one day to leave.
- Because this book is an encounter with a painting, but not only, with a key moment in life: the encounter with words.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot. The look of a man on his childhood between the death of his older brother before his birth and that of his grandson of a few days, a man to whom a teacher had told his mother that he would never do anything good in his life. Until he met a painting.
Characters. The adult and child narrator, Communist parents, college friends, the tutelary figure of the grandfather returned from the camps, the tired Madonna, the memory of the deceased brother.
Places. Nanterre.
The time. Late 1960s, early 1970s.
The author. Pierre-Louis Basse is a radio journalist, he worked for Europe1, writes a column in L'Humanité . He is the author of several novels.
This book has been read as a testimony to an era and a family in history.
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