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Laura Said, contributor to the
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Mardi Soir 19h
by Gilles Legardinier, whom she interviewed.
His novel will be published on October 6, 2021 by Éditions Flammarion.
Her favorite quote:
- First, and from now on, you will pronounce my name without scratching it. My name is not Aline or Hélène or Hélice. My name is Elynn. While we're at it, you'll also say "you" to me, like everyone else.
He forces himself to turn to me in disbelief.
I encourage him:
- Come on, we're a big boy.
We are not afraid, and we go for it.
He glares at me.
- I'm dying and you're playing the fool?
Why this book?
Because Gilles Legardinier's novels, which are very pleasant to read,
have a “feel good” effect which makes you smile during and after reading.
The author always finds the right words, regardless of the situation in which his characters find themselves.
His point of view that gives faith in humanity and in the kindness of those around us.
Gilles Legardinier confessed to me that he wanted to "write a story about people who have a heart and for whom the human being is important".
Because we identify very easily with the characters
to slip into their story just by turning the pages.
Starting with Elynn, our heroine, who is a nurse.
At the beginning I believed that his profession was linked to the events of the last few months and to the highlighting of those who have been on the front line in hospitals. But Gilles Legardinier told me that "caregivers are always very important and present in every novel". In
Tuesday evening 7pm
, what interested her, “it was not so much that the heroine was a nurse, but the fact that she took care of people she did not choose; this obligation of humanity towards strangers ”.
Because I found myself in Elynn.
It's hard to know what we're going to do with our life, even though it's already started. It is not because we are an adult that we have infused science. We always ask ourselves questions, we doubt, and this novel shows that it is never too late to question ourselves. “You shouldn't be afraid to question yourself,” adds the author. Life is a multitude of choices, and it is by adapting, by defining yourself by things in which you believe, by taking risks, that you finally discover who you really are. "
Because the humor, present throughout the story, is subtle
and always well placed.
The comparison between hospital life and the zoo is recurrent throughout the chapters, without ever falling into the cliché.
It reminded me
of La Fontaine's
Fables
.
Gilles Legardinier told me that he really liked fables: “They are short stories, with educational aims, and if my books are longer, I like to see them as fables, but rather with emotional aims.
This allows you to bypass the subject and bring readers back to their own life ”.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Elynn is no longer happy.
Is it due to his couple who are on the spot or to his job as a nurse?
She wants to evolve and realize her childhood dreams.
To change her daily life, she will enroll in a gym and meet unexpected and overwhelming encounters.
Characters.
Elynn, nurse with a very monotonous pace of life.
Enzo, her boyfriend never present and addicted to video games.
Her friends, fellow nurses more wacky than the next, the women of the Tuesday night class and Mathieu, their mysterious sports teacher.
Places.
A hospital, and a gym for the vast majority of the novel.
The time.
Of our time.
The author.
Sincere and close to his readers, Gilles Legardinier, is a screenwriter and author of several bestsellers, who alternates genres between comedy, thriller or even adventure.
This book was read with laughter and a light mind
.
The author's fluid writing takes us on serious chapters until the last sentence which calls everything into question thanks to his humor.
I really liked the heroine's interior monologues and her way of seeing the world by comparing her universe to a zoo.
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