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La Corde
by Stefan aus dem Siepen was published on January 6, 2022 by Éditions Archipoche.
Vanessa Paunovic, contributor to the 20 Minutes
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, recommends
La Corde
by Stefan aus dem Siepen, published on January 6, 2022 by Éditions Archipoche.
His favorite quote:
“The rope is long! Believe me ! I've come a long way, but I haven't found the other end. »
Why this book?
Because it's a tale whose subject, fantastic and which attracts
all the attention of the villagers of a small isolated community which lives in the woods, is a rope. A simple rope placed on the ground, which sinks into the woods and which incites the men of the village to follow it blindly. The rope, symbol of an absurd quest, leads greedy men to leave their families to go on an adventure on an uncertain journey. Will following this rope allow them to live even happier and more prosperous like the tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" or is it the beginning of a decline?
Because the appearance of the rope takes place just before the harvest
which marks the end of an agrarian cycle and the beginning of a new cycle associated with death and resurrection. The strange eruption of the rope in the existence of the villagers causes a break in their precise habits, such as that of closing the shutters at fixed times, and we watch each other without there being a leader. Here, we do not venture into the woods, the mothers instil "a salutary fear in the souls of the children" by telling them terrifying stories of "hunters brought back from the forest dead or seriously damaged".
Because when reading
La Corde
, one thinks of the disturbing and fantastic
atmosphere of the film
The Village
by M.Night Shyamalan which leads outside the authorized perimeter. “The rope had a hold on them, all of them being in the grip of a powerful and exhilarating feeling, the feeling of living an event which, unprecedented in the history of the village, had broken down all the barriers of intelligibility. Convinced that they are living a magnificent adventure from which they should bring back something exceptional, they continue to the limit so as not to return empty-handed.
Because we think of the alienation, the madness and the emergence of violence
that the pursuit of this rope provokes among the villagers. The rope stretches endlessly, a silence has settled in the village with the absence of the men which continues and the wait near the rope at the edge of the forest. What to do ? Wait ? Resume the course of existence while waiting for them to return? Will they come back? In which state ? Will they be transformed by this experience?
Because this novel uses the tales of the Brothers Grimm.
We find his childhood spirit through extraordinary and nightmarish stories with endless dark forests populated by ferocious wolves where the characters often have to solve a difficulty.
Here, it's about finding the solution to the riddle of the rope that will lead the villagers to success or disaster...
Because in this short novel, the mysterious rope
invites itself to disturb the settled and standardized existence of villagers and allows the author to explore their moods.
The idea for the book came from a dream of Stefan aus dem Siepen and to this dreamlike dimension is added that of romanticism where the characters follow the rope until losing their reason.
Is this a warning to encourage them to return in time to their harvest and to their families when they cross this dead village which “is nothing more than a heap of lifeless dwellings”?
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
A small intact village surrounded by an endless forest.
One evening, a peasant is walking and he discovers a rope that leads into the forest.
He alerts the villagers who decide that a team of men will leave to solve the enigma...
Characters.
Bernhardt, the villager who discovers the rope, Rauk, the teacher who accompanies the group of villagers who have gone on an adventure, the Rope.
Places.
The forest.
The time.
Once upon a time, a very long time ago...
The author.
Stefan aus dem Siepen was born in Essen in 1964. After studying law at the University of Munich, he joined the diplomatic corps.
He has been posted in Luxembourg, Shanghai and Moscow, he works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin and is also the author of
Le Géant
(Ecriture, 2016)
This book was read with
curiosity and enthusiasm.
I too wanted to know where the rope leads that leads the characters in the novel to lose their reason!
Note that a television adaptation on Arte is currently broadcast in the form of a miniseries.
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