Bernard Werber recounts his life as an ant and other microcosmic books
For every writer in his world, from encyclopaedist Werber to Taiwanese poet Kao to British rocker Nick Hornby, there’s something to devour this week depending on the mood.
Bernard Weber spends his life under the microscope
Bernard Werber, 60 years old, a brilliant conversationalist to follow and beyond…
DR
Biography The term biography seems improper, since bernard weber amuses himself with a brilliant mischievousness to smoke genres to the limit of deception. “Memories of an Ant” takes the form of a tarot deck with its 21 mysteries and the numberless ones. So many openings to compose the most playful of a course that, under extravagant exteriors, makes its way through the labyrinth of solid erudition.
At the entrance of the Wheel of Fortune, this magician of appearances confesses: “My discoveries about hypnosis helped me play even better with the reader’s imagination.” He who claims to have gone through several reincarnations never closes the door to the fantastic.
Fabulous storyteller, the sexagenarian does not deprive himself of anything. After all, as he recalls, there are three sides to every story: “Yours. Mine. The truth.” Meditate.WRENCH
“Memories of an Ant”
bernard weber
ed. Albin Michel, 425 p.
Bernard Werber, writer, journalist, lecturer, among many other lives.
RD / WERBER
Sandrine Kao, poetry perched between childhood and adulthood
Sandrine Kao excels in her flutter between disciplines, moving from children’s stories to sociological essays, this French-born Taiwanese in the Vosges fascinates with her unique oblong albums.
GRASSET / DR
Youth Sandrine Kao has preserved from her Taiwanese origins a predilection for the delicacy of the print, the originality of the frame. Echoing the stunning “Wonders,” “After the Waves” delves into the seeming simplicity of minimalist graphics.
In panoramic panels brimming with bubbles, sometimes abandoned like a drop of water in a landscape, all the emotions they provoke the encounter. With the world, with the other, with oneself perhaps. Finding her little character without a name, clothing or nationality, Vosges stealthily explores the multiple requests that fall on the head of whoever comes into the world.
A small tribe that looks like manga characters but exudes western familiarity.
DR
There is no nonsense here, except an infinite poetry that transcends banality to tend towards the fantastic beauty of everyday life. From 4 years old… but the older ones will not get bored. WRENCH
“After the Waves”
Sandrine Kao
ed. Youth of Grasset, 40 pages.
An immense talent, very discreet in the shade of the blooming lotuses.
DR
Nick Hornby translates Brexit into a love story
New In “Like You” Nick Hornby he leaves his beloved rock’n’roll to sing the blues of “Brex-lit”. The Briton is late, where his countrymen have left pages of glorious desolation-see “The Heart of England” by Jonathan Coeessential in this regard.
Lucy, forty-something, divorced, two children, hires Tom, a liberated but restless twenty-something, butcher shop salesman by day, DJ by night. As always, the music pulses the atmosphere here, crackles the trivial comic details to better record the path of existential reflection.
However, the chronicle of time does not turn gray as before. The procrastination of the frustrated lovers moves the knife in the “game” of the sociological tear with laughter so disenchanted that they sweat the bitterness of a lost time.WRENCH
Nick Hornby’s new title dates back to the breakdown of Brexit.
DR
“Like you”
Nick Hornby
ed. Stock, 432 pp.
Cecile Lecoultreof Belgian origin, with a degree in art history and archeology from the University of Brussels, she has been writing in the cultural section since 1985. She is passionate about literature and cinema… among others!
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