Mental illness, sorority, pedophile network: the 6 books of the literary school year<

1.#Semble, we barked in silence, from Gringe

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The book

Guillaume, aka the rapper Gringe, tries to reconstruct the mosaic of his childhood and that of his little brother, Thibault, using sketches of souvenirs.Guillaume is """"""""angry, precious, anxious"""""""", Thibault is """"""""adorable, but rebellious"""""""", """"""""Thibault is candid, [Gring] is calculator"""""""".

This is the shock, when they start from their lost paradise, near Larochelle, for Cergy, a """"""""colossal concrete block placed in the middle of nowhere"""""""".Small, Guillaume protects Thibault from others but the dangers have gradually changed its nature and it is soon from himself, which is diagnosed with schizophrenic, and of the voices that he hears that Guillaume would like to subtract him.One afternoon, Gringe returns from lessons and sees him chatting with Inspector Derrick, in the post.

Gringe, this """"""""knight of light"""""""", two years old, has not always been exemplary.There is also violence and brutality, in high school for example where he undertakes his protective costume to burn him and humiliate him.

With Orelsan will come notoriety.Guillaume is exceeded, does anything, tries to forget himself, lives success only half, sabotes himself and refrains from being happy.The money he earns, he dilapids him.All eyes are on him and turn away from his little brother.He can no longer help him.

Then come the time for travel to two, where they drag their injuries, then the possibility of appeasement, probably with this confession book.

Why we love

The youth stories of Gringe and its introspective quest rub shoulders with the poetic or raw texts of Thibault, populated by monsters, hallucinated evenings, but also of drugs and alcohol.His visions, his trips are trips he details with dreamlike.His voices guide him in crazy and sometimes dangerous adventures.

The two brothers are still alike in their impossibility to comply with what society expects from them, as well as in the love of words.They live in an eternal present.

It is also a story on psychiatric disorders, difficulties in living with, medical wanderings, abscons judgments, fleeting eyes and infantilizing speeches.With sensitivity, the rapper describes what hopes, abundance and guilt felt, wrongly.

The result is a magnificent, uncompromising book where a lot of love and a little humor travel.We knew that Ganging could handle the words with dexterity in a rap with disillusioned words, but he also knows how to give birth to literature, at the place of memories, at the crossroads of melancholy and tenderness.

Extract

Together, we barred in silence, from Gringe, HarperCollins, September 9.

2.# Anger, by Alexandra Dezzi

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The book

A little lost after her first literary success and her past as a rapper, Alexandra DEZZI, half of nettles, sail between her parents' house in the suburbs, boxing lessons in Paris, where she rummages and tries to pour all the violencein her and the apartment of the boxing teacher, where they spend a lot of time in bed.In this new novel appears to be thirsty to satisfy low instincts, impulses, a return to the wild, in the blood and in stupid.She also describes the violence of a one-way relationship, underpinned by the blindness caused by the vertigo of desire and selfish male pleasure, which annihilate everything else: her desires put aside, self-esteem ...

She also tells of her rape by two rappers in a formula 1 and the psychic destruction that results from it.Inapable suffering turns into anger.She is the only way to get out of it, to take out the deaf rage of oneself.""""""""Only lava will take you to the exit.The lava that will spare, sovereign and burning, spreading its black flow above you.""""""""

Why we love

This is the punch text of a rapper on unfulfilled desire, wounds and a certain lack of love, written with dazzling, words that slam.She delivers her global daily life and her traumatic memories, her rages and her hopes.Burning sex scenes, but also his frustrations, are narrated with force.Sex, like boxing - and as its writings -, are shaped by its impulses, its fears and its impulses.

Extract

The anger, of Alexandra DEZZI, Stock, 26Auve.

3.# The other half of oneself, from Brit Bennett

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The book

In 1954, in Mallard, Louisiana, 16 -year -old twins, Stella and Desiree, disappeared.Direction New Orleans.They fled this village with descendants of slaves, whites and mulattos, where it is fashionable to marry loss of skin than you.After a year, Stella takes off overnight, leaving desperate desperate.Having met a young white man with whom she falls in love and fleeing systemic racism and segregation, she will pretend to be her life during Blanche, while her sister will marry a black man, then will come back to her mother in her village D'origin.The girls of the two women meet in Los Angeles and the secrets resurface.

Why we love

In this second masterful novel, the author Brit Bennett deals with colorism, which is based in particular on the hierarchy of skin colors within blacks.In this very engaging family saga well put on several generations, from the 1950s to the 1990s, stories intersect in the form of different identity quests, linked to skin color but also to genre.The question of origins tapped all the characters.Where do they come from?What group do they belong to?Do we look like parents who do not have the same color as oneself?What does it mean to be black?Is it a skin color or the fruit of a story, a heritage?These questions are brilliantly addressed by the author who creates a permanent tension in the plot, between the quest for parentage, need to belong to a group and want to stand out, to be yourself.Gemellity is a common thread in this fascinating romance novel, whether others like other yourself or you split, split.

Extract

The other half of oneself, from Brit Bennett, otherwise, 19.

4.# Like an Empire in an Empire, from Alice Zeniter

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The story

Antoine comes from Brittany and after Hypokhâgne, committed himself as a parliamentary assistant to a PS deputy.He participates with fiery in struggles for which he vibrates, then gradually saw the decrepitude of the Socialist Party. """"""""Le parti est un animal crevé dans le ventre duquel on s’abrite encore mais ça commence à puer.[…] This way of doing politics is dead and I do not know any other.""""""""He is looking for real struggles, flees cynicism, also dreaming of writing and elsewhere.Like Annie Ernaux, he went from the middle class to the Parisian elite. Il se voit comme un transfuge de classe, qui oscille entre la fierté du parvenu, la colère du """"""""tout ça pour ça"""""""", la défense inquiète de celui qui a peur du retour à sa place d’origine. Avec les gilets jaunes, il a le """"""""sentiment que ce n’est plus possible de continuer comme avant, […] que plein de gens commencent à aborder des sujets qui étaient considérés comme des trucs d’allumés ou d’extrémistes jusque-là.Climate emergency, the end of oil, the exit from capitalism.""""""""

As for L, then adolescent in the Paris suburbs in the early 2000s, she was passionate about the web, Reddit, 4chan, a whole imagination that she shares with others.She lived much more on the internet than in high school or in her family. Dans sa vingtaine, elle intègre les Anonymous et devient un """"""""berger"""""""".She defends Julian Assange and participates in the attacks.We discover the history of anonymous, the codes of inside in opposition to the outside.

Why we love

These two characters, who will walk together, have a need for insurrection, revolt.Where are the debates and the big fights?We feel the disillusionment of young people in the face of politics, cynicism which is gaining ground, the shift of elected officials - or aspiring elected - towards political politics, towards electoral calculation.

There are a little despents, in the cash style and impactful and in very current social subjects, such as the Revenge Porn.The character of L makes one think of the hyena in Vernon Subutex, avenging heroine and badass.This fiction brews topical subjects without appearing artificial.

Extract

Like an empire in an Empire, by Alice Zeniter, Flammarion, 27Auve

5.# Capsize, from Lola Lafon

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Story

Cléo, 13, gives herself to lost body for her passion, modern jazz, which she practices at the MJC of Fontenay. Elle ne rêve plus que """"""""de devenir pro"""""""".When Cathy, elegant and warm, who says working for the Galatée Foundation, the mark, she is a good fairy. Pour avoir la bourse, Cléo doit tout donner, se montrer """"""""moderne"""""""" et """"""""non conventionnelle"""""""", dans l’espoir de passer les étapes de sélection.Its presence at lunches on Wednesday noon is required. C’est là que de vieux jurés s’enquièrent de ses avis sur tout et que l’un d’eux l’embrasse et glisse sa main sous sa robe, pour tester sa """"""""maturité"""""""".She leaves the place.A shame then hides another, that of having let yourself go and the shame of not having been able to relax to let it go.

Cléo does not have the scholarship, but must find other candidates for Cathy, become his assistant.Like a folder, she recruits other teenagers who will attend these lunches.First victim, she also becomes an executioner.

Why we love

Lola Lafon devotes her latest novel to her favorite subject, grip and sexual abuse.Following the book Le Consent on Matzneff, and the Epstein affair, we discover with amazement this pedophile network where preado dancers were bait with the help of a false scholarship, to satisfy old disgusting grimés in members of the juryof a dummy institution.

We follow Cléo's journey, a teenager in 1985 and a young woman of 28 years in 1999, as well as other victims who will struggle all their lives to rebuild themselves.Young girls destroyed for some, will continue their life Cahin-Caha, of which Cléo who not only suffered, but feels responsible for having subjected. Elle s’en voudra toute sa vie, se sentant être une """"""""mauvaise victime"""""""".This story shows in filigree the discomfort of all these girls, after such trauma, mixing shame, guilt and misunderstanding.

Extract

Capsize, from Lola Lafon, Actes Sud, 19Août.

6.# The synthetic heart, from Chloé Delaume

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The book

Adelaide, 46, is going through an existential crisis.She has lived in the past 7 years with Elias, until routine uses her soul and nerves.She had always been in love, leaving a man for other arms, but she then discovers celibacy and at the same time the invisibility of elderly women. Elle se sent """"""""devenue socialement un fantôme, sur le marché de l’amour, de la viande avariée"""""""". Cette recherche d’un homme tourne à l’obsession et toute sa vie est régie par ce désir d’être à nouveau en couple, ayant une peur panique d’être seule, une """"""""épousite aiguë"""""""" qui relève de la névrose.

She works in a renowned publishing house, taken up by a shark obsessed with figures, which wants to replace literature with motorway books, including the one on the Tour de France cheeses.She feels the same pressure and cruelty of failures in her personal life as in her work.

Après maints coups humiliants pour l’ego, elle va finalement trouver la rédemption autour d’elle, grâce à ses amies, des """"""""sœurcières"""""""" d’un soutien sans faille. """"""""Il n’y a que l’amitié et la sororité qui préservent de l’abîme.Adapted lifestyle, in a circle come together, organize to laugh and not die on its own.""""""""

Why we love

This powerful text describes emotional dependence, how some women do not feel outside of men's gaze.

We think of Mona Chollet who perfectly describes in witches the rejection of old women, the loss of their power of seduction.The subjects discussed - rupture, old age, loneliness, aging, sexism - are heavy and leading but thanks to the alert and bite of the author, the pill goes with humor and brings us a lot of hope.

This text is also funny and spicy towards the edge of the publishing, its quarrels between publishers, the waltz of prices, the literary return which follow each other but are not alike.

Extract

The synthetic heart, from Chloé Delaume, Seuil, 20Auût.