Human Comedy.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23643 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377920730 |
From the long and slow funereal meditation in honor of a vanished world (My Life Among the Shadows), to the tragedy reduced to its purity where passions are revealed with force and cruelty (The Fox in the Name), Richard Millet has continued, book after book, to add additional facets to his Corrèze “human comedy.” This volume, built on the model of the Hundred New Stories, where some characters are recurring and others discreet shadows, declines the whole range of emotions and combines musical flights and earthly gravity towards a pure enjoyment of words and language. Despite the transparent Balzacian reference to a “natural history of society,” this series of one hundred “tales” allows a glimpse of a self-portrait in small touches…
From the long and slow funereal meditation in honor of a vanished world (My Life Among the Shadows), to the tragedy reduced to its purity where passions are revealed with force and cruelty (The Fox in the Name), Richard Millet has continued, book after book, to add additional facets to his Corrèze “human comedy.” This volume, built on the model of the Hundred New Stories, where some characters are recurring and others discreet shadows, declines the whole range of emotions and combines musical flights and earthly gravity towards a pure enjoyment of words and language. Despite the transparent Balzacian reference to a “natural history of society,” this series of one hundred “tales” allows a glimpse of a self-portrait in small touches…