Cameltoe Female Atheletes

A woman, a child, a man *** 1 / 2

This morning, we was surprised by a few flakes of snow. We had the uncomfortable feeling that winter was coming on tiptoe. The days and frosty white plague us. We love sidewalk cafes, parks and squirrels, which wander the streets. Seasons in Bloom! For several hours, forget the desolation of the landscape by reading the novel by Donald Alarie, Thomas is back.

The world is such that the author does not seem to touch them, masterfully portrayed. It covers in one hundred pages of many subjects from modern society unrestrained. First, there is a man, Thomas, who, after fifteen years lived in Ontario, returned to Quebec in the parental home. His father died, her mother was placed in a nursing home. There is a woman, Annie, with whom Thomas had a brief affair before he left in Ontario. She is a lawyer, independent, sedentary. Thomas, who dreamed of exile in Australia, made him believe he was going on this end of the world. There was no way for her to follow him. There Benedict, the child of Annie since her birth she is raising alone. Around these three individuals will ordinary life takes place across a small village. However, Thomas will receive a tragedy hit. A degenerative disease that attacks the nervous system to condemn the wheelchair. There's David, writer, carpenter and painter. We met him in the previous novel by Donald Alarie, David and others. It is also the father of Annie. Wise man who rarely makes an opinion involuntary door few judgments, takes away from the village rumors. Asked no questions when Annie had told him fifteen years earlier she was pregnant. Curiously, the peaceful image of the man not unlike Donald Alarie, discreet and silent when it comes to extol his work that he has important .... There are the familiar faces that, in the park or in his house, Thomas observes. Marco, Eve, Leah, Odile, Donald Maurice, Frances, Anthony. Young and old will play a major role when Benedict seek his father. Serve as a model for the author to describe the hassles experienced by each of them.

The story is clear, narrated with appropriate words. No flash weigh down the stylistic theme of life that the author grabs with both hands, exposing a low voice, in measured steps, the complaints are incongruous that we shrug of annoyance. Some shout, some kill. Donald Alarie, away from excess, indicating through the speech of his characters reflected the injustices committed in the name of antiquated laws, conservative traditions, a variety of pernicious arguments no longer in the beginning of the twenty-first century we would like more liberal. To substantiate his statements truthful, Donald Alarie involves three main voices weaving his story: that of Thomas, Benedict and Annie. The trio of choice will ultimately agree to family reunions.

Pending such an outcome, Donald Alarie be able to hope. Between the lines, it suggests that nothing ever is definitive, especially not the deception dividing men and women since time immemorial. We wonder why so many outmoded taboo obscure the memory of persons, reduced to a kind of paralysis that explains human stupidity ... Donald Alarie slides according to his story, the horrors of battered women, the loneliness of elderly people, isolation residences, the worst evils of pedophilia, misunderstanding of homosexuality among young people. And what about Annie, episode by hour ...

Roman expanded, murmured, which lessens the tensions of the contemporary world rigid, moves us away from books steeped in selfish moods, not aimed further or higher than the wrinkled flesh of navel. We love that the writers highlight the misery of men and women to inform the reader attentive. Often the little things added up to each other reveal the strength of writing, the significance of a style. Power the effect of words is a hammer blow our minds! So is it the novel by Donald Alarie. Far modes, ignoring any compromise, the narrative reads with the conviction that every existential microcosm contains its share of benefits, especially when it is contemplating the end of a telescope where humor spreads the muted echo of laughter ...


Thomas is back, Donald Alarie
editor XYZ Collection "gypsies"
Montreal, 2010, 125 pages

Dominique Blondeau - dominblondeau@yahoo.fr