Universes cosmopolitan ** *
It's snowing, the sky is white, the ground is white. Spooky impression which tell each other that the landscape is sublime. Only bare trees add a touch realistic. It does not return from an unknown planet, not part of our material crunchy, very real. Away from this silent world to read the news of David Dorais, The cabinet of curiosities.
Universe attractive than those depicted in these stories. They transport us into areas of glare and shadows, sometimes confusing mystery it is preferable not always clear. The interpretation is done in successive readings, as many layers as observed on the granitic crust. The news seems to come out of a fabulous drawer clutter with unusual instruments. Among them also fall books who are building an orderly existence, copied their characters on about maintaining good neighborly relations. A prospective reader misunderstands that fiction being subject to a common rationality, hence discomfort to flick through a book as an object of joy, fascination. The black rock Is not synonymous with "evil black" Cari gems? News related to children are among the most successful. We especially enjoyed the little Christmas puppets depicting a man torn by grief. Unable to recover from the loss of his wife, he trains his son in mourning inappropriate his young age ... In The disappearance author narrates the influence of a mother on her son. The heartbreak of the father and the mother's blindness indecent fall under the sign of death, adorned with an aura of fantasy. The text Lustukru? invents monsters traumatize a child, later joined him "a stupid old man, the idiot in the neighborhood." Other stories propel the reader into imaginary worlds involved in the development of landscapes made impressive scenery where the solitary wanderer is lost deliberately, confusing day and night. The true and false. Maelstrom of feelings that real life is sometimes nonexistent. At the risk of being intoxicated by visions of extravagant ... Das Spukhaus. The Virgin of the three hands tells the story of an adventurer cloth and a passeism pathetic. Near Hyde Park in London, in a chic hotel in the eighteenth century, Horace Stuyvesant exhibits to a young club members houri contaminated by the explosion of a plant that has reduced a country unnamed, it is easy to imagine. Inevitably, a lewd conversation exchanged between the "regulars such eminent circles leaving [...] run their eyes on each projection" of the body of the teenager still. An American has "made a fortune in information technology" will unveil the pot aux roses ... Dangerous subject that we find in stories racists or erotic books of the fifties.
Also exciting as they are, we can not mention all the new gathered in this collection. We liked the tiger jumping , image sequences reminiscent of the best Japanese films of the genre. What happens girls wrapped in plastic takes place in an atmosphere of disorder and morbid, murderous and pornography. The text short guide to the descent into hell we felt stretched, weakness of the entire book, as if the author wanted to assert his erudition on some titles. In conclusion, David Dorais, not forgetting to congratulate, is back on itself. In a second-hand bookstore in Montreal, he spotted a group of new authors. The cover illustration is an object that astonishes the plot. A cabinet, a curio cabinet, includes various singular figures such as those which the author was inspired to invent his stories. Confabulation or accuracy? It was in Paris that the fictional David Dorais elucidate the mystery of the etching inserted in a manuscript called Descriptio completa mirabilium Bastel camera. The reader is entitled to a full description of the House of Wonders From Bastel signed, proving that the firm did exist, he has "survived the vicissitudes of the world for over two hundred years [...]".
scholar Series, covering topics rarely employed in the new modern Quebec. The tone perfectly amalgamates assigned to a writing sought, necessary to style the author uses. Open a safe, cabinet or a book conjures up beings from the universe muss burying our brief dormant. Monsters of childhood, Curse unusual microcosm faun who, during the nights insomnia, we may snap. With a sumptuous talent, David Dorais takes this mythology to their account to impress an avid reader of supernatural stories. However, we had a reservation: the new fitting in a minimalist kind, the thinning of several descriptive of them has annoyed or tired ...
The cabinet of curiosities, David Dorais
Éditions L'instant, Quebec, 2010, 227 pages
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