Editions: Gallimard
Collection: Collection White
date: February 2010
Number of pages: 282 p.
About the author: Corinne D'Almeida lives in the Paris region. Antibes is his first novel.
Comment: Story of an unconventional life paths, Antibes tells the story of a nurse's aide who works on the services of an old lady in Paris. The narrator is also the author evokes through the details of his daily moody, intense moments of his life: the suicide of his father understood his unconventional sexual experiences (the author and her sister both love the albino), Corinne Almeida resurrect the ghosts of a past tragic events woven sordid or incredible. Haunted by memories of a sister sometimes protective, sometimes perversely, the author demonstrates a disconcerting decline that gives the text an undeniable charm.
Offered by a friend who personally knows Corinne Almeida , this book does not initially got inspired. Tags that rank among the novels, I was not at all encouraged to take an interest. Yet Antibes is diametrically opposed to the idea that I had made. Clichés of romance mushy like I expected, I was really pleasantly surprised. If the author is difficult to follow because of the many digressions and returns in time poorly marked, she nevertheless shows great imagination boldly put into words. Death, love and sex are recurring themes in her writing and its impact. At the boundary between morbid and comical, this novel is disturbing in both its modern and vintage (it frieze sometimes dadaism ) than the story it unfolds. I found it difficult to read and I had to repeatedly go back and do not lose the thread of the story. Also note that the long footnotes pages as part of short stories in history, interfere with understanding. This text could much in my opinion, to be adapted cinema because writing vivid and lyrical Corinne Almeida, lends itself readily. In fact, I enjoyed this novel for the mystery and enchantment that emerges. A successful first novel so for a most singular fate.
Excerpts: " A woman was killed by love. She was not stabbed. She drank a glass of poison that do unforgiving. It was fortunate. She would not be forgiven. Maybe she wanted was not to be certainly not. (..) It only had a sister but we do not kill for her sister, was what his sister thought, she called a taxi to the hospital because emmner had to the take him somewhere. " p.31
" How could he come and go that way? It was very simple, in the same way that our father had appeared and had disappeared in the manner of a rupture, a cut in the real, like a misunderstanding . "P. 200
" Hearing Antibes, my future had to jump into the cup. Alas, I did not keep their eyes on him, I could not see him leap and run the black surface concentric shocks (a vortex in a cup of coffee). Antibes? "I said. Yes, I have a villa. It was crazy I thought the number of people who had a villa in Antibes . "P.272
Comment: Story of an unconventional life paths, Antibes tells the story of a nurse's aide who works on the services of an old lady in Paris. The narrator is also the author evokes through the details of his daily moody, intense moments of his life: the suicide of his father understood his unconventional sexual experiences (the author and her sister both love the albino), Corinne Almeida resurrect the ghosts of a past tragic events woven sordid or incredible. Haunted by memories of a sister sometimes protective, sometimes perversely, the author demonstrates a disconcerting decline that gives the text an undeniable charm.
Offered by a friend who personally knows Corinne Almeida , this book does not initially got inspired. Tags that rank among the novels, I was not at all encouraged to take an interest. Yet Antibes is diametrically opposed to the idea that I had made. Clichés of romance mushy like I expected, I was really pleasantly surprised. If the author is difficult to follow because of the many digressions and returns in time poorly marked, she nevertheless shows great imagination boldly put into words. Death, love and sex are recurring themes in her writing and its impact. At the boundary between morbid and comical, this novel is disturbing in both its modern and vintage (it frieze sometimes dadaism ) than the story it unfolds. I found it difficult to read and I had to repeatedly go back and do not lose the thread of the story. Also note that the long footnotes pages as part of short stories in history, interfere with understanding. This text could much in my opinion, to be adapted cinema because writing vivid and lyrical Corinne Almeida, lends itself readily. In fact, I enjoyed this novel for the mystery and enchantment that emerges. A successful first novel so for a most singular fate.
Excerpts: " A woman was killed by love. She was not stabbed. She drank a glass of poison that do unforgiving. It was fortunate. She would not be forgiven. Maybe she wanted was not to be certainly not. (..) It only had a sister but we do not kill for her sister, was what his sister thought, she called a taxi to the hospital because emmner had to the take him somewhere. " p.31
" How could he come and go that way? It was very simple, in the same way that our father had appeared and had disappeared in the manner of a rupture, a cut in the real, like a misunderstanding . "P. 200
" Hearing Antibes, my future had to jump into the cup. Alas, I did not keep their eyes on him, I could not see him leap and run the black surface concentric shocks (a vortex in a cup of coffee). Antibes? "I said. Yes, I have a villa. It was crazy I thought the number of people who had a villa in Antibes . "P.272
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