Marguerite Duras elegant prose, said Princess Haiku

Marguerite Duras is one of my favorite authors. Her elegant prose is so perfect at times that it becomes a clear river. There is a preverbal, nuance of movement in Duras' work that is a dancer at work. -Dancers at times striking such extreme postures that we believe there is no way for them to disengage.

Disaffectation and detachment are keywords in Duras's pursuit of love. Evidence of attachment disorder perhaps, but more likely the disinclination of a writer's lost in Borge's mazes to commit to any particular perspective other than the silken notes of erotic touch.

I recently read Yann Andrei Steiner and it's a master of alienation.

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Announcing the winner of the Princess Haiku Literary Award 2008

Princess Haiku is happy to present her first annual literary award to Muriel Barbery for her unique and empathic novel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog."

Elegance of the Hedgehog was first released in August 2006 by Gallimard and the novel became a publishing success in France the next year, selling well over a million copies. It has since been translated into several languages and released to countries outside France, including the United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Muriel Barbery novelist and philosophy professor has been the recipient of critical acclaim for her novel.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a rare study into the dialectics of human nature and a discourse on social class consciousness, love and the philosophical dilemmas of life.

The book follows the concierge Renée Michel, whose concealed intelligence is discovered by an unstable but precocious girl named Paloma Josse. Paloma is daughter of an upper-class family living in the upscale Parisian apartment that Renée is appointed to work in. A novel featuring erudite characters, The Elegance of the Hedgehog alludes to literary works, including music, films, and paintings. It incorporates themes of philosophy, class consciousness, and conflict.

The reader once introduced to Renee the subtle, enters her experience and thought; is disarmed with her perspicacious intellect. As Renee's story assumes resonance in our emotional chambers, she becomes concierge excelsior. -The narrator that guards the gateway of our inner chambers; our own hidden residence, where we would prefer to arrive unannnounced, live privately and in the obscurity of our foibles and avoid dangers of friendship and love.




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Looking for a Good Book-Prix Goncourt 2006

26/08/2006

Prix Goncourt 2006

This year, Jonathan Littell gained celebrates his price for “the Benevolent Ones”. The price was decreed last on November 6.
These are the other 14 novels nominated by the jury.

The brother of Rousseau
Only sons

A bridge of birds
Antoine Audouard

The lover in short trousers
Alain Fleischer

Fault lines
Nancy Huston

Magic childhood

The wood of in love one
Gilles Lapouge

The désamour

Neither you nor me
Camille Laurens

Contours of the day which comes
Léonora Miano

Newspaper of Swallow
Amélie Nothomb

To disappear
Olivier and Patrick Pepper of Arvor

Marilyn last meetings
Michel Schneider