FIRST NOVEL
♥♥♥ Precious Wars, by Perrine Tripier
Gallimard, 192 pages, 18 euros.
“The search for lost time is almost impossible. » This phrase by Philippe Sollers comes to mind when reading this melancholic and impressive first novel, both in style and in construction, of which the author is only 24 years old. The narrator, Isadora Aberfletch, of “medically dubbed dying man” where she reluctantly moved, unfolds the course of her life through the four seasons in ” the House “ where she grew up with “Little Mother”, “Little Father”her two sisters and her brother and whom she never wanted to leave, renouncing all personal life to remain “the vestal virgin who maintains the hearth”. This house, of which she has made the smallest details her own, like so many shields against the passage of time and destroying everything, has preserved the imprint of intense joys and irreparable losses. That of the fabulous summers of childhood with the extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins and the inconsolable grief of the disappearance of Harriett, this little sister whose ghost haunts her. “I understood that the past was the only thing my life was worth living. Me, the House and our memories, we would do great things. For familiar things cannot die. »
Veronique Cassarin-Grand
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