Posted on April 15, 2025 at 08:34. / Modified April 15, 2025 at 08:34.
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What remains of an ordinary life when it ends? Some objects, testimonies of relatives biased by their own eyes. It only lasts a time. “It is not even a century for everything to be engulfed by the large jaw,” observes Léonie Adrover, drinking a sip of coffee at the family table of his house in Delémont, bathed in a soft spring sun.
This question constitutes the starting point of the first novel by the Jurassic, Evening passage, Recently published by Editions du Seuil, in Paris. He recounts the meeting of Blanche and a young woman on a bus from an anonymous bilingual city in Switzerland, on Friday evening. The first, sick, set the date of his death to the following Sunday. She chooses the second to send him a centenary pact: she will have to listen to her story and those of other people who have entrusted her with their memory, and transmit them in turn when she considers the time.
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