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An “unfathomable lake” inside the “I”, a parking lot of cars arranged by color, an abyss: “SPACE” is the first chameleon novel by a young writer who is also a musician.
As we get older, it is clear that Books, in their form at least, become standardized. To be convinced of this, you only need to compare a library dedicated to children (where everything is generally upside down, in a variety of formats) and the shelves for adult readers (where ideally nothing sticks out too much). The narrator of SPACE (in capital letters, a title that takes up space) shows a certain nostalgia for childhood albums and understands that he misses the illustrations. He particularly remembers the fascination that had on him “embossed books” where, when you turned a page, a whole world suddenly stood up, “unfolding in the space of Inca temples and fortified castles, funereal forests and English haunted houses, lace architecture which, when the page was turned, lay back there, vanished in the vanished thickness”. From now on, among the grown-ups, “no building rises into the air”. We can make up our minds, or why not ask ourselves: how can we remedy this with the means at hand?
Intensity peaks
The first novel by Gabriel Gauthier (born in 1992 on a hill overlooking Rouen, in Mont-Saint-Aignan, graduate of Fine Arts, musician, two books of poetry behind him) has no illustration and no cutting system
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