La maison Dieu, by Céline Laurens: the strange parish

From the first pages of The God Housethe reader senses that the title of Céline Laurens’ third novel is an antiphrase. A building has burned, souls are wandering… And even if, “of course”, a rooster crows at dawn, we doubt that it is capable of clearing the horizon of the mist and awakening the morning star in the dark night of this family history.

Sixteenth of the Marseille tarot, depicting two characters falling from a burning tower, the Maison Dieu card which illustrates the cover suggests a complete overthrow of the world, the renewal of times – for better and for worse. Everything passes, everything tires, everything breaks, as they said at the end of the Ancien Régime.

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