Changes Bradshaw (Bradshaw The variations)
Rachel Cusk
Translator: Celine Leroy
L'Olivier - 02/10
280 pages - 22 euros
A novel vibrating honoring the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach, playing the melody for us of the great contemporary Anglo-Saxon.
Variations Goldberg Bach are thirty-two movements calling a work known for two things: its content-rich forms and rhythms, and by the fact that it ends as it began. Rachel Cusk has applied these principles to the Bradshaw family, she splits a major year in their lives in thirty-two chapters, devoted to its various members, and is ending as it began. He will live this cycle is called Thomas Bradshaw, British forties who took his wife with a decision that will give their lives a turning they could never have imagined. Yet this is a simple decision: to exchange roles. Man Thomas, stays home to care for their daughter while his wife Tonie accept a promotion that will keep most away from home. Thomas will take the opportunity to take stock of his life, learning the piano, while Tonie will emerge from the humdrum housewife. Those who make up the rest of the chapters are those that revolve around this central cell: other family members Bradshaw, the mother of Tonie and tenant Olga. Young Polish immigrant who tell them "the people I live with seem perfectly normal, but it's wrong (...) This is not a normal family. Maybe it's not so easy to be normal. This sentence sums up the novel, this fight to be conducted by regular members of this family. Then develops the talent of Rachel Cusk who with his ability to come in daily by everyone act of literature. We often think of Virginia Woolf, the author also echoes making us cross a doll named Clarissa. Her ability to describe everyday life with a cynical bite, we had already seen in: Arlington Park (great success of the French literary season 2007), we did live in the heart of this family so close to us because of its inherently concerns humanities.
Page Article in the January / February 2010
Article published in www.lechoixdeslibraires.com, read in part by François Busnel in the log books sound.
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