Friends poets, dreamers, lovers of words, here is a book that will take you for a walk. Its author Virginie Troussier obviously loves to listen to herself write. She plays with finesse and not without a certain result of her writing.
The difficulty for the reader remains to follow it in the course of his peregrinations. If one starts from the premise that this book is just there for the beauty of the writing, then it reads pleasantly. The descriptions, which are not lacking in superlatives, are eloquent and detailed. The wind in particular and the manoeuvres on the deck of a sailboat are well transcribed. With mini-touches, the writer manages to immerse us in his world.
But in the absence of a background story or follow-up, you get lost in the reading. To go from life as a couple on a sailing boat sailing down from Brittany to Gibraltar to a Parisian apartment and the description of life there lacks any connection.
Too bad, I enjoyed the beginning of this book despite its very confusing beginning on the search for an explanation of a recurring dream on the burning fields (hence the enigmatic title of the book...). But then I got lost when the nautical journey turned into a motionless urban wait.
- Virginie Troussier
- Éditions La Découvrance
- 165 pages
- 13 x 20 cm
- 15.00 euros
