Sublime

There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. Herman Miller, George Nelson, Charles and Ray Eames.

conjuguant dans une même dialectique individualité et communauté. Comme dans la plupart de ses autres livres de l’époque, il y clame son aversion pour le mercantilisme et la violence de la civilisation urbaine contemporaine. L’oeuvre n’est pas sans résonnances avec celle d’un Herman Hesse ou d’un Jean Giono et lui vaut le Prix Nobel de littérature

Sylvie felt awkward in front of Nicole, who was beautiful, and whom she’d just met for the first time. She wondered if this young woman thought she was a terrible person for falling in love with her sister’s husband. This was the first time Sylvie had considered what the opinion of strangers might be, and she felt naked, lacking, under Nicole’s gaz