The list of the morning
This week, “The World of Books” advises you to read a great novel by Graham Greene, vigorously dusted by a new translation of Claro; of the story made by Argentina Belen Lopez Peiro of the preparation of the trial of his rapist; of a literary essay on the work of Boualem Sansal, which recalls, in addition to the talent of the Franco-Algerian writer, which he has been languishing for almost six months in an Algiers jail; of a narrative of Tharcisse Sinziun, resistant Tutsi against the genocidaires, in 1994; Finally, a hypnotic novel of the Nobel Prize in Norwegian Literature Jon Fosse.
NOVEL. “The Ministry of Fear”, by Graham Greene
Recruited in 1941 by his younger sister Elizabeth, Graham Greene (1904-1991) became an agent of the MI6, where he was entrusted with the antenna of Freetown, in the British colony of Sierra Leone. It was in December 1941, aboard the cargo cargo. The Ministry of Fear“entertainment” completed in Africa. Fruit of the striking experience of the Blitz, lived in April 1941, the novel saturated all the codes of the spy narrative to turn into a dreamlike journey with vertiginous flip-flops, a carnival of harassing masks enlightened with alert rockets.
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Greene ties us to the murderous and hallucinated wandering of Arthur Rowe, who, freshly released from the asylum where the “charitable” murder of his sick wife, wins an opulent cake in a fun fair. But the cake is a fake -It’s a real cake-and he never ceases to suffer from pastry. Caught in the ruthless gear of a espionage case, he is faced with the conducts of a heterogeneous clique of Nazi sympathizers looking for a microfilm. We will see him change his identity and become amnesiac, go from an anti -aircraft shelter to a psychiatric clinic, cross a spiritual circle or man -sided tailors, collaborate with the Yard, meet love and escape death.
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