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Wow, funk, it's crawling with bugs in the compilation of sixteen very short news Yigit Bener aptly titled Other nightmares , recently published by Actes Sud in connection with the Turkey Season in France (July 2009 - March 2010)!

All the little animals that nobody likes to be there, ready to get out of the pages that contain them: insects crawling spines, buzz, Zonzon, irritating, stinging, disgusting, spiders, scorpions, dung beetles, cockroaches, ants, flies, mosquitoes, gnats, and so on of the most disgusting - ah, the moods of a woman visited by a tapeworm!

Meeting with a few cockroaches you put water in the mouth (p. 82):
" Some big, small ... fat, short, long ... black as coal, light brown or dark yellow, gray, almost red. Zebras, united, spotted on the back ... Separate antennas or glued to the horizontal or vertical, curved antennae. Adults, battleships, chubby, with bulging abdomen.
Encyclopedia mentions only three species: the American, Germanic and East ... Deceit! It is clear that it is not limited to those who take up residence in the steam or radiators, there were certainly of Indian origin, Mongolian, Japanese, African, Australian, or even ancient Rome ... Not to mention the species Eskimo, or even Lapland Latvia! "

All these creatures, they fear, and we love the irony of the author, we want more. And then, all things considered, the human world is hardly more appealing: vile feelings and destructive body uniforms, power games, doctor of death, more or less voluntary torturers of innocent frogs.

In fact, these stories are extremely political and universal. Judge for yourself with that other extract (p. 87):
" A good mosquito is a mosquito that never leaves his swamp. Those who entered in your field of vision are hostile mosquitoes have the firm intention to sting you pump the blood: do not hesitate to massacre them, God will know his own!
Those who think I am not in harmony with nature are wrong. In harmony, but each home . Why not?
Mixing genres has never been successful. In any case, nature is made like that. Take the test, if you want: put a gazelle and a lion together, and see see what happens! "

The lightness of tone flirts with gravity these new when Turkey is very present in the background bittersweet. Some notes from the translator mark out what might go unnoticed by a casual reader of the realities of Turkey, like Article 301 of the Criminal Code on "insulting Turkishness, the Republic, institutions or organs of state "who can punish any crime of opinion.

One caveat to my enthusiasm: the abuse of ellipsis reading a little discomfort. Too bad!


Yigit Bener, Other nightmares (Actes Sud, 2010). News translated from Turkish by Celine Vural

Woke Up With Pain My Ankle

Fools literary and wheelbarrows

The AFPA Haute-Vienne organize next Thursday April 1 at its facility in Limoges Romanet
promising a symposium entitled

" Talks barrows, wheelbarrows, mad literary imaginary libraries ".

To view the program, click here .

For information and registration:
AFPA
ZI Haute-Vienne Romanet - 27 Leonard Street Samie
87000 LIMOGES
05.55.30.01.30
marie.peyrat @ afpa.fr

And to see some very pretty wheelbarrows (some pictures above),
appointment until 31 March to Bfm
( French multimedia library of Limoges )

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Mainstream vs. nerds

( I wrote this post for Marginales , my blog Mediapart. I put it here too as it relates to public libraries )

I have a problem here thirteen years I worked in the library public, in direct service to the public, and I am unable to say what "public" means, I really do not know what the general public or which is a priori good for him, including (implicitly) "not too highbrow."

Who are Mr. and Mrs. Granpublic? I know this category, so often put forward when it comes to public libraries, has never been defined or studied by scholars of the humanities. Mr. and Mrs. GP did they vote on Sunday? On the right, left, center, to extremes? Have they abstained? Do they have taste in all things means? A school teacher does it belong to the general public? And a high school teacher? And a university professor? And a worker fired from his box? And a cheerleader? And an illiterate gypsy lover of films by Jean Renoir? And a journalist? Retirees are they more emblematic of the general public that suburban teenagers? The middle classes, is this the general public? To whom do we work? Danielle Steel is it public? And comics? And Marcel Conche? And poetry? The short novels are they wider audience that large? In addition, history of introducing a little disorder in our categories, the choice of Mr and Mrs Granpublic are sometimes unexpected, their tastes and interests do not always wear to where we expected them to go.

Another facet of the problem, a corollary of the previous one: I am almost unable to determine if a book, music, film, are "intellectuals" - I'm not at all physiognomist, it may be linked . The category of "nerd" for me is meaningless. The books of François Jullien are they nerds? Certainly, one follows the thread of his best thinking if you know a little Chinese and Greek, but conversely they can awaken the desire to learn these languages and thoughts. The small diffusion films they belong to this category "Highbrow" ill-defined, so useful to exclude funds for the general public? Poetry Is nerd? To me, it speaks to the soul far more than the intellect, it is sometimes more, too, to fight. Courses by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France, I bet it's nerd - and yet! The books of Nobel economics are they nerds? In my opinion, they can be useful to understand the world in which we live. Trying to understand is that being brainy? But in the "public" with whom I work everyday, I see a fair amount of people willing to have the tools to understand. Are they all for intellectuals? Well no, I tell you that it is the general public! Damn

then resume from scratch. I really need help!

Hacker Pokemon Leaf Green

Librarians intellectos ...

... or nymphos?

And presto! in the cage for librarians ;-)

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Twenty-three good reasons to like "Enigma" D'Antoni Casas Ros

- Antoni Casas Ros is a young Catalan writer.
- Enigma is a book full of books.
- This is a novel full of writers.
- We immediately want to reread.
- Joachim, Ricardo, Naoki and Zoe have their "enigma".
- Enigma happening in Barcelona.
- This novel does not last page, so no end.
- It makes you want to read The revenge of a woman Barbey d'Aurevilly.
- Zoe loves Jose Saramago and Antonio Lobo Antunes.
- You do not get bored during the sex scenes.
- Antoni Casas Ros is a gifted tragicocasses situations.
- Ricardo is a failed poet who succeeds and ends badly.
- This novel gives eager to go and eat tapas del Vinya Senior Piazza Santa Maria del Mar in drinking dry white wine fresh.
- Naoki has a very personal way to listen to music on his iPod.
- Zoe swam far out to sea.
- A two-character is an assassin or a killer.
- Another useless books by a love of literature.
- All abandon themselves to the fluctuations of love.
- Joachim Being disabled does not kiss.
- This novel gives eager to read Enrique Vila-Matas.
- Naoki funding a subversive act somewhat banal.
- This novel makes you want to go wandering in Barceloneta to choose books from the library Bartleby & Co ; if we do not find it, you can swim and eat fish in a small restaurant.
- It makes you want to read also the first novel by Antoni Casas Ros Theorem Almodovar (Gallimard, 2008) and his collection of short stories, romantic Death (Gallimard , 2009).

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What books want

" Crossing books in the silence was to me an amazing experience. I felt each author, each text, a completely organic way. The books had a direct effect on my whole being and from time to time, I had to change places. A volume called to come on the table so that the reader finds the day. Another wanted to return to the shelves, melt into the anonymous mass. Some authors shouted, no longer stand in alphabetical order, they clearly wanted to escape a certain inevitability of the neighborhood and said loud and clear. It was enough to be listening to books to understand that nothing could impose. A book is a living organism with its needs, dreams, his claims. And too often, bookstores and libraries looked like death houses crammed beings debilitated. Incidentally, I took a small volume of Reinaldo Arenas: Arturo, the brightest star . He demanded to be read this morning in the quiet, the smell of coffee, the laughter of children. "

Antoni Casas Ros, Enigma (Gallimard, 2009)