(ticket issued in connection a brand new partnership between Alapage and The bibwebzine) 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
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