The novelist is awarded for ” Babylon “, a book light and funny, published by Flammarion. Aude Lancelin receives the prize test for ” The free World “.
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The Renaudot literary prize for the novel went to Yasmina Reza’s for Babylon (Flammarion). As the world of the Goncourt Sweet Song, Leïla Slimani (Gallimard), may seem dark – but, delightfully, that of Babylon, in spite of the darkness of the events that occur there, is bright and funny. Not less profound, on the contrary, but existentially funny, like the rest of his work : the Renaudot’s novel reward it as the author confirmed, that the theatre in particular regularly represents France abroad.
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Placed under the sign of the documentary photographs of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, in which Reza sees ” immense yesterday of our lives “, Babylon, his third novel, has for a heroine a lady a little depressed and its neighbourhood. This is Elisabeth Jauze, 62 years of age, “engineering Patents” at the Pasteur Institute. This kind of detail “mediocre” punctuates ironically all of the text, devoted as it is to defend human life against the attacks of the insignificance, the wounds of loneliness, the wear and tear of time. Has this lady comes back the initiative and, first of all, the idea of this ” sauterie organized in a moment of optimism “, a birthday party, which will lead to a drama that turns into a police investigation and satirical. It is through his voice that Reza deploys his gaze so sensitive on the motions of the minute, the mundane objects, ordinary feelings which picks up ” the s trength of a life lowercase ” : the efforts of a lady to stay until the end as presentable as possible, the ” presentiment damning of Sundays “, the flood of images forgotten…
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A gravity-mocking
At the time of the tragedy, so it is Elizabeth who takes things in hand (” No panic. I found myself ultragonflée “), it also stabilizes them by his laugh deep, his gravity-mocking, it so that gives the world a form of permanence. At the beginning of the novel, while the small party struggling to take the guests flock in front of the window to see the snowflakes. the ” men have said, it’s not going to hold it, the women have said, it’s going to take “, tells Elisabeth. A hundred pages later, a lawyer turns to her at the police station : ” Everything depends on your good faith and your ability to convince. Your story holds. “
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This is a pretty good definition of the art of Reza, who declared the ” World of Books “, at the output of Babylon : ” I love this word, “keep”. It has several meanings in French. The strength, consistency, but also the stamina, the courage. As there was no certainty of meaning, it is not dissatisfied to hold something. At the bottom, most of our actions are to restore a little balance. “
Aude Lancelin, meanwhile, ex-deputy director of Obs, of which she was sacked in may, was awarded the Renaudot essay for The free World (The links that release, 240 p, € 19), in which it settles accounts with the magazine. The book was introduced by the jurors in the list of tests between their second and third selections.
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