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L'Anomalie
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DNF at page 100
It took me more than a month to fight my way to page 100. The 1st chapter was excellent, with an interesting protagonist and then the author abandoned him to other characters less and less compelling. The writing is nothing extraordinary, for sure not worthy of a literary prize. I try to read it both in original French and in Romanian so I can assure you it is not a matter of translation. The idea was interesting but after it was sifted through Oulipian* restrictions, whatever they were, not much was left.
*Herve le Tellier is the leader of Oulipo movement. As oer Wikipedia: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.
It took me more than a month to fight my way to page 100. The 1st chapter was excellent, with an interesting protagonist and then the author abandoned him to other characters less and less compelling. The writing is nothing extraordinary, for sure not worthy of a literary prize. I try to read it both in original French and in Romanian so I can assure you it is not a matter of translation. The idea was interesting but after it was sifted through Oulipian* restrictions, whatever they were, not much was left.
*Herve le Tellier is the leader of Oulipo movement. As oer Wikipedia: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.
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