Nicolas Grondin:
BEES AND THE BOURDON
Yesterday at 15:17
Should we envy the American authors that breath, the sense of space which they use to pretend to embrace the world in the most innocuous of their romance, as if our world was theirs? Should they let this arrogant jerk? As I already have written (1), some French authors begin to inhibitions, to consider "their" places such as universal as the last corn lost Minnesota, William Lawrence, Frank Thilliez Others ... now include in their universe, the dimensions of a globalized earth, among them we may mention, opposite each other, Dany Laferriere and Pierre Bordage ...
Deisis The Record, Patrick of Friberg,
Le Castor Astral, Momentum thriller 2009, 19 €.
All that to say that Patrick Friberg is one of those who embrace the world of a pen without bother of our literary affectations timid "goncourables" who suspect their navel universality. Without hesitation, he throws his characters into an adventure of scientific espionage excavated, documented between fields of the Beauce, the shores of the Black Sea, some tourist areas of Saint Petersburg and the Sahelian plains of Sudan. And what characters! A former director of the DGSE late, resourceful, and discreet and efficient right hand man - armed, arm - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin oppose ... sorry, Balchin, president of Russia, and his unscrupulous nervi Igor ( 2).
The company is large and this first volume of the twelve planned - yes, you read correctly! - Explores with chilling accuracy the dangers of genetic modification ... Oh, not just those that oversimplify - Media oblige - Jose Bove and the acolytes, no, those whose honeyed Hell is paved. One suspects that if science or witchcraft apprentice, managed to find a solution to the global food crisis, the stakes of this discovery would soon put on the teeth all the thugs on the planet, not to organize a broadcast wider and more equitable ...
So the paris posed on the green economy World elusive until a player comes to this table: Mother Nature and her sense of humor. This time she takes the form of a mischievous bee a miraculous corn maddened to the point of becoming a ruthless predator ... but it would not count on the bees, which need I remind, are male bees in the And fairy tales ... "The Deisis File" is not an account for children, but rather the fable black, lucid, a future glimpsed through the window of an underground world, that of "Mulholland Falls" who make and unmake what intellectuals call geopolitics, by dint of murders and accidents timely, innocent pawns and dirty tricks.
And certainly, Patrick Friberg is well informed on many issues - contemporary Russia, in particular, and its rival factions vying for pieces of empire - and still believed I did not write any and retain much below the elbow. He puts his plot as his beloved bees, by dint of cells, build their hives: with patience, fortitude and sense of inexorable narrow down barriers of gender, since agents crafty of our modernity, flies and cockroaches in the twenty-first century, they have not read John Le Carre.
fear lest they read Patrick Friberg, they could be inspired and, as the Apis Florea bees dwarf Deisis folder, make us pay for our inattention. Only
outstanding issues: what 's next? And in which editor, since the only place Castor astral perhaps not the bold author of a too ambitious for him?
(1) "Mako and generation without complex": http://www.critique-livre.
(2) What will make readers smile Pratchett. (See in "My Articles" Terry Pratchett, attempted mapping a universe ...)
Eulogy to a shoe ... it will really seen it all! 