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Kein Wort Mehr über Liebe: Roman (2011)

by Hervé Le Tellier(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3423248637 (ISBN13: 9783423248631)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.

review 1: This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time. The basic story is that there are two couples, so four adults. In both cases, the woman in the new couples is already married-- one couple will make it to the end of the novel, and one will break up.Giving that bare bones description doesn't really tell you why this was great: instead, it's first Le Tellier's sentences, which are beautifully clear, simple, but impossibly rich. It's like there's no sleight of hand, but lots of real magic. Then, the characters are funny and interesting and well-drawn: we've got two psychoanalysts, a novelist, and a lawyer, and this is France, so they are all cultured and complicated and pretty posh, in their experiences and their lives.Then there's the structure-- lots and lot... mores of short chapters which read quickly, but these quick cuts incise the surface of these characters so quickly. There's no lead-in or dancing around, just the good stuff.There are other grace notes, too-- there's some handwaving (maybe a little sleight of hand, then) about the book the novelist is writing, which of course is this novel, and his insanely complicated scheme for the chapters in his/ this novel-- characters determined by the tiles in a famous match of Abyssinian dominoes. This is where it helps to know that Le Tellier is part of OULIPO, though the tone here is very different than you usually think of when you imagine experimental lit; the experimenter here is very humble, more student than professor, and he's incredibly perceptive.
review 2: This book was so clever. It took a bit of concentration initially, as the characters are only introduced through their actions/interactions, not through any sort of narrative by the author. But once you get into it, the characters seem more real, more human, because you have gotten to know them the same way that you get to know people in real life.Highly enjoyable. Engaging. I love French culture...as an American reading the novel in translation, the French aspect shines through beautifully. less

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