A more subtle, accurate and quietly told novel, which creates a highly idiosyncratic voltage. “Lean on me” is the first book in the 58-year-old Frenchman, Serge Joncour, which was published in German. The Original “Repose-toi sur moi” modeled on the German title sounds like a consolation to my Soul. That’s the point sometimes, but above all to the encounter of two people from completely different worlds. Although you share your Paris address, but the loner Ludovic lives in the rundown behind the house, Aurore and her family in the luxurious front house.
With its massive body, the giant of a man, Ludovic other fill quickly once fear. The taciturn farmer’s son from the South West had left after the death of his girlfriend, the family farm of his sister and his brother-in-law, and was broken up into the Unknown. In Paris, he has as a debt collector found a new one, but solitary existence. Actually, he can’t stand life in the big city and withdraws after the work is done, he can also be merciful, in his Hermitage.
The fashion designer Aurore from the front of the house has a large footprint. She runs her own Label, but is from your business partners betrayed to the company’s own plans Her husband, an American who juggles with millions and is more in the plane or on the Smartphone than in His. He gives Aurore security, but it lacks empathy.
Coveted by the elegant Parisian woman
Because in the backyard croaking ravens are up to mischief, comes Aurore in contact with Ludovic, she’s so far evaded always. The man for the Practical solves the Problem, and in consequence of emotions, the surprise, both equally arise between the unequal neighbours all of a sudden.
As it would only be a dream, the awkward Ludovic of a chic and beautiful Parisian desires, entrusted to him their Worries, and their way of life, but nothing connects. In the case of this bear of a man, who looks to “mineral, of course, rough around the edges,” says Aurore something you never knew before: a sense of security.
your relationship makes you both scared, so you play cat and mouse with each other. As Aurore may call then Ludovic, a defaulting lender, a threat build, the ratio of dangerous dimensions, the novel gets an extra rotation.
In the Milieu of the indebted Proletariat
A love story full of obstacles, with an uncertain outcome, even though the last reason seems to prevail. As Serge Joncour told alternately from the appearance of Aurore, and, Ludovic, and in the social circumstances of embedding, in which both seeds in a different kind of Association, is a masterpiece. Only, as the author of Louis describes difficult everyday work in the Milieu of the indebted Proletariat, creates intensity. With a tight, fine words, he is also a wonderful language of love and eroticism. You are the vehicle for a process that pulls the protagonist out of their reality, and deeply insecure. For recognition of his self in a totally contrasting Otherwise.
The few Places where Joncour short in a somewhat superficial Philosophizing device, forgives him. Because 2016 with the Prix Interallié indoor and by the magazine Lire to the “novel of the year” gekürtes work discussed in precise clarity, the rift between town and country, the busy France. And it sings the song of the mindfulness — with all of its enchanting and disturbing tones.
Serge Joncour: lean on me. Roman. From the French of Paul to Sourzac. Secession, Berlin 2019. 367 p., CA. 32 Fr.
Created: 14.11.2019, 15:55 PM
