You , Charles Benoit, ed. Noguer, 2011 returns to the fray after the turmoil of Sant Jordi. If you want to know how he passes the chronic I've done in my other blog. A summary? Exhausting and wet. But that's it. Now we just have to make returns and begin preparing the text campaign. Ains ... And who said the bookseller's life was to sit and read a novel by Jane Austen drinking tea while a cat sleeps in our legs?
And I return with a review of a short and intense novel that has given me a huge surprise. You of Charles Benoit unknown to me. This novel tells the story of Kyle Chase, a normal teenager at a point limit. Blood everywhere and the question of how I got to hang round his head. And that's what this story tells us a way to involve the reader directly in the events and will be immersed in the way of decisions taken Kyle to get to that point of no return.
I think I've said before, I'm not very fond of realistic young adult novel lineage. Let's say the high school required reading gave me a pretty skewed profile of what this type of novel was spoken. The novels I read were limited to stories of love between the familiar blue-stocking of the kind and intelligent and very attractive professor of philosophy or mathematics. Came I compulsively reading the tales of Stevenson and The Princess Bride and that I found revolting. And when they forced me to read more novels of these in the hope that I feel identified with the protagonists (the identification ... that enormous trap narrative) and I encountered only minor problems teens made great by four jets, many drugs, much died by accident, many false transcendence and much asshole loose pages. Everything sounded patronizing and I can say that all these novels are not talking about me.
and radicalized me. Nothing realistic novel for teens. I jumped to the literature considered adult and went with my beloved and my beloved fantasy science fiction. I actually had enough with my extra kilos that I crushed in the literature. I guess I missed other novels and a guide to reading something worked (and take the opportunity to recommend the excellent article realistic literature Cristina Anguita, daily companion The Tiramillas has been marked. To take your hat off .)
But time passes and we are getting older and returning to children's literature, fell into my hands realist novels. And yes, many remain unconvinced and titles continue to vex certain condescending paternalism that makes me very nervous. But, of course, not all is well. And there are novels like You reconcile me to this genre. And is that Charles Benoit has written a realistic novel that seems a mystery novel in an intelligent and knowing that the other side of the page there is an intelligent and thoughtful reader. A short novel in form, but huge at the bottom. Because it talks about many things with the wisdom of the guy who knows how to tell a story. And getting the reader to become involved as an actor in the facts and avoid the trap of getting emotional identification with the character. Or at least he failed me. Kyle Chase and I belong to different worlds, but empathize with him as a character even though he disagreed with many of his actions, see the shit and mistakes, but understanding both its choice of mute rebellion and fear of the world.
The novel is about the election. The decisions we make and take us to a point. All the "if" that arise post. It's about freedom of choice and that no choice is a choice. About family, silences teenagers, friendship, search for the group, the love that is silent to have something pure in life ... All this is explained by a strong narrative voice in a risky second person. The entire novel is a continuum that leads you novel and involves the reader in all these events leading to the blood of the first sentence of the novel. One way to tell that I found interesting, well crafted and that it coincides with the slope of reading Sorry published by Seix Barral. And Kyle is a good character. Worked, credible and alive ... something that can not be said of some other character ...
Because You is not perfect. The girl's character seems not working and the new friend I swallow hard time. I find a point of caricature, the very poor little rich boy roll. Perhaps it would lack few pages to develop some of the ideas of the novel (the pain, the relationship with family, etc..) and perhaps left too suggested some of the passages Kyle's past (which I like to insinuate and is the only reader to complete, but I leave it all in the Mist). And unfortunately, some protective gaze of the young adult, and a speech there homogenizer (all teenagers are like that ..). And that irritates me.
Anyway, You is a highly recommended novel. Short, intense, very exciting and a good mystery to unravel. Full of good scenes. My favorite for everyday may go unnoticed and two great character appears little sister. The conversation watching cartoons and you hear the conversation behind a door. Small and great moments.
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