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A Trick of Fate [2001]
Partie du recueil: Talking bodies (Talonbooks, 2001)
Original
Résumé The everyday existence of a man is suddenly thrown off kilter while he is eating
a chocolate eclair. At once anxious and comical, he recounts the horrifying
and absurd series of events that led to the eventual loss of all his body parts. Extrait « LEO : […] And then the desire | to sink deeper into horror | rose up in my mouth | that wet deserted | hole | where my tongue was hovering | I had to see it | even stick my fingers in it | as if to go one better than the squalid fate | that had prepared me on the sly for | this waking nightmare » Revue de presse « Sharp, full of imagery, logical and deliberately long-winded, A Trick of Fate rings like a parody of a conference on Freud or a Kafka short story sent up by a comic. » Alain Pontaut, Le Devoir, November 15, 1988 |
