Yann Suty
Yann Suty est né en 1978 dans le Nord. Il travaille à Paris dans la publicité en tant que concepteur-rédacteur et pour un journal en tant que titreur. Les Champs de Paris est son deuxième roman.
Cubes
Auteur
Parution :
19/08/2009
Collection :
La Bleue
“The Duke was my childhood hero. He was one of our favourite characters, Alexis’s and mine, in our adventures. Oh, the different lives we made him live! The different epochs we made him belong to! He could become a king, a president or a general, and we were faithful knights at his service or spies on a top secret mission, trying to outwit plots against him. If only he knew how many times we saved his life!”
Now a new story begins to evolve around the Duke, when Alexis and the narrator notice that mysterious glass cubes have appeared in the millionaire neighbour’s garden - a story that is no longer just fantasy but real, and inexplicable to the two children.
While Alexis moves out shortly afterwards, the narrator continues to harbour this memory, obsessed with it. A loner as an adolescent and then an adult focused solely on his work, he later meets up with Alexis and his life begins to blossom: first around his childhood friend, then around Erena, his wife, and finally around the Duke. He becomes one of the Duke’s closest collaborators while his own questions remain just as pressing, fuelled by the numerous cubic figures he comes across during the course of his life.
But haven’t they always been there, particularly at the most important moments in his life?
And surely it is his fate to reassess everything from these subtly different, underlying points of view that brought him to where he is now?
Cubes has the powerful momentum of a thriller and the depth of a traditional novel. In these pages life, love and death and not merely questions to which fiction tries to supply elements of an answer. The reader emerges unsettled, or even ruffled, from Yann Suty’s world.
Yann Suty was born in 1978 in northern France. He lives in Paris and works as an advertising copywriter and as a leader-writer for a newspaper. Cubes is his first novel.
Now a new story begins to evolve around the Duke, when Alexis and the narrator notice that mysterious glass cubes have appeared in the millionaire neighbour’s garden - a story that is no longer just fantasy but real, and inexplicable to the two children.
While Alexis moves out shortly afterwards, the narrator continues to harbour this memory, obsessed with it. A loner as an adolescent and then an adult focused solely on his work, he later meets up with Alexis and his life begins to blossom: first around his childhood friend, then around Erena, his wife, and finally around the Duke. He becomes one of the Duke’s closest collaborators while his own questions remain just as pressing, fuelled by the numerous cubic figures he comes across during the course of his life.
But haven’t they always been there, particularly at the most important moments in his life?
And surely it is his fate to reassess everything from these subtly different, underlying points of view that brought him to where he is now?
Cubes has the powerful momentum of a thriller and the depth of a traditional novel. In these pages life, love and death and not merely questions to which fiction tries to supply elements of an answer. The reader emerges unsettled, or even ruffled, from Yann Suty’s world.
Yann Suty was born in 1978 in northern France. He lives in Paris and works as an advertising copywriter and as a leader-writer for a newspaper. Cubes is his first novel.
« J’ai passé mon enfance à entendre des histoires le concernant. Tout le monde ici en avait une à raconter sur ce voisin pas comme les autres qui effectuait des tours du monde à bord d’improbables machines dont il avait lui-même conçu les plans, qui séjournait en orbite autour de la Terre, concourait au record du monde de plongée en apnée ou de vitesse en voiture… Le Duke a été le héros de mon enfance. Avec Alexis, nous en faisions l’un des personnages favoris de nos aventures. Combien de vies lui avons-nous fait vivre ! À combien d’épopées l’avons-nous fait participer ! Il devenait un roi, un président ou un général, et nous, fidèles chevaliers à son service, espions en mission top secrète, nous tentions de déjouer les complots qui le visaient. S’il savait combien de fois nous lui avons sauvé la vie ! »
Et une nouvelle histoire va se construire autour du Duke, quand le narrateur et Alexis aperçoivent un jour de mystérieux cubes en verre dans le jardin de ce voisin milliardaire, une histoire non plus seulement fantasmée mais réelle, et inexplicable pour les deux enfants.
Alors qu’Alexis doit déménager peu après, le narrateur porte seul ce souvenir qui l’obsède. Adolescent solitaire puis adulte centré uniquement sur son travail, il retrouve Alexis et sa vie s’épanouit autour de son ami d’enfance, puis d’Erena, sa femme, et finalement du Duke dont il va devenir un des plus proches collaborateurs alors que ses interrogations sont toujours restées aussi présentes, entretenues par les multiples figures de cubes qu’il croise au cours de sa vie.
Mais n’ont-ils pas été là plus particulièrement aux moments les plus importants de son existence?
Et sa destinée n’est-elle pas à reconsidérer du point de vue de ces orientations sous-jacentes, et qui l’auraient guidé jusqu’ici ?
304 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234062290
Prix :
22.00 €
