One moment of abandonment is a Romance published by Philippe Besson in 2005.

Presentation

The book is presented in the form of an account to the first anybody and the present of Thomas Sheppard, a fisherman of Falmouth in Cornouailles. It is thus a kind of newspaper divided into four parts.

The first gives an account of the loneliness and the overwhelming pressure of the Narrateur of return in his village lost after five years of prison; the second uses the confidence with another excluded, a grocer Pakistan board, to go back to the “fault”: the narrator was condemned for the murder by imprudence of the son of his wife at the time of a dangerous exit at sea, but affirms to him that it is only about one tragic accident. The third part uses the same process of the confidence: the interlocutress is displaced an evil seen, unmarried mother without beauty and saleswoman of newspapers, with which Thomas tells enfermement prison and prison violence. The last part is very short: it is the quiet arrival of Luke, the friend of the years of prison, which gives up woman and children to join Thomas: they are on the point of leaving elsewhere, to start again together a life, found innocence.

Comment

Philippe Besson succeeds in making the reader close to the narrator who entrusts to him by a style selected and poetic. We enter thus this world of the rare word, the gray landscape and exclusion through a course of suffering: Thomas saw a kind of christic passion which after the cold, darkness, violence and loneliness leads to the paddle of a safety.

It is a dense, sensitive and strong novel, supported by a beautiful controlled language, without effects.

Quotation

" I was born in the middle of the autumn, one day of fog, one day like another, all in all. The fog, it is there almost all the time. It recovers all, it accompanies us, it will be there until our death. It is our single certainty. This veil on our faces. This gray in our glances. These drops which bead on before our bras."

Philippe Besson - One moment of abandonment (page18) - © Editions Julliard, Paris, 2005 (right of quotation)

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