All lives Veronica Ovaldé "I like things that look tart but are poisonous, actually. "
She said this with a quiet smile and heard. She has cat eyes that would not have displeased Baudelaire, the word vivacity appears to have been created for her. One senses that she would have ended on a pyre in the Middle Ages. Too feminine, too upright, you see right away that she is a witch ...
But do not waste your time looking where she stashed her wand. It is in his style, his wand and the time to discover you made, I warn you, bewitched, and you run to your bookstore to buy all his novels, already missing, but how there are only six? ... A month ago, I did not know that name so now I know now I read where it leads me, and as you say it rarely happens with the writers. Look, I do not like science fiction, but tomorrow if she wrote a novel that happens to Pluto, I devour like the others. Because I know that even on Pluto in 5028, I find the vamps clueless, girls melancholy, poisonous ogres, knights patients. And I devour every word, every image. There are writers like that - oh, not much - that you catch in the first sentence and you delight to the last. Veronica
Ovaldé and I, we have a common point. We fell in Chandler's novels a very tender age, and found him through the magic of images, comparisons brilliant. They noted in a book. And of course there's Chandler Ovaldé. We were talking about pictures? Enjoy the power thereof:
"A shadow saw the faces of those who lost someone. The shadow of a vine. It grows and unwittingly, when they think nobody is watching, she bathes traits of absence of gravity and bemusement. It is a demon who lives discreet in their faces. He hides whenever anyone looks at him. "
(And my heart clear)
Yes, there is something in Véronique Ovaldé the nonchalance of fierce humor and melancholy of noir, a taste for women broken in red robes, with vertiginous heels and hair askew. A taste for the world and the margin of the shadow, that which distinguishes only if one has eyes of a cat. In his novels, small girls rarely attend school, they stand by themselves, sometimes they grow up too fast or it's just their body but they have the resource. There Lili in Men in general I like a lot , helpless little girl in a body of a teenager who lives with her little brother, cooped up in an apartment bunker by a tyrannical father and nazis since their mother is dead.
She hesitates between suicide (it missed) and survival, she is looking for a charming prince, even if it is not really one, even if it's face tattooed big manatee that lives to the floor above and that his love is not innocent:
"I grabbed the broom, the ceiling cracked in the kitchen and waited Yoïm descend, I thought, it must be that someone one saves us. I was fourteen, and I repeated it Somebody save us. I was fourteen, and it had seemed endless fourteen years. "
There's also the little Rose dislodge the animal , sublime love this mother with a mysterious past who one day disappears, leaving her alone with a mountain of issues, grief and abyssal rabbits :
"I took the disappearance of mom in my hands, I made a ball very tight, I swallowed so that the enemy can not find it - it will open up into two - and I asked my father, you're busy rabbits at least. Not putting in that "at least" the reproach that he could perceive (it, did you let her go, I hope instead that you have not abandoned rabbits, art thou so careless) but punctuating just my sentence to balance better. "
novelist loves both girls that she lets hop into his brain, take their ease, install their imagination, their ability to decipher secret agents the world of adults encrypted with a shoestring.
In each of the novels of Veronique Ovaldé, particularly in What I know Vera Candida his latest novel, already encased in prices, women have an exciting destiny, bristling with splinters and injuries bright.
It is not easy being a woman, the cards are distributed unevenly and the world bitter and sharp when it is so easily reduced to an object of desire. They argue heeled high on broken glass, passionately love their children away from their body while they were kissing, deep seal their secrets, are fleeing in illness or death when the resistance is no longer possible. They are mothers of their daughters and daughters of their mother, heiress of a love mixed neuroses that seem much cursing, they flee their place of origin to cut sick branch of the tree which bore, find shelter which are not. Thus, Candida Vera comes from a line of hookers and absent fathers, spawning shameful, spineless and brutal, and she fled to the island fifteen years and his legacy Vatapuna poisoned. In his belly, a little girl without a father he is to save the family repetition. She is tenacious, Vera Candida. Desperate, like all heroines Veronica Ovaldé, fragile and attracted by the possibility of a vacuum, but as strong and warlike, ready to raise an Amazon destiny nine. And as Rose in dislodge the animal as Irina in my heart And transparent on his perilous journey, she found a knight.
Knights of Ovaldé sometimes raised in a trailer with a mother intrusive, they dream is to rescue a beautiful young girl lost in a snowstorm. If they wish to tender soul and "make amends for all those who behave like bastards" , they are not stupid and feel the passion of the rescue is not entirely pure:
"Lancelot knew he was especially attracted by the poor unfortunate girl's special pieces, and that it had to do with his own mother. This kind of determinism plunged into great turmoil. He said, I'm magnetized by the pretty girls broken. And he felt a mixture of pride and disgust which left him breathless - like when you save someone from drowning and that she steals his wallet by reducing it to the bank. "
( And my heart transparent )
However, their patient love, tireless, opens a path to happiness unexpected heart and please the body, to the sweetness of a possible reconciliation with oneself and with the life, a lull in the storm raging behind the flaps. A pause, a breath to survive the terror of losing loved ones:
"The smell of Monica Rose was upset Vera Candida. She sat beside her daughter and plunged her face in her hair. They smelled of salt and iodine, wind, and something more subterranean mammal, such as sweat a tiny rodent or a small wolf. Vera Candida always said, How shall I do when I am a very old woman, I see no more, I try to remember that smell. She tried to register as on clay cylinders feelings related to her daughter's hand early in his, how Monica Rose clutched her neck with her arms as thin as reeds, she clutched clutched by putting all his tiny force, and it was unthinkable not to be two one day, it was so unfair that it seemed impossible. "
Well, I hope you feel like you have given to bewitch your turn. For Christmas, I think I could not think of better gift.
soon.
Gaëlle Nohant