In Lyon, the capital city of saplings and symbolical for the student that I summer, a publishing house publishes new talent. It moreover held shop at the last Salon du Livre in Paris. Souls writer, tenors of the edition you stare? They earn enough living with Paul Auster and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Self-publishing makes you afraid? Too confidential. Why not try your luck with editions Baudelaire ? Since 2007, they scrutinize the manuscripts, settle and reveal the unknown. Although inspired, two authors have knocked at their door. Ludovic Slate, teacher, takes its readers on a ghostly Course in Scottish castles . As for Jacqueline Kaatje, which is the pen name, she published a collection of tender and unusual News the borders of the mystery and fantasy. Two opportunities to dream, to flirt with the supernatural and legends, to trample the imagination of the writers of the shadow.
Ludovic Slate gives us his vision of Scotland, the ghosts and haunted castles. A destination for lovers of old stones and supernatural stories. Well documented, his travelogue guide our steps from Edinburgh throughout the country in the direction of clockwise. However, from the sofa, the remote discovery of these memorials, which stretch like a rosary, is tedious. For in Scotland, every corner has a castle and each building has its ghost. Suddenly, all the stories and are very similar. Simply text provides only the facts, a vision in two dimensions. To give relief, of emotion, authenticity, you should go there. Thus, if one recognizes the author of some talent collector, it deplores the lack of narrative thread in which he is liable, more involved, would offer his confidence, his feelings. For, in the land of ghosts, all travel must be initiatory part of oneself. Accordingly, the book is didactic Slate Ludovic but not enough staff. Far from the source, it loses its power. But, as I would have liked to have him with me as fellow traveler, a few years ago, during my stay in Scotland, my honeymoon!
Among the new mysterious Kaatje Jacqueline, one of them hit the nostalgia of the castles that I am. Those who suffer from neglect or lack of maintenance, and that their owners are trying to save, by all means. Amazing coincidence, I recently made a weekend in Le Perche, a few kilometers from the imaginary castle is the setting for this novel, The Phantom of the Danseray : Towards Montmirail, it stopped raining and the Vibraye sky cleared frankly. In a turn of the narrow road they followed for some time, the mansion Danseray appeared to them, superb, right in the middle of a large sunspot. . A pianist, dancer helped her friend, as the project fit a ballet performance to raise funds to finance the renovation of the castle of his grandfather. Yet the love story behind the two artists is disrupted by the arrival of the ghost family. A simple plot but realistic, agreed to the outcome (I imagined the worst!), Where the paranormal is normal. Other stories plunge the reader into the same strange and poetic atmosphere. Far from the macabre and chilling supernatural, here is a collection of short stories that flatter the tender souls of light humor.
Fantastic literature is not good news from big publishers. Yet, to quote Charles Baudelaire, "the beautiful is always bizarre." The imaginative and lively style of many authors, most ignored, deserve more respect. Let us be vigilant so as not to miss.
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