Franck Thilliez, not dive worms – Liberation
We have never had too much sympathy for Ténia (aka to solitary) or for toxoplasmosis (parasitic disease). It will not arrange with A delaythe 25th novel of Franck Thilliez. That said, Bacopa MonnieriA priori a priori virtuous plant, in particular to regulate cerebral activity, does not tell us too much either, in the configuration that imagines the discreet cador of the French thriller – ten million copies sold in the clock.
It’s fuel like: nothing is never completely reassuring at Thilliez. Especially not the human and their brain, often tortured or damaged. Mental illness is at the heart ofA delay. One of the main characters is a psychiatrist, Eléonore Hourdel, who works in a unit for difficult patients (UMD). From the second chapter, a man commits suicide before his eyes. In the fourth, he was announced the arrival in his service of a delusional individual who seeks to open his belly with his fingers and who hears voices. A few pages later, Commander Franck Sharko, a favorite character of Thilliez, finds himself in front of the corpse of a skinny type with the mouth open on a funnel – he was obviously forced to ingest soda before stabbing him with around forty times by beating in terms of belly, which supposes a desire to harm particularly sharp. However, the victim is identified as the father of the psychiatrist … Information that she will invalidate. Let’s go for a puzzle that imbalances psychotic crises, paranoia, parasitology, atrocious murders, professional rivalry, spite of love until eternal revenge.
Franck Thilliez is a book per year on average, and an almost systematic cardboard. Same yield supposes a well -oiled mechanics, an efficiency in reinforced concrete. It notably involves a fairly classic renewal of thriller’s codes: rhythm of the very supported roller coaster, Cliffhangers at the shovel, chapters that conclude on a threat – « Someone had come at her home », « her cry tore the night », « he hadn’t done it with horror » -, heroes who all border on death, modus operandi Grandiloquant as suffocating a woman live in a giant cocoon.
In any case, Thilliez, 51, still treats his business and writes knowing what he is talking about. This time, he indicates in afterword having made an immersion in UMD (that of the Hospital Center of Rouvray, in Normandy). He needed « (Getting it into account by (him)-even if the fantasy of this kind of place, if what the sensations reports show us-a place of howl, punishment and pure violence corresponds to reality or not ». In return, he led writing workshops to patients. At a time when mental health and management are admitted as a social issueand while criminal irresponsibility is still debated, his novel that is beating elsewhere (the crime, autopsy scenes) holds on that side a sensitive and subtle point of view, which restores the diversity of mental illness and which recognizes as much the suffering of the sick as the difficulty in relieving it.
