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    612-822-4611

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Je Suis Pour CE Qui Aide a Traverser La Nuit

Je Suis Pour CE Qui Aide a Traverser La Nuit

Viscogliosi, Fabio

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234063744
ISBN13: 9782234063747
Publisher: Stock
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
I'm in Favour of Anything that Helps Us Get through the Night is a multi-facetted novel, a kaleidoscope which accumulates small touches to build up a picture of a forty-year-old man living in France. The son of Italian immigrants, he is as much a child of rock and roll as of Magritte or Laurel and Hardy. In the great sensory catalogue that is his novel a succession of texts with intriguing names Fabio Viscogliosi tenderly gathers together the people who have meant something to him and opened up his mind to the world: did you know Picasso was fascinated by the fragile delicacy of bats? That Buster Keaton wore shoes much bigger than his feet? That Georges Simenon hoped his ashes would be put into a beautiful, bright red urn? Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Alfred Hitchcock, Eddie Cochran... so many famous names all inviting themselves into the author's own world, just passing through but leaving behind their impenetrable mysteries or their unique behaviour and attitudes.
What makes Fabio Viscogliosi's so endearing is the way he also evokes his childhood and his parents whom, we learn, met a violent death one spring morning. His mother but more particularly his father whom he would give a hand with building jobs, putting in a water-heater, securing a gate, unblocking a toilet or soldering pipe-work, and with whom he had a strong bond of mutual understanding. Fabio Viscogliosi's writing lends as much power and beauty to the work of an Italian plumber as a great cinematographer or renowned painter would.
This book is also shot through with the impact of death and the weight of loss, balancing between humour and melancholy. Questioning the absurd, the strength of connections and the nature of happiness, Fabio Viscogliosi's novel is made up of little everyday things and tiny telling details that always show the other side of the coin. This gives the reader a central role within the text, because I'm in Favour of Anything that Helps Us Get through the Night is about us, told in well chosen words and a delicate style full of propriety, of our own journey, our days and our nights.

Fabio Viscogliosi was born in 1965 to Italian parents. He lives in France. I'm in Favour of Anything that Helps Us Get through the Night is his first novel. He is also a musician and illustrator.

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