New Book in French....similar to McCann saga?

Dreyfus has changed the story to a French family holidaying in Italy. One of their children, Madec, has an accident in the apartment and dies. The mother finds the body and hides it. The parents are doctors from Normandy going by the name of Macand apparently.



«Dans un registre moins tragique, Arthur Dreyfus s'attelle, avec Belle famille, à raconter ce qu'un fait divers dévoile de la société où il se produit en s'emparant d'une histoire récente et retentissante, celle de Maddie McCann, petite Anglaise de 4 ans disparue de son lit, pendant un séjour au Portugal, alors que ses parents dînaient à quelques dizaines de mètres. Arthur Dreyfus prend bien sûr soin d'invoquer en préambule "les droits imprescriptibles de l'imagination" chers à Aragon et transpose l'histoire dans une famille française passant ses vacances en Italie. Il ne dissimule pourtant rien de son inspiration en appelant son personnage d'enfant Madec, par exemple. Mais il laisse de côté la dimension mystérieuse de la disparition : page 80, Madec meurt d'un stupide accident domestique et sa mère, trouvant son corps, décide de le faire disparaître. Le véritable sujet de l'auteur, avec cette histoire où nul n'est réellement coupable, c'est la manière dont naît un fait divers hypermédiatique. C'est la frénésie qui s'empare des journalistes, des politiques, de tous ceux qui peuvent tirer profit d'une manière ou d'une autre d'une histoire comme celle-là. Emouvante, forcément émouvante, puisqu'il s'agit de la disparition d'un enfant. La distance qu'introduit la fiction par rapport aux faits réels tels qu'ils sont connus permet de prendre de la hauteur, de rejeter le tire-larmes au profit de la réflexion. En puisant aux sources d'un cas aussi sensible pour livrer un roman grinçant et souvent drôle, le jeune Arthur Dreyfus, 24 ans, fait un pari gonflé, et le remporte. La lecture de Belle famille pousse à s'interroger sur ce qui nous passionne tant dans la mise en récit de faits divers à sensations. Dans son bel essai Un jour, le crime (Gallimard, 2011), le psychanalyste et écrivain Jean-Bertrand Pontalis expliquait : le goût de ces histoires où se satisfont nos pulsions violentes rappelle notre nature de "criminels innocents".» http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/20 ... _3260.html

This one is on Elle's top ten "must read" list. It's by Arthur Dreyfus and is called "Belle Famille" (Beautiful Family).

http://www.elle.fr/Loisirs/Livres/Dossiers/Top10/Livres-le-top-ten-du-ELLE33/Belle-famille-d-Arthur-Dreyfus-Gallimard

I haven't read it for myself yet, but I am told it is about a faked abduction. The parents are both doctors and the child is called Madec Macand.

snap!

In a less tragic register, Arthur Dreyfus gets down, with Nice family, to tell what a news item reveals of the society where it occurs by taking over a recent and resounding history, that of MADDIE MCCANN, small 4-year-old Englishwoman disappeared from its bed, during a stay in Portugal, while his parents had dinner in some dozens metres. Arthur Dreyfus certainly looks after to invoke in preamble " the imprescriptible rights of imagination " dear to Aragon and transposes history into a French family crossing his vacation in Italy. It hides nothing of its inspiration however by calling his figure of child Madec, for instance. But it gives up the mysterious dimension of disappearing: page 80, Madec dies from a stupid accident in the home and his mother, finding his body, decides to remove it. The true subject of the author, with this history where no one is indeed guilty, it is the way a hypermedia news item is born. It is the frenzy which takes over journalists, policies, all those who can take advantage in either way from a history as that one. Emotional, out of necessity emotional, since it is about the disappearing of a child. Distance that the invention in comparison with real facts introduces such as they are known allows to take the height, to reject flight-tear to the advantage of cogitation. By scooping out from the sources of such a sensitive case to deliver a squeaky and often odd novel, the young person Arthur Dreyfus, 24 years old, made a filled bet, and carries it off. The reading of Nice family encourages to wonder about what enthralls us so much in the bet in tale of news items with feelings. In his nice try A day, crime (Gallimard, on 2011), the psychoanalyst and writer Jean-Bertrand Pontalis explained: the taste of these stories where are satisfied our violent impulses reminds of our nature of " innocent criminals ". » http: // www.lemonde.fr / book / article / 20... _3260.html

Haha ann, great minds and all that! Maybe a kind mod can merge?

ann_chovey wrote:snap!

In a less tragic register, Arthur Dreyfus gets down, with Nice family, to tell what a news item reveals of the society where it occurs by taking over a recent and resounding history, that of MADDIE MCCANN, small 4-year-old Englishwoman disappeared from its bed, during a stay in Portugal, while his parents had dinner in some dozens metres. Arthur Dreyfus certainly looks after to invoke in preamble " the imprescriptible rights of imagination " dear to Aragon and transposes history into a French family crossing his vacation in Italy. It hides nothing of its inspiration however by calling his figure of child Madec, for instance. But it gives up the mysterious dimension of disappearing: page 80, Madec dies from a stupid accident in the home and his mother, finding his body, decides to remove it.

Uh oh, how unhelpful..... It's only day 6 of 2012 but l think it's going to be an annus horribilus for the Mcs.

Cue the Lawyers!

Excellent!

I'm not familiar with this particular author, but I'm warming to him already ...


Are the parents called Kaput and Gerbil Macand, perchance?

The critics are good, the young writter talentuous and Gallimard is the best known edition. A success most probably with the Mccann story seen with the same eyes than us, "nuttters" on the net. Here is the French summary. Could Anna translate please. Very interesting:


"Enfant étrange, taciturne et solitaire, Madec vit à Granville, avec ses parents et ses deux frères. Alors que la famille est en vacances en Toscane avec un couple d’amis, Madec manque de se noyer dans la piscine. Il est sauvé par un Anglais, Ron Murdoch, un repris de justice qui a purgé une longue peine en Angleterre pour pédophilie. Un soir, tandis que ses parents dînent au restaurant avec leurs amis, Madec se tue accidentellement dans la cuisine du bungalow. Revenant à l’improviste au milieu du repas, Laurence trouve son fils mort sur le carrelage. Sans réfléchir, elle emporte le corps et le fait disparaître, avant de rejoindre les autres au restaurant comme si de rien n’était. De retour au bungalow, la disparition déclenche une alerte générale. Battues, recherches, enquête policière, paparazzi : en quelques jours, les parents deviennent des vedettes. L’oncle de l’enfant orchestre une campagne de presse qui émeut le monde entier - jusqu’au pape Jean- Paul II. Diligentée par un inspecteur italien, l’enquête est suivie en haut lieu par la France. L’Anglais Murdoch est vite accusé d’avoir enlevé et tué Madec. Son passé plaide contre lui… S’inspirant d’un fait divers récent, Arthur Dreyfus décrit avec une ironie souvent cruelle cette famille figée dans son silence et ses lâchetés, et avec une poésie prenante la solitude de Madec. Progressivement s’installe un climat proche de la folie, dans lequel la mère, énigmatique et silencieuse, joue un rôle central. On comprendra peu à peu pourquoi elle cache la mort de son enfant…"

almostgothic wrote:

Are the parents called Kaput and Gerbil Macand, perchance?

You owe me a keyboard AG, this one's got beer spat all over it.

google translation:

Child strange, silent and solitary, Madec lives in Granville with his parents and two brothers. While the family is on holiday in Tuscany with a couple of friends, Madec nearly drowned in the pool. He is saved by an Englishman, Ron Murdoch, an ex-convict who served a long sentence in England for pedophilia. One night, while her parents dined at a restaurant with friends, Madec accidentally kills himself in the kitchen of the bungalow. Returning to the blue in the middle of the meal, Laurence found his son dead on the floor. Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened. Back in the bungalow, the disappearance triggers a general alarm. Battered, research, police investigation, paparazzi: a few days, parents are becoming stars. the uncle of the child orchestrates a media campaign that moves the world - until Pope John Paul II. expedited Italian by an inspector, the survey is followed up by France instead. the English quickly Murdoch accused of kidnapping and killing Madec. His past plead against him ... Inspired by a recent news story, Arthur Dreyfus describes an often cruel irony that family frozen in silence and cowardice, and with the solitude of poetry involved Madec. gradually moved closer to a climate of insanity, in which the mother, enigmatic and silent, plays a central role . it will be understood why she gradually hides the death of her child ... "

frencheuropean wrote:The critics are good, the young writter talentuous and Gallimard is the best known edition. A success most probably with the Mccann story seen with the same eyes than us, "nuttters" on the net. Here is the French summary. Could Anna translate please. Very interesting:


"Enfant étrange, taciturne et solitaire, Madec vit à Granville, avec ses parents et ses deux frères. Alors que la famille est en vacances en Toscane avec un couple d’amis, Madec manque de se noyer dans la piscine. Il est sauvé par un Anglais, Ron Murdoch, un repris de justice qui a purgé une longue peine en Angleterre pour pédophilie. Un soir, tandis que ses parents dînent au restaurant avec leurs amis, Madec se tue accidentellement dans la cuisine du bungalow. Revenant à l’improviste au milieu du repas, Laurence trouve son fils mort sur le carrelage. Sans réfléchir, elle emporte le corps et le fait disparaître, avant de rejoindre les autres au restaurant comme si de rien n’était. De retour au bungalow, la disparition déclenche une alerte générale. Battues, recherches, enquête policière, paparazzi : en quelques jours, les parents deviennent des vedettes. L’oncle de l’enfant orchestre une campagne de presse qui émeut le monde entier - jusqu’au pape Jean- Paul II. Diligentée par un inspecteur italien, l’enquête est suivie en haut lieu par la France. L’Anglais Murdoch est vite accusé d’avoir enlevé et tué Madec. Son passé plaide contre lui… S’inspirant d’un fait divers récent, Arthur Dreyfus décrit avec une ironie souvent cruelle cette famille figée dans son silence et ses lâchetés, et avec une poésie prenante la solitude de Madec. Progressivement s’installe un climat proche de la folie, dans lequel la mère, énigmatique et silencieuse, joue un rôle central. On comprendra peu à peu pourquoi elle cache la mort de son enfant…"

Hahahhahahhaaaaahahhhaaaaaaa


Carter Ruck gonna be busy in the New Year

margaret wrote:

almostgothic wrote:

Are the parents called Kaput and Gerbil Macand, perchance?

You owe me a keyboard AG, this one's got beer spat all over it.

Oops - sorry margaret!

The book is tomorrow in the libraries.
In the magazine "Elle" top ten, with this enthousiastic comment:



« Belle famille », d’Arthur Dreyfus (Gallimard). Ce jeune homme a un chic fou ! Son deuxième roman transforme un fait-divers en bijou littéraire dont on parlera beaucoup cette année."


It will be very difficult for Carter Ruck to suppress this book!

almostgothic wrote:Excellent!

I'm not familiar with this particular author, but I'm warming to him already ...


Are the parents called Kaput and Gerbil Macand, perchance?

And their PR Person?

Claret Meetshell ?

Do they have lawyers called Cartier Rouchet ?

And their nemesis would be Pierre J Amoral

It is not one of Rosiepops' $695 vanity publishers, neither. It's published by Editions Gallimard, they're one of the biggest publishers in France and are very well respected. I am also assuming that they have a team of in-house lawyers who felt it was safe to publish this "novel".

at all of you!

I can imagine there will be steam coming out of Le Routhley Tours tonight.

margaret wrote: at all of you!

I can imagine there will be steam coming out of Le Routhley Tours tonight.

Yep. Mister Gerry is probably shouting MERDE! even as we speak!

Kate .............. "Cette bewk est trés mal"

....lou-de-crous

Seriously, how long do you think that Amazon will continue to sell it, before getting Carter Rucked? Like Pat Brown was? Of course, Gallimard might have something to say about it, and Amazon might not want to pi55 them off....

- what's French for 'Carry On Doctors?

Adam Tudor from CR (cunningly disguised as Officer Crabtree) is hurriedly dispatched by plane to France to harangue the latest offending author.

"It's another bewk" he sighs.
"I was in the lavatory when I got the command. There is obviously no p*ss for the wicked."