Before resistance, the previous novel of Philip Sendek, also published in Zaporozhian , (2009) was already the political drama and psychological thriller. An imaginary country beyond the Rhine, assists and powerless in its "reunification" by outright annexation. Its borders are crossed and erased tomorrow militarily by Tyrant neighbor, "inbred" intends to resume its historic property. Anarchist factions, "Signers" anti-fascist, ultra-nationalists and businessmen feel their time comes, or rather their last hour. And personal destinies, intersecting, Full Throttle and damaged, gaping. The nostalgic, reactionary or resistant, yield to the eroticism of chaos.
With week of disability, (the Zaporozhian, October 2010), Philippe Sendek describes the insertion of the disabled through work as a business without hindrance, with sharp humor and great detail managerial, labor etc.. The grub of the turbine in all his blandness.
the heart of the charity as any other social activity, acting covertly hidden power: the Covenant entered into after the Second World War between the Social Democrats with long, sharp teeth, their visionary way, which found nothing more effective to prevent the return of Nazism, but to use its methods and scientific management, materialistic, human resources. Methodical and systematic destruction of human was again put in place under the laudable motive of improving the human race, putting Although all sauces, including that of an ordinary cannibalism but quite real. Beyond the disability and rehabilitation through labor is socialism that the author of the novel we simmering there, a Social managed like a business, and he does not behave in a perfect cog: yet he must demonstrate the ability to make a profit, otherwise disappear into his basement, and to understand his agony without pain or identify rituals capitalists, honing already slicing and slicing before the feast. And offal of the damned will not deal with ungrateful, but connoisseurs of human flesh, instead, to aesthetes brutal and delicate.
A real nightmare vision, perfect cynicism and flippancy, which could be told as a joke really dark, so she presented with startling precision, almost documentary, our social reality.
few words with the author.
NOT NOT: With writing week of disability , your zest for life has he taken a shot or has it reinforced?
PHILIPPE Sendek: Writing this novel returns to find that the characters are trapped in a nightmarish sense, a social vice that crushes those who resist it. This is like going through a nightmare from which we can not ignore. Humor is the only balm soothes possible but superficially.
In fact, the appetite returns to live (the author) when his book was published and he has the opportunity to touch readers.
Moreover, the appetite for live help tell stories that are supposed to modulate it (an appetite for life)
NDN: Except distraction for me, the action of this novel is never dated. But some acronyms, like NEPA, we must situate it properly in the recent past (and French), and suddenly the scent of anticipation of your fiction is reassuring at all, and his side much less amusing farce . The horror is revealed always approached as it is sensed and is realized through the channels planned, well recognized and marked. The thirst for power, games for human vanity, its issues, sexual harassment or moral exercised in full knowledge of the facts. With few exceptions, they are granted realities, and in all cases, endorsed ... And it comes very quickly to say that pitch up to such a system would require a lucidity and energy beyond our reach. Is this your feeling? Is resistance futile?
PS: No, resistance is not futile. It is essential to the contrary. The trick is whether it is better to finish in Spartacus or Lech Walesa., a victim that have advanced or manager of a bygone era.
must be resisted by reflecting, analyzing the world, the desecration by laughter and clowning.
The world I describe could be one in which I live, after all, in our world, there are genocides, massacres and widespread violence. In the world that is mine, intelligence was less successful than violence (verbal or physical)
Say the world that I describe is similar to the word of Ionesco's "Caress a circle, it will be vicious! "
NDN: Difficult not to recognize our current despot, Nicolas Sarkozy, all-powerful figure in your novel, Totalfino, Director General of the box reintegration of the disabled through work . By its morphology, his mannerisms, his size, his side uprooted and personal mythology he has built, with its complex physical and moral, as his knowledge of the power hungry ... But when you look closer is would rather see that model on François Mitterrand. Is forcing your mind to consider that you offer him a position of choice in building the economy of the misery you describe and so much like ours?
PS: F igure sure Totalfino was inspired by a person for whom I worked, a person who has existed and I have a slightly accentuated character.
However, I do not deny at all your interpretation. Instead, it delights me. For all men of power, all men who cling to power as the Knights of the Round Table to Grail resemble both Sarkozy and Mitterrand. They range from satisfied vulgarity, meanness and aggressive appetite golds power for one, love of intrigue, manipulative coldness to another. .
I find that having the power comes back after some time trying to preserve it, even plunge the other, those who are not part of the circle in the economy Extreme Poverty you mention.
This amounts to tap on the head of him who seeks to ride on a raft adrift at sea
NDN: The game with tasty names of your characters reinforces the dark humor of the novel. The director of human resources, for example, is called Donnadieu. And then there is Luke Graindorge, Steward CFTC continually foggy. I saw this name - perhaps wrongly? - A nod to John Barleycorn (John Huck) by Jack London, his "Memoirs of a drinker." I found exactly as you practice a form of very strange thriller, in sometimes very dry, objective, which do not in any way a certain virtuosity, particularly in sensitive Before resistance, which makes me believe in his mounting Short Cuts , the Robert Altman film, with the difference that writing allows you to rotate the first and third person for the same character of past and present mingle in the same action. What are your references, your sources?
PS: My pictorial references are: A current that goes to George Grosz Brueghel passing by Ralph Steadman. In literature, as I try to tell stories and I do not dwell on little me, I find myself much more with Anglo-Saxon and French.
However, I love Franz Kafka, Bruno Schultz, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares. I work in this area a fantastic touch allows me to paint the reality is that if both can do ...
NDN: The main character week disability is hardly stellar. This is a singularly devoid of Nicolas power ... Steward, staff representative, he lives in a solitude almost complete in its box, its emotional misery turns his private life recreation voyeuristic and morbid. It digests badly, he does not think much. Its action inevitably abortion ... I'm curious to hear what inspires you the reality and the current union action, including such they just prove (wake?) on the occasion of the Pensions Act recently passed in France.
PS: What I watch is a real danger, that is to say that the stewards in the enterprise may tend to stir slippers or wind. For more weight, you sometimes engage in fighting against windmills. In my novel, the hope is that a carpet is removed under the feet of the characters. That is why it takes imagination and courage to dare when engaging in a fight against more powerful than itself.
View undue effort by the government to drop the blown rebellion.
France is a country where people still have the courage to fight against what they consider unfair. I still feel that sooner or later, the fire goes out and we go into his kennel, aware that the rope around the neck still has shrunk.
NDN: Finally, do you still many nuggets of this genre in your drawers? Or do you write? We reserve it for you next?
PS For the rest, I prepare a novel in which the national hero in a country of Eastern Europe is called upon to help re-inflate the popularity of a president, plummeting in the polls.
The important result is to try to renew, bring a whole different light continuing its path.
Summary and questions: Stéphane Prat
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