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Article: La mort de Brune.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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For the increasingly prolific Pierre Bergounioux, each slim new novel germinates from a seed secreted within its predecessor. The present narrator's experiences as a boy, studying music under the eaves of the centuries-old Hotel Labenche, elaborate on an idea from Le chevron (1996; see WLT 70:1, p. 112): in certain backwater towns of the Limousin, time has stood still. La mort de Brune is almost a disquisition on time, from the layered periods of Labenche's history to the measured beat of the narrator's piano lesson to the sudden transformation, from one term to the next, of little girls into lanky adolescents. Repetitive acts, like walking the same route with his father ...
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