CosmoZ Dear reader,
We tried not to give into the evil villain spoiler.
But CosmoZ speaks of Wizard of Oz, it tells the story in order to explain how and why the author ... Finally, you see, what. So if it did thirty years you expect to devour this book by L. Frank Baum or see the eponymous movie where they sing "Somewhere over the rainbow ... Well, do it before reading this article.
Moreover, since reading CosmoZ , we try to invent a stronger word that "love" - is there one between "aduldorer" and "gosténérer" - then we could not s prevention, it was stronger than us, to analyze certain aspects of the text, including linking them with other books of Claro.
So if you tend to prefer virgin get any comments in a masterpiece - a bit like the beach you can not abstain from the violent pleasure of tidal wave - you can pause reading these lines and you rush with your eyes closed to your favorite bookseller and read CosmoZ right now, immediately, before the world explodes. 
CosmoZ is the fifteenth book
Claro.
CosmoZ with a capital Z final word on the turning himself into a crazy round, announcing the 496 pages of narrative vertigo, wonder and concern offered to the reader, bringing the Wizard of Oz, the starting point and writing material.
The Wizard of Oz , you remember a
? The little bored Dorothy in Kansas in the farm of his uncle and aunt, she is always accompanied by her dog Toto, enthusiastic and barking, the way a Snowy. A tornado rises, Dorothy knocks itself, absurdly refuge in his room, and tumbles into the wonderful world of Oz, one of the Munchkins - Fort quaint little creatures singing and dancing - oh! we are not in Kansas anymore, squashing passing the Wicked Witch of the East which it retrieves the magic shoes, silver (ruby in the movie with Judy Garland, was most spectacular effects in technicolor ...) It follows the yellow brick road to meet the Wizard of Oz who lives in the Emerald City and it will no doubt - said Glynda the Good Witch - to go home. En route, she meets the Scarecrow who wants a brain having both
, Man Tin, who complains of not having
heart and the Cowardly Lion, whose cowardice is a significant drawback for a cat supposed to rule the jungle ... Everyone with a mission ontological Grail they continue despite the obstacles planted by the Wicked Witch West is really upset that a minx in gingham dress has assassinated her little sister the Wicked Witch of the East and who readily recover the magic shoes ... Well, I skip the events that followed, flying monkeys and other buckets Water lethal, you know the end, vaguely deceptive, the Wizard is a charlatan, but is happy because every self-made character holds the key to his mystery. There Is No Place Like Home, buddies.
"But the legend does not know how the world ends, just as she does not know how it started. The legend knows that raising the skirt and entrust the gutter Like her intimate folds. Legend drink vermouth and shuffles the cards. It follows strangers on the street. It digs trenches that fills bone and diamonds. It will fly all the time. The legend is crazy and we must sometimes the internal force, between idea and reality, so that the shadow falls. "
2 CosmoZ . "Ogni speranza voi che Lasciate entrate! "God is not a nice dog who gives paw, God is a charlatan rather perverse way Wizard of Oz, who sends you your free will in the face while pipant some dice, anyway, it's more fun. "If the earth was only futile, it would go again! Men hollow men of little fire! For all furnaces, with books and buns! "
3 Claro tends an apple to the undertaker Dorothy, of course, breaking her braids, and these are the characters of Oz, ingrown, launched in the tumultuous twentieth century. "One day the world had disowned their only refuge for providing the prison of reality. "
4 Dorothy becomes a devoted nurse and a bit naive of the war of 14-18, still flanked by his barking Toto. Man tin and the Scarecrow are Nick Chopper and Oscar respectively Crow, one mangled patched big toe by science, one whose memory has become defective due to shrapnel . Cowardly Lion, he has very bad end soon
5 ... The Wicked Witch of the East Elfeba is an aviator who makes the sky for a page to blacken. As for the Munchkins, and Avram Ei'zik, twins, they discover what it means to live in a world that is not to scale, considering them as a monstrosity, a show, and began wandering in search of a door to return to Oz and their other comrades,
displaced. They are lost in the absurdity of reality and his rampage: "The world is a slaughterhouse and we are not hungry anymore"
6 , There Is No Place Like Oz, finally. Their tragic journey during a crossing of the first fifty years of this century who invented the concentration camps and the atomic bomb. In Book XIX
, Claro was engaged in a masterly reconstruction of the nineteenth century
7, with the horse for animal totems, defying the air discoveries in "balloons infernal"
8 , the barricade in support of treaty and the way revolution.
CosmoZ which fits in chronological sequence of
Book XIX and if writing Claro reveals himself more devoted to the narration - with developing this cosmogony and epic scale - it does not leave behind the requirement and obsessions of his previous books.
Thus the fascination with machines - or rather the relationship between humans and machines, machines were invented by men - described as a material scientist malleable language in which you can explore the multiple meanings and thus drift toward imaginary continents. In Book XIX
, it narrates the art of ballooning and the advent of gas with a precision of dissection greedy; in
Electric Chair, which is the seat homophonic singing the "fury nodosa"
9 et qui devient un étrange vaisseau traversant les généalogies. In
CosmoZ , as we have mentioned, the great finds of the century, morbid
10, the "owls, [a] brilliant [t] he must be cleaned often for fun "
11 , but also the technique of aerial Elfeba typing or reconstruction of the experimental soldier Nick Chopper - nicknamed the" Lint "after his explosive crawling in a trench - treated by Dr. Huizard , tinkering at all is the mutilated as would cause car wrecks can pass safely control their own art to be still in circulation, driven by economic reasons reifying beings - "Would you let these reds missed these legged and these penguins look, um, thumbs very often they no longer? "
12 - to better exploit the benefit of the state. But obviously, the grain of sand. Something beyond the scientific, skids, and Nick Chopper, renamed "conservation", quarter man, three-quarters machine will not end his days at the plant inaugurated in paid leave rusting carcass on a beach in Normandy, but becomes - unwittingly - radio wave receiver, inhabited by voice Ghostly TS Elliot. Poetry cons industry. Industry falls into the water. The damaged refuse the show and make the trunk.
The "insurgency details"
13 continues in the medical field with the strange language of tumor L. Young Frank Baum - the future creator of the universe of Oz, so - that explodes and infects the air like a wolf spangled bladder, and eventually reappear in the mouth of Dorothy for the best dining, this child. And each character set itself up to question normal monster and his dictates: Oscar Crow, for example, slashed his memory, eventually an apprehension of time probably more subtle than the average ... Monsters chimeras and animate all books Claro : Guilderstein man-dog
Ezzelini 14, the blind Nina
Book XIX, or Medusa - the very one whose hair is a nest of snakes - in anatomy
Bunker 15 . Assistant obviously there, the horde ozienne phenomenal scene freaksienne if any, released in the century camps, flesh executioners, an orphan, a victim, ranging from disillusionment disillusionment with humanity, yes, his humanity - the concept already seems obsolete in the twentieth - only luggage. "These are the colors too violent for men who want to believe that the world will face sepia attraction parks and concentration camps. "
16 CosmoZ is a magnetic anti-fairy who takes a drive in his nets she let go, playing the indistinctness between fiction and reality in order to interfere in each fold lived in each memory, fear or hope. It devours it in broad strokes as a poison to the taste of ambrosia.
CosmoZ is also a world infinitely fascinating and infinitely disturbing. Should both observe the shimmering light, consider the epic as a whole, and know when to stop at the scale of a star, a sentence, observe the mechanics precise, relentless, mirror sets, the horizontal net. Suspend time and do it, devour and savor
CosmoZ at once, we have the power, the writer says he is us.
The books are worlds Claro, its cadences, arias. In
CosmoZ , he retains his sense of invention typographical
17 while reaching - since
thousand billion media - another literary dimension. Larger, more unifying. To describe it, I would try a comparison with readily Glenn Gould and his "slow learning" in the Goldberg Variations
between his interpretation of the 1955 and 1981, slower, making the economy a virtuosity no longer needed to be demonstrated. Claro achieved this accomplishment there with
CosmoZ , beating to perfection every inflection, the pleasure of knowing yield story, painting the emotion head-on, cruelty without parallax, weaving countless tracks stashed Trojan horse in for a reading inexhaustible bifurcating. An epic of the last century already - that we were born, one whose incandescent mythologies we live - inescapable, overwhelming.
------------------- Notes:
1 - novel written in 1900 by L. Frank Baum is a classic children's literature in the United States, as to film directed by Victor Fleming (released in 1939), it is one of the most successful film world.
2 - CosmoZ , P. 48.
3 - Ibid, p. 350.
4 - Ibid., P. 177.
5 - But we assure you that no animals were injured or abused for writing this book.
6 - Ibid., P. 90.
7 - Book XIX, Portraits, 1997. And since we're talking about taste for intricate stories / History, note that from Insula Batavorum (Claro, Arles, 1989), the character Mogilev tame his tongue (undead) and its history through the epic of the people Batavian early Christian era - and his defeat by the Roman Empire.
8 - Book XIX , P. 59.
9 - Electric Chair , Portraits, 2003, p. 11.
10 - "And God's anger is more than a match. ( CosmoZ , p. 492.)
11 - "Arms", a poem sung by Leo Ferre Black Desire.
12 - CosmoZ , P. 173.
13 - Ibid., P. 218.
14 - Ezzelini , Arles, 1986.
15 - Portraits, 2004.
16 - CosmoZ , P. 364.
17 - Very active in Flesh Electric and thousand billion media (publishing The beak in the air, 2010). CosmoZ ,
Claro, Actes Sud, 496 pages, in bookstores August 18, 2010.
The season 2 of Writers playoff is mounting. That is to say that the individual models are made (well, OK, almost, two or three to curl, but you think the weekend is done bubbling, perhaps?), It does 'll just (ah ah) any string starting on Monday. And then see corrections authors received to time, and those kindly performed by Anne-Laure and Daniele, too ... And pof, some 500 pages on the way to printing. This delicious nightmare will have lasted three weeks though dense - I evokes, of course, that the immersion phase. But at least I protect my solar capital, is not it. 
