(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #246 - Read: Patrick
Deville, "Viva" (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The novel by Patrick Deville came out last spring. He might burn from the sun that crushes
cities and Mexican volcanoes, the publisher chose a bad timing for a melancholy novel that
enjoys much more in the fall. ---- Viva is a stroll in Mexico City today to meet the
artists and revolutionaries who have marked the twentieth century. Lost or losers but
beautiful. Poets, writers, Victims of Stalinism and Stalinist killers, many Europeans were
to cross, to meet or lost in the post-revolutionary Mexico from 1917 to 1947. In search of
spirituality, rest or oblivion. ---- Artaud, Craven, Lowry and Breton one side. Trotsky,
Victor Serge, Modotti, Spanish anarchists of the other. But Benjamin Peret or B. Traven,
which in turn are militiamen and writers. Mexicans are not left in the shadow of Zapata,
Villa and Popocatepetl. The first course map Kahlo and Rivera.
This incredible amount of energy and creativity gathered here around these outlaws and
fugitives such, we have thousands of pages of the Deville short novel invites us to
remember; but to read or reread even cry tears of mezcal.
Jean-Yves (AL 93)
Patrick Deville, Viva , Le Seuil, 2014, 217 pages, 17.50 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Patrick-Deville-Viva
