{"id":2005977,"date":"2012-01-16T00:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2012\/01\/16\/animal-life-by-justin-torres\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:04:47","slug":"animal-life-by-justin-torres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2012\/01\/16\/animal-life-by-justin-torres\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal life by Justin Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paris, Lord&#8217;s Day,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday, January 15, 2012,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1628425_6_62c8_couverture-de-l-ouvrage-de-justin-torres-vie1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32063 lazyload\" title=\"1628425_6_62c8_couverture-de-l-ouvrage-de-justin-torres-vie\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1628425_6_62c8_couverture-de-l-ouvrage-de-justin-torres-vie1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1628425_6_62c8_couverture-de-l-ouvrage-de-justin-torres-vie1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1628425_6_62c8_couverture-de-l-ouvrage-de-justin-torres-vie1.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 204px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 204\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This first novel, no longer than 150 pages, is short. And yet, like a good trickster, the author sweeps us along for more than half the story with his untimely &#8220;on&#8221;. &#8220;We wanted more.&#8221; &#8220;We wanted nothing, just this, just this.&#8221; &#8220;We stopped for a moment, time to breathe.&#8221; And that&#8217;s just the beginning&#8230; As a result, the imposing question of &#8220;Who&#8217;s speaking?&#8221; intrudes &#8211; right from the start &#8211; into the reading.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the harsh, violent environment of a crazy family, as society always knows how to make them, a pack of three brothers try their hand at life. While the father beats the crap out of his wife and leads the children to believe that it&#8217;s the dentist who&#8217;s done her in, the mother &#8211; off-kilter at 360\u00b0 and weak to the point of death &#8211; can easily forget to feed the flesh with her blood. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the midst of chaos, we watch these three kids, their silhouettes as yet ill-defined, bend to the irrational yet irrefutable demands of a disoriented family. Staying in orbit, constantly dealing with life, apprehending risk-taking to better try to circumvent it, taking on forced roles that are not supposed to be those of childhood&#8230; Growing up, in a way, a little diagonally. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A V-shaped life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The polluting &#8220;we&#8221; is &#8211; after all &#8211; only the soprano voice of the youngest. An &#8220;I&#8221; who, despite having grown up in a sibling family, is the product of the same genetic make-up, seems to be the trio&#8217;s winning candidate, both in terms of intelligence and intimate experience of borders, and in terms of extreme sensitivity, which suggests playing double or nothing with existence. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said you were so brilliant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So brilliant!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And you know what else? She said you were capable of destroying yourself, too. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The way she talks about you,&#8221; Joel said, &#8220;you sound like a fucking crystal vase.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first novel is rooted in the big crushing machine of autobiographical narratives, but there&#8217;s no need to wriggle, this one is meant to be a good vintage. Justin Torres, and we&#8217;ll even forgive him his first name (that&#8217;s saying a lot&#8230;), skilfully slaloms &#8211; ball in hand &#8211; between poetic sensibility and apocalyptic episodes. And we&#8217;re glad he does, because he avoids almost all the traps of the genre, which he could have foisted on us over and over again.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From a story nourished by a plural, and which only manages to grow under the pressure of this idea of brotherhood as guardian, is revealed the singular experience of a kid who smells different perfumes and pursues lights that only he knows how to see. Vie animale never lets up, throughout, and brilliantly strings together a reader swollen by the incredible intellectual vivacity of this Little Being from nothing. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elisa Palmer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, Lord&#8217;s Day, Sunday, January 15, 2012, This first novel, no longer than 150 pages, is short. 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