Bild på författaren.

Marie-Sabine Roger

Författare till Soft in the Head

64+ verk 527 medlemmar 33 recensioner 2 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Foto taget av: Marie-Sabine Roger

Verk av Marie-Sabine Roger

Soft in the Head (2008) 293 exemplar
Get Well Soon (2012) 59 exemplar
Der Poet der kleinen Dinge (2010) 27 exemplar
Trente-six chandelles (2014) 20 exemplar
The Great Grrrrr (2023) 5 exemplar
Ein Himmel voller Sterne (2016) 5 exemplar
Les encombrants (2007) 5 exemplar
L'Arbre à Kadabras (2007) 4 exemplar
Une poignée d'argile: roman (2004) 4 exemplar
Le roi sans terre (2010) 3 exemplar
Attention fragiles (2000) 3 exemplar
Un simple viol (2004) 3 exemplar
Les sages Apalants (2008) 2 exemplar
Rikimini ve Arkadasi Ayicik (2015) 2 exemplar
Dakil le magnifique (2000) 2 exemplar
TERRIBLE EFFACEUR (LE) (2015) 2 exemplar
Zoucaribou (2014) 2 exemplar
Le royaume des reines (2004) 2 exemplar
Rominet et la sourigolote (1999) 2 exemplar
Tanguy l'Azur (2002) 2 exemplar
L'arbre sorcier (2004) 1 exemplar
Le Grand Grrrrr 1 exemplar
Dernière visite à ma mère (2021) 1 exemplar
VILAIN MONSTRE BLEU (LE) (2016) 1 exemplar
La souris des dents (2000) 1 exemplar
Lou Karibu 1 exemplar
Les Sources du Mal (2006) 1 exemplar
Le Mystère Esteban (2002) 1 exemplar
Rikimini (2013) 1 exemplar
Éliette und Léonard (2007) 1 exemplar
Monsieur Noël (2007) 1 exemplar
Et patati et patataupes-- (1999) 1 exemplar
TIBO PINGOUIN VA AU C.P. (1999) 1 exemplar
2011 1 exemplar
Bleu silence (2001) 1 exemplar
Loin Confins (2020) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Taggad

Allmänna fakta

Medlemmar

Recensioner

A man wakes up in hospital in plaster from head to foot and with various tubes attached to some complicated looking machinery. He is told that he must stay immobile for some time to aid his recovery. He vaguely remembers falling from a bridge over the river Seine in Paris. This is not the start of a mystery thriller but a very humane story of recovery from a serious accident.

Jean-Pierre Fabre is 67 years old, he is a widower and currently lives alone in an apartment in Paris. Marie-Sabine Roger writes about his painful and slow recovery from the accident. He is visited by the police who want to establish wether it was a suicide attempt and learns that he was dragged to safety by a young student who happened to be passing by. He adapts to the pace of life in the hospital, the visits of the surgeon and his entourage, the girl who comes to empty his waste fluid, the nurse who attends to his general health. He certainly has time on his hands and a whole new small world to get used to. He thinks about his life, and we learn it has not been exemplary, while he has not been cruel he has certainly been self possessed and was a tear-away when a teenager. His male chauvinism runs deep and he slowly comes to terms with making new relationships with the people that work in the hospital. When he is able, he starts to write his thoughts down on his lap-top, but then must cope with the young ward orderly who claims use of his computer. He meets the student who pulled him out of the river, a gay youth turning tricks to get himself through college. Jean-Pierre adapts to these new relationships in his life, sometimes wittily, sometimes cringe worthy, but increasingly with more compassion.

The novel has moments of wry humour, some thoughts on the quality of life, with death not too far away, but always from Jean-Pierres point of view. The success of this book is that it puts the reader in bed with John-Pierre, which is by no means a comfortable place to be. It has to be said that the book is also an endorsement of the health service in France. John-Pierre usually has a room to himself, the workers in the hospital are quietly efficient and everything runs smoothly, there is no lack of care or attention, in fact too much attention from John-Pierres point of view.

The book only covers John-Pierre's stay in hospital and so we don't know if his experience had a lasting effect, but from actions that he takes towards the end of his recovery, we suspect he leaves a wiser person than when he was brought in. Philosophical thoughts are not overdone, as the novel concentrates on the here and now, while allowing memories of John-Pierres earlier life to colour his thoughts, while inactive in his hospital bed. A good novel and four stars.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
baswood | 5 andra recensioner | Feb 16, 2024 |
Germain, cuarenta y cinco años, casi analfabeto, hijo poco querido y escolar humillado, pasa el tiempo haciendo algunas chapuzas o cultivando en el huerto. Desconfía de aquellos que han estudiado, de los libros y de las palabras difíciles, que le dicen poco. Pero una tarde, en el parque, conoce a Margueritte, una vieja dama que está sentada en su banco favorito, y descubre que comparten un mismo pasatiempo: contar pájaros.
Entre ellos nace una amistad improbable. Margueritte es una mujer culta, que parece no percatarse de las cosas que él ignora y que le propone leer un libro en voz alta. Germain, por educación, acepta y así descubre el mundo de los libros, de la magia de la lectura, y de las tardes con Margueritte.… (mer)
 
Flaggad
Natt90 | 18 andra recensioner | Mar 28, 2023 |
I initially liked the concept of a halfwit man in his 40's befriending an intellectual lady in her 80's, as it's not a dynamic that is overused in today's books, but I just found that this novel lacked substance. It had the shallow depth of a children's book, while being an adult book. Strange.
 
Flaggad
womanwoanswers | 18 andra recensioner | Dec 23, 2022 |
Ich bin an sich kein großer Fan von Büchern, in denen sich mehrere Außenseiter zusammentun und plötzlich alles passt. Das erscheint mir immer zu unwahrscheinlich und zu einfach, auch wenn das natürlich genau die Geschichten sind, die Menschen mitreißen. Beispiele gibt es genug, von „Vincent will Meer“ bis zu „Zusammen ist man weniger allein“ und ich leugne nicht, dass das anrührende Geschichten sind. Man wünscht sich halt, dass es so gehen kann.
Und so ist es auch hier: Die junge Harmonie hat das Tourette-Syndrom in einer sehr ausgeprägten Form. Die 76-jährige Fleur hingegen hat eine Angststörung. Auch die anderen Protagonisten des Buches tragen ihr Päckchen. Marie-Sabine Roger ist eine Autorin, die Außenseiter sehr glaubhaft darstellen kann. Ich kenne von ihr nur „Das Labyrinth der Wörter“ (ähnliches Setting) und fand das recht gut. Sie kann auch wirklich gut schreiben und hat einen schönen Stil.
Also, kurz gesagt: Das Buch ist schön, kurzweilig, lustig und traurig zugleich. Man lernt Personen kennen, die Ecken haben, an die man sich gewöhnen muss. Der Stil – mal aus der einen und mal aus der anderen Sicht geschrieben - ist sehr passend und überzeugend. Beide, Fleur und Harmonie, sind sehr klar in ihren Charakteren dargestellt. Ich mag vor allem die Stellen von Fleur, sie wird im Laufe des Buches immer witziger. Harmonie hingehen ist klüger, desillusionierter, durchschaut mehr und ist somit auch weniger leicht zufriedenzustellen. Das Buch gibt Hoffnung, ist rührend und überhaupt nicht platt.
… (mer)
½
 
Flaggad
Wassilissa | Sep 13, 2022 |

Listor

Priser

Du skulle kanske också gilla

Associerade författare

Statistik

Verk
64
Även av
1
Medlemmar
527
Popularitet
#47,213
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
33
ISBN
133
Språk
7
Favoritmärkt
2

Tabeller & diagram