Transcript Delphine de Vigan No et moi

Delphine de Vigan
No et moi
Title: No et moi
Author: Delphine de Vigan
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Language: French
Pages: 250
Publisher: Le Livre de Poche, 1263168000
ISBN: 225312480X
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 8.8 MB
Download: allowed
Description
Lou Bertignac a 13 ans, un QI de 160 et des questions plein la tête. Les yeux grand ouverts,
elle observe les gens, collectionne les mots, se livre à des expériences domestiques et dévore
les encyclopédies.
Enfant unique d’une famille en déséquilibre, entre une mère brisée et un père champion de la
bonne humeur feinte, dans l’obscurité d’un appartement dont les rideaux restent tirés, Lou
invente des théories pour apprivoiser le monde.
A la gare d’Austerlitz, elle rencontre No, une jeune fille SDF à peine plus âgée qu’elle.
No, son visage fatigué, ses vêtements sales, son silence.
No, privée d’amour, rebelle, sauvage.
No dont l’errance et la solitude questionnent le monde.
Des hommes et des femmes dorment dans la rue, font la queue pour un repas chaud, marchent
pour ne pas mourir de froid. « Les choses sont ce qu’elles sont ». Voilà ce dont il faudrait se
contenter pour expliquer la violence qui nous entoure. Ce qu’il faudrait admettre. Mais Lou
voudrait que les choses soient autrement. Que la terre change de sens, que la réalité
ressemble aux affiches du métro, que chacun trouve sa place. Alors elle décide de sauver No,
de lui donner un toit, une famille, se lance dans une expérience de grande envergure menée
contre le destin. Envers et contre tous.
Roman d’apprentissage, No et moi est un rêve d’adolescence soumis à l’épreuve du réel. Un
regard d’enfant précoce, naïf et lucide, posé sur la misère du monde. Un regard de petite fille
grandie trop vite, sombre et fantaisiste.Un regard sur ce qui nous porte et ce qui nous manque,
à jamais.
Insightful reviews
Tracy Terry: A deeper read than you might expect, wonderfully moving - if you are anything like
me you might want to have a box of tissues at the ready - and with characters that grab you by
the heart and don't let go.
Originally published in French as an adult novel I only hope people aren't put off by the young
adult tag given to the English publication.
The story of what happens when Lou (a somewhat precocious and yet lonely thirteen year old
two years ahead of her peers at school) opts to do a presentation on the plight of homeless girls
and comes across No (short for Nolwenn) an older and certainly more street wise individual on
the face of it and yet underneath it all just as lonely and certainly more vulnerable.
Deeply thought provoking and yet without any big revelations. I certainly didn't come away have
learnt anything new about the human condition (but then again I'm by no means a teenager), to
me the magic of No and Me lay in it being a poignantly beautiful story sublimely written.
Copyright: Tracy Terry @ Pen and Paper.
Amanda: Where to begin. If you'd told me that I would be up til the wee hours of the night
reading a book about a 13 yr old Parisian girl who befriends an 18 yr old homeless girl, I'd've
snorted with laughter. Right in your face.
But this book just pulls you in! Lou is 13 and has known her share of loss and sorrow and
carries a burden much too large for her tiny frame. She has a mother who is practically catatonic
with depression and a father who spends his waking hours trying to pretend that this is normal.
Lou is also bright. VERY bright. She's been skipped ahead 2 years and has an IQ of 160. She
also has OCD, creating "experiments" to occupy her time so she does not have to feel her pain
and grief.
One day she meets a homeless girl, No, at a train station in Paris. Lou decides to do her school
project on homelessness and begins meeting No regularly to interview her for her project.
From the beginning it's painfully clear that Lou wants to save No. And that No probably can't be
saved. This book was a huge hit in France, and in typical French style it does not indulge in
cheap sentimentality. There is no Life Changing Moment, no Afterschool Special-esque
resolution. You love Lou and you even love No. You want things to be different, for both of
them. You want to shake your fist at a society that learns to ignore the vulnerable and the
lonely. You want to shake Lou's mother out of her depression and pull the blinders from her
father's eyes.
The writing, the voice of this book, is incredible. Lou narrates with such awareness. It is so
powerful. I have a feeling that this book will be on many Required Reading lists in France in the
future.
Keertana: Rating: 4.5 Stars
No and Me is that book that you wish you had a time machine for; the one you want to go back
in time and thrust to your young teenage self, begging them to read it because perhaps, if they
do, they'll understand life a little better and won't make all the mistakes they will. It's the type of
novel that whisks you away into a completely different world, but its prose isn't flowery like that
of Laini Taylor; instead, it's a more subtle type of beauty where each and every phrase simply
makes you put down the book and think. I knew, even before I picked up No and Me that it
would be amazing - it did, after all, come recommended to me by three of my most trusted
bloggers - but I didn't quite expect the level of wonder, of emotion, and of nostalgia that this
book would make me experience, all over again and somehow new at the same time. Truly, No
and Me is a literary gem like no other and really, I cannot recommend it enough.
Delphine de Vigan's debut into YA Literature seems to be a simplistic story, one of Lou, a
thirteen-year-old precocious girl living in France who interviews No, a homeless eighteen-yearold woman, for a school project. Only, Lou can't stop thinking about No or the homeless life she
leads and when she invites No to live with her, to become part of her family, she doesn't count
on No's own past coming back to haunt, not only No, but Lou as well. In my eyes, the depth and
beauty of this novel isn't in its plot or subject matter, but in its writing. Lou, as a highly intelligent
teenager, sees life in a different light and it is this - her flashes of brilliance, her incredible insight
- that made this novel so special for me.
No and Me isn't an easy novel to read. I'm sure that we've all had an experience or two with
homeless people, perhaps less if you haven't traveled outside of America. Ever since I was a
child, however, I've been painstakingly aware of the plight of the homeless and beggars. Born in
India, I witnessed hoards of homeless people daily, on every street, begging for money or
selling cheap plastic toys to tourists in an effort to make a few cents. If it wasn't on the streets, it
was in the railway stations as children sold tea instead of attending school, in the airports where
they would greet you stepping off the plane - everywhere. I've visited India every summer since
I moved to America when I was a baby, but it never fails to shock me, every time, the number of
homeless who are still there, who will probably always be there, and most of all, the plight of
those like us who are, frankly, unable to do anything.
It is this lesson that Lou learns in this novel, this earth-shattering wake-up-call, but more than
even her friendship with No, her dependency on her, her refusal to believe that No and herself
really did not belong in the same world, let alone the same life and the same home, was Lou's
life at home. Although this novel focuses primarily on No and her impact on Lou's life, it also
focuses on Lou's parents; her mother who has been numb with grief ever since her second child
died in her arms, her father who cares for No with an optimism that hides his inner grief, and
Lou's own social awkwardness when making friends and approaching seventeen-year-old
Lucas who is everything she sees herself as not being. For me, it was the realistic portrayal of
Lou's home life, of her struggles with her parents and her inner insecurities about growing up
with a mother who never really cared that touched me more than anything else.
Perhaps best of all, though, is how painstakingly life-like this novel is. Its ending never wraps up
any loose threads, never tries to explain No and her behavior or even the lives of those living on
the streets, never tries to sugar-coat the fact that Lou's mother will never be the same despite
the tragic events that happened years ago...it's almost an abrupt ending, one that leaves you
smiling, with the twinkle dimmed from your eyes. Yet, it's a beautiful story, one that is written
unflinchingly, told realistically, and leaves you wanting to simply hold the novel to your chest as
you're forced to - yet again - contemplate the simple truths of existence that one person is too
small to change. Nevertheless, this manages to be a novel of immense hope and although I
wished for a slightly longer, dragged out, or even more conclusive end, I wouldn't have it any
other way - this book is perfect, just the way it is.
I'd urge you all to check out the reviews of Catie from The Readventurer and Maja from The
Nocturnal Library who are the reason why I picked up this gem.
You can read this review and more on my blog, Ivy Book Bindings.
Kelly: Plot: 1 StarCharacters: 1 StarWriting: 2 StarsEnding: 1.5 StarOverall: 1.4 StarsI was once
actually pressured to learn this booklet for my school's curriculum.It did not, whatsoever, spark
my curiosity from the 1st to the final page. completely now not my cup of tea. The e-book was
once simply dragging on forever; an excessive amount of pointless details.I do not believe i will
relate to this booklet at all. It used to be unrealistic in such a lot of methods and used to be
completely confusing. This e-book didn't gain whatever to enhance my wisdom from what the
academics have been saying.In conclusion, institution forums aren't strength scholars to learn
such dull books that might purely make them disappointment and frustration.
Nicola : this is often a type of books that makes me want Goodreads had part stars. i do not
believe No and Me is mostly a 5 megastar publication yet 4 stars turns out too little. i actually
loved this one and it had me hooked from the very beginning. The narrator is rare and
believable. She's a 13 yr previous who believes she will switch the world. No used to be an
enticing character- tricky yet hugely intriguing. i presumed Lou's mom and dad have been rather
well built and their habit felt correct and that i was once capable of attach good with the full
family. The e-book is a straightforward learn when it comes to language however it does
disguise the very genuine and grim subject of homeless humans in France and is extremely
insightful and compelling. i'd suggest this publication to someone who is trying to find whatever
a bit various to the norm.
Luana: l. a. copertina, è una bella copertina. Il titolo, è un bel titolo. Aver trovato in un libro che
acquistai il segnalibro che pubblicizza 'Gli effetti secondari dei sogni' mi ha convinta a
comprarlo, quasi si trattasse di un segno del destino. Leggendo l. a. quarta di copertina si
scopre che l'autrice, Delphine De Vigan, ha vinto - grazie a questo romanzo - 'il prestigioso Prix
des Libraires al Salon du Livre 2008.A questo punto sorge spontanea l. a. domanda: chi è che l.
a. De Vigane ha pagato consistent with riuscire a vincere il premio? Con chi è andata a letto
according to meritarsi di essere insignita? Non che il libro faccia totalmente schifo, ma l'unico
premio che gli avrei dato è Premio in keeping with 206 Pagine da Leggere in un'Ora di pace da
Perdere. los angeles trama è banale, i personaggi inverosimili, los angeles morale intrisa di un
fastidioso e superficiale perbenismo. Il titolo mai fu meno azzeccato - ma di questo non si può
imputare los angeles colpa all'autrice in quanto il titolo originale 'No et moi' calza a pennello.C'è
l. a. secchiona con un quoziente intellettivo da 160, un genio.C'è il ribelle della classe, spavaldo,
bocciato più volte del figlio di Bossi.(Per chi abbia visto il cartone animato Rossana, capirà bene
che i due personaggi provengono direttamente dal cartone giapponese, niente di più
scontato)Ci sono due famiglie, i loro irrimediabili segreti, los angeles chiusura totale, l'incapacità
advert esprimere il dolore.(E a questo punto, non vi sembra di sentire un'eco che vi risveglia
ripetendo 'Paolo Giordano, solitudine-ne-ne-ne, numeri primi-primi-primi)Ovviamente c'è lei, il
'caso umano', los angeles disperata, l. a. montagna di merda sulla quale si accumulano tutti i
problemi che affliggono tutti i protagonisti - cosa che accade sempre, del resto, nella vita reale
che tutti si preoccupino according to tutti (Thomas extra period meno utopista -, No, una
barbona.La trama los angeles scoprirete da voi - nel caso in cui vogliate spendere (buttare) 9€,
quindi non vi racconto altro. Vi basti sapere che in scena non entrano personaggi, ma
maschere. Maschere già viste, che non variano, i personaggi che popolano i romanzetti degli
ultimi 10 anni. Complessi, depressioni, segreti.Lo stile non rapisce, l'ho letto in due giorni
perché in aereo avevo ben poco da fare e perché son solita leggere i libri sino in fondo altrimenti come farei a demolirli quando non si salvano nemmeno sul finale? Ecco, l'ho detto,
finale. Un finale sconclusionato, un finale, permettetemi los angeles licenza poetica, m e r d o s
o. Mentre il Lettore legge pensa 'Ma cosa sto leggendo?'. Vi assicuro, un delusion è meno
fantasioso di questa vicenda in cui nella Parigi del 2006/2007 una barbona viene accolta in
casa da un genio (che poi, ne riparlerei di questo appellativo) con alle spalle una famiglia
depressa.Un vago amore adolescenziale, un amore impossibile (lei è una secchiona, lui un figo
trasandato).Tuttavia, De Vigane talvolta riesce a scrivere tre righe di seguito in maniera
decente, colmi di congiuntivi e barlumi di consapevolezza riguardo los angeles psiche
umana.Consigliato, a chi dovesse affrontare un viaggio in treno di three ore e non sapesse che
cosa leggere di non troppo pesante.Per tutto il resto, tenete quei 9€ saldi nelle vostre mani e
provvedete advert un acquisto migliore - magari una buona pizza o un bell'uovo di Pasqua, visto
che siamo nel periodo adatto.
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