2024-05-16 12:27:13
Two separated sisters, a small village on the facet of a mountain and painful secrets and techniques: from this common framework, the Valais writer Olivier Pitteloud composes with “Fluid the fault” a darkish novel of nice subtlety, carried by a kaleidoscopic writing long-breathed.
One fled, the opposite didn’t. Between the sister of the cities and the sister of the fields, a world of unstated phrases and violence. The mom dies, and these two souls that circumstances have alienated will try an inconceivable reunion.
With “Filling the Flaw”, his third novel, Olivier Pitteloud explores the unsaid issues of a disunited household, hit arduous by the transformations of the commercial world. The setting: a small village on the mountainside which we guess belongs to, with out being exactly positioned, the Valais of its origins.
I used to be at all times struck in my childhood, in my adolescence, by the truth that, in a small village, we’re below the gaze of everybody. The constraint could be very sturdy and sometimes important issues should not stated.
Olivier Pitteloud, writer of “Bridging the hole”
The disappearance of a world
In a universe which typically borrows its incredible characters from tales, the novelist depicts the disappearance of a world of traditions and crafts, and the violence that this disaffection engenders. The daddy, a carpenter, withers and dies. The mom, dry and brutal, holds the youngest daughter, who remained within the village, with an iron fist.
The eldest selected to flee. At 18, Aline (Ramuzian first identify) put a number of hundred kilometers between her and her household. In a giant metropolis, she hosts radio reveals dedicated to ecological points. It’s she who we uncover on the opening of the novel, disturbed in her stay broadcast by the irruption of a message from her sister asserting the dying of her mom. Reluctantly, she decides to return up the river to hitch her youthful sister, in pitiful situation, and uncover some secrets and techniques particular to her area of origin.
She appears to be like on the cellphone the place the voice has simply stated: the mom is useless, voice dry and arduous, she appears to be like on the display screen which has grow to be black and clean once more, as if nothing had been stated however the phrases had been stated, which got here from there – down, from the village the place she now not goes as a result of she will be able to now not stand (…)
Excerpt from “Bridging the hole” by Olivier Pitteloud
Within the ideas of the characters
On the sting of a noir novel, “Filling the Flaw” takes us little by little to the center of this household drama. By a really refined play of factors of view, Olivier Pitteloud invitations us to enter in flip into the circulate of ideas of 1 sister, of the opposite, of the dad and mom and witnesses of the village, like a subjective digital camera held by completely different protagonists.
Above all, there may be this model, this very distinctive music, made up of very lengthy phrases which seize us, hold us in suspense and recommend in a virtuoso means the simultaneity of motion, reminiscence and emotions. Delirium, the logorrhea induced by insanity is rarely far-off on this dizzying language, ideally suited for suggesting the emotional apnea during which the characters of this cathartic theater frolic.
Nicolas Julliard/mh
Olivier Pitteloud, “Bridging the hole”, ed. Bernard Campiche, March 2024.
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