Spectres

By Jacques Kattan

In the web of relationships discussed in Jacques Kattan's text, the point of one's life and one's connections with other people surfaces regularly: tre pour soi, ou tre pour autres? Can we live for ourselves alone? Gloria and Isabel abandon their cluttered lives - and children - for an independent life in a small village. Edward, a romantic, finds a more satisfactory rapport with a young jazz trombonist, Maurice, than his wife. But is our natural reserve, our nostalgia for the spectres of the past and our reflectiveness a valid defence to a lively, material world? The case for Jeanette, who abandons her addiction to cards for a liaison with the affable Edmund tells us that, happily, there's always room for compromise. In an intensely philosophical work, Kattan has focused on an unexpected facet of modern life - our isolation in the midst of so much activity. In his characters and their tangled lives, we cannot fail to see ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844010570
• ISBN13: 9781844010578
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: New Generation Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"