{"id":526693,"date":"2025-02-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=526693"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:02:46","slug":"critical-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/critical-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abWellness, the cruelty of crudity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The couple, both anchor and vertigo, mirror of a changing society. In his new novel, Nathan Hill reveals the raw beauty and searing flaws of this timeless institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It starts out as a romantic comedy, with slightly clich\u00e9d characters. Naively, we want more, we indulge in this lightness. But very quickly, we jump ahead twenty years, and the portrait of a contemporary society takes shape before our eyes. The couple's life becomes the theater of this society, which reveals itself in its most absurd forms, from protein powder to the latest applications. Education, sexuality, tastes, changing mores...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern couple: between raw reality and disenchantment<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is definitely not a book for dreaming. There's no dreamlike aura - the romanticism is almost immediately swatted away like a summer mosquito. This is the reality of our times, of the modern couple, in all its crudeness, almost satisfying and at the same time disturbing, detailed to the millimeter. It's a world without poetry, where consumerism and frenzy around futile things reign supreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n