{"id":529828,"date":"2025-11-11T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=529828"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:55:53","slug":"the-end-of-critical-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/the-end-of-critical-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb, writing so as not to fade away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, collecting the images it projects and reconstructing their diffractions. Even if the flashes of genius turn out to be shards of glass.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A year after the release of his previous opus, Quentin Mouron returns to titillate bookshops in French-speaking Switzerland. In his seventh novel, he takes a closer look at love relationships, with two opposing stories. 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Between love, fatigue and lucidity, a man and others cross the desert of an era without promise, seeking not happiness, but a reason to still believe in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-on-ne-revient-jamais-impunement-sur-les-lieux-d-un-amour-assassine\">\u00abOne never returns with impunity to the scene of a murdered love\u00bb.\u00bb<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the bright July light, amidst children's laughter and the rolling of the waves, Anastasie unscrews the cap from a jerry can, strikes a match and exits the room, just as Antonin had exited their relationship five years earlier. A few moments later, the flames will have completely ravaged the apartment where they last vacationed, as well as the one above, where Gilles and Cl\u00e9mence, a couple mired in their routine, are staying. The protagonists had no reason to cross paths, but as in a play, their destinies are trampled on, then accommodated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world where passions burn out faster than they ignite, <em>\u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb<\/em> recounts the drift of a few modern souls who, after the calcination of a love and the ruin of certainties, try to reinvent a possible form of gentleness. We read about the weariness to love, the beauty that stubbornly persists, the tenderness that slips between doubts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-une-prose-tenue-des-defauts-tenus\">Strong prose, minor flaws<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If the first pages of <em>\u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb<\/em> take up the writing mechanics of <em>La derni\u00e8re chambre du Grand H\u00f4tel Ab\u00eeme<\/em> (short chapters, long sentences without periods, a narrative poem as a conclusion), you soon realize that you're dealing with a masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quentin Mouron seems to have built on the resources of his previous novel, but erased its flaws and dross, its rough draft. The process has matured, and the strength of the images and stylistic breaks is now in full bloom. The author's distended prose wraps itself around sharp sentences and well-prepared lyricism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while there are some lengthy passages and narrative misunderstandings (the long scenes set against the backdrop of the social crisis and summer riots of 2023), the novelist skilfully regains control of his work by inviting himself into it, with a stroke of his self-fictional magic wand. It's undeniably a book that provokes inner debate and makes you want to question the author's writing choices and aesthetic biases. With Mouron, sadness never quite dies; it simply learns to speak better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Quentin Perissinotto<\/strong>&nbsp;is a literary critic for&nbsp;<\/em>Regard Libre<em>. Write to the author:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:quentin.perissinotto@leregardlibre.com\">quentin.perissinotto@leregardlibre.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vous-venez-de-lire-une-critique-en-libre-acces-tiree-de-notre-edition-papier-le-regard-libre-n-121-debats-analyses-actualites-culturelles-abonnez-vous-a-notre-media-de-reflexion-pour-nous-soutenir-et-avoir-acces-a-tous-nos-contenus\">You have just read an open-access review from our print edition (<a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cpt-editions\/the-121-mercantilism-free-look\/\"><em>Le Regard Libre<\/em> N\u00b0121<\/a>). Debates, analyses, cultural news:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/subscription\/\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to support us and access all our content.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529829 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture.jpg 400w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/couverture-300x465.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Quentin Mouron<br><em>\u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb<\/em><br>Editions Favre<br>August 2025<br>160 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.payot.ch\/Detail\/9782828922603\">Order the book<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaque mois, notre critique litt\u00e9raire s\u2019attache \u00e0 passer une \u0153uvre au kal\u00e9idoscope, afin de r\u00e9colter les images qu\u2019elle projette et&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":529830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20663],"tags":[31254,54879,1532851,193275253,644340183,644342690,38542],"class_list":["post-529828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litterature","tag-amour","tag-critiques-litteraires","tag-litterature-francophone","tag-litterature-romande","tag-litterature-suisse","tag-quentin-mouron","tag-roman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb, \u00e9crire pour ne pas s\u2019\u00e9teindre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Un an apr\u00e8s la sortie de son pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent opus, Quentin Mouron revient titiller les librairies romandes avec \u00abLa fin de la tristesse\u00bb. 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