ju a terminé la lecture de Kolkhoze par Emmanuel Carrère
Kolkhoze de Emmanuel Carrère
Au lendemain de la Deuxième guerre mondiale, un jeune bourgeois bordelais rencontre une jeune fille pauvre, apatride, fille d’une aristocrate …
I'm not sure how I came across this book and why I decided to read it. The mountaineering part probably attracted my curiosity. Overall, this reads much like a parody of the spy thriller genre like James Bond, and I'm not certain it was written to be one. There is intentional humour in it, but at other times, it really is what it is: a thriller written in the seventies, with mindless sex, a handsome hero with no patriotism whatsoever, a plot that doesn't make sense all the time, and the obligatory twist you see coming from a mountain away. I'm curious about the Clint Eastwood movie though, but for the climbing scenes of course.
