Marc Dugain

L'Emprise est avant tout un bon roman avec des accents d'un House of Cards - le livre de Michael Dobbs ou la série BBC originale - à la française, où chacun rivalise de machiavélisme et de savants calculs politiques. Avec pour seul objectif : accroître son pouvoir. Les citoyens dans tout ça ? Des statistiques, des points dans les sondages, dans le meilleur des cas. Certes, Launay n'est pas aussi retors que Francis Urquhart, mais il est entouré de femmes et d'hommes tout aussi prêts show more à tous les coups bas. En effet, « les politiques sont là pour produire des lois qui rendent la société plus civilisée. Mais ils restent des reptiliens. » show less

Intérieur jour by Marc Dugain was written while he was working on the filming of L'Échange des princesses, after the book by Chantal Thomas.

Why would anyone read Intérieur jour if you have neither seen the film nor read the book the film was based on. This seems to be a logical question, and the answer may seem paradoxical. Because while the book was written for a seemingly very specific event, the book embraces all.

Anyone who reads Intérieur jour by Marc Dugain will find something of show more interest. All major events of the past two centuries are mentioned including references to all cultural icons and memes related to those events. By looking inward, Dugain magnifies detail to encompass the culture of our times and the world.

However, Dugain has one focal point, which ties Intérieur jour to his cinematic work, which is his focus on childhood, and impressive events that happened during childhood.

Marc Dugain has had a very unusual career spanning a range of experience broader than most people. His work on the filming of L'Échange des princesses has acted as a prisma to separate that broad spectrum into an essay that looks at human experience in many facets.

I had expected little of this book, but found it brimming with ideas. show less

The tragedy’s and joys of the friendship between 3 officers severely disfigured during The Great War. Moving and beautifully written.

It is 1914 - the first year of WWI. Adrien was at the front on the first day of the war when his two lieutenants were killed by a shell. Thankfully, Adrien still remained alive, however his face was so badly hit that his upper jaw had been blown off, and Adrien was kept in a ward without mirrors for those with facial wounds, where he was fed through his nose and looked after for the remainder of the war.
As he undergoes surgeries at the hospital, he meets two other soldiers whose faces were show more damaged, and he manages to keep in touch with them even after the war had ended.

I thought this book had lost a bit of its descriptive language when it was translated, however it was an easy (yet discomforting) read. I liked how the author started the story before the main event, and finished it well when he told us what happened to Adrien's friends and family. show less