Read her! (Fred Vargas)

A fantastic contemporary French crime writer who is now translated into English.

"Vous savez, reprit soudain Mathilde, c'est à la tombée de la nuit que les choses se passent, dans l'océan comme dans la ville. Tout s'y lève, ceux qui ont faim et ceux qui ont mal" (p.36)

"La petite chérie n'importe où et aimée par n'importe qui, mais respirant, le front buté, le nez busqué, les lèvres tendres, sa sagesse, sa futilité, sa silhouette, vivantes." (p.103)

from L'homme aux cercles bleus (English wikipedia here) collection J'ai lu policier, 6201.

Seeing the Invisible - Kai Mansberger

Seeing the Invisible is a collection of short-stories and poems from Kai Mansberger (1980-2004).

Kai was the son of one of my closest friends who has patiently recuperated the texts from three laptop computers. The poems and short-stories date from 2000 to 2004 before Kai was arrested and sent to hospital under the Mental Health Act, section 3. He was then drugged with more than 10 different types of mind-altering drugs (I would like to add here that I was once forced to take just one, and it took me a while to recover from this, probably more than from "my condition" of the time...), he was drugged yes, with 16 different types of mind-altering drugs. The Rape of Psyche relates to this episode of Kai's life.


Seeing the Invisible
ISBN: 978-1-84991-359-1
Published: 2011
Pages: 251
Key Themes: prose, poetry, philosophy, mental health