Jean-Louis Milesi
Jean-Louis Milesi
Irène Frain (at the presentation of the City of Vannes Prize):
This is an exceptional book that you will read with absolute delight; it is both an adventure novel and a crime novel. A book that will appeal greatly to Bretons, as it tells the story of a people whom others sought to strip of their language and culture. We, too, were once ‘Indians’.
2024
Amélie Nothomb, Rosa Bonheur, Jean-Louis Milesi… This week’s selection of paperbacks.
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This week’s paperback, by Jean-Louis Milesi.
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2023
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With its fast-paced narrative, this book excels at bringing to life characters who are by turns funny, pitiable and admirable.
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Jean-Louis Milesi: words and images.
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The rise of a screenwriter turned novelist.
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An epic spirit sweeps through this flamboyant saga, a tribute to the Native American peoples. The real Wild West.
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Each chapter is a snapshot of a Western that is often unexpected and surprising. Back in the day, Curtis would have taken Polaroids; today, he’d have posted a story on Instagram… Jean-Louis Milesi, for his part, happily lets us create our own images.
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The fact remains that this poignant and personal novel, steeped in melancholy, is gripping. It is every bit as good as contemporary Westerns. You close the book with your head full of images, smells, sounds and landscapes.
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Milesi’s portrayal of America is captivating because he also recounts the tragedies and struggles of a pivotal era, placing us on the journey alongside characters who are as unique as they are endearing.
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Gloomy and brutal.
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Reading Milesi is like watching one of those contemporary Westerns that focus on Native American culture. It’s powerful. It’s a breath of fresh air.
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Jean-Louis Milesi does not set out to write a strict biography of Curtis, the man behind hundreds of photographs and documents devoted to the Native Americans. He skilfully blends fact and fiction around this stubborn hero, thereby succeeding in crafting an epic that portrays, with accuracy and empathy, the misery of a mistreated people.
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Jean-Louis Milesi offers us an epic of the calibre that another filmmaker, Bertrand Tavernier, would no doubt have appreciated.
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This is the sort of adventure novel you rarely come across...
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The dialogue is so skilfully ‘orchestrated’ that you can almost hear the music of Ennio Morricone.
Masterful.
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"Every literary season brings its own unexpected gem… Have you been dreaming of an epic that leaves you completely blown away? Follow the arrow."
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Read and recommended by a few booksellers.
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"A meeting with the writer and screenwriter Jean-Louis Milesi"
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"A fabulously well-told story."
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"This is a fictionalised historical account of a still little-known epic, written in a lively style."
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“How do you photograph ‘the unphotographable’ – those horses in the distance, those two feathers? The author has the answer, as he draws us into this magnificent and tragic epic, swept up in the deadly breath of the pioneers. Jean-Louis Milesi knows his stuff, as always.”
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A truly powerful and gripping book! (Audrey M., bookseller)
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France Bleue Vaucluse’s top pick:
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VIDÉO DE PRÉSENTATION (faite par la librairie Mollat)