Jean-Gabriel Causse puts a little color in our summer with a little novel full of joy and lightness. Les Crayons de Couleur simply questions the place of colors in our sometimes too gray lives.
Charlotte is a color scientist. Her knowledge is all the more impressive because she is blind from birth. Arthur is an employee of a colored pencil factory. A drifting salesman, his penchant for drinking alters his former athlete physique. Together, Charlotte and Arthur will have to save the world. Overnight, all the colors disappeared. No one knows how, no one knows why. Deprived of all its nuances, the world sinks into a depression with fifty shades of gray. Although they have always been part of our daily lives, we no longer notice the colors that surround us. Until they run out. In their crusade to save humanity, Charlotte and Arthur will meet more enemies than friends.
The color of happiness
Les Crayons de Couleur is a novel of 310 pages, all filled with cheerfulness. The plot remains simple and the story moves forward without tormenting the reader too much. However, we follow the adventures of the two heroes from beginning to end with pleasure. The lightness of the tone and the poetry related to the theme of the novel make the Crayons de couleur a perfect little book for the holidays. Jean-Gabriel Causse is a writer and designer specializing in the influence of colors on human behavior. The author shares his knowledge in touches, distilling here and there some facts and studies related to colors. This knowledge is perfectly integrated into the fiction and serves the plot quite well. Jean-Gabriel Causse questions the place of colours in our society, the effects they produce and the symbolism in which we can lock them.
The Colored Pencils is a perfect novel to have a good time and stay open to the world around us. It is available from Flammarion and J'ai Lu editions from 7€20.
