Published in 2013 by Gallimard, collection Folio SF, the book Parcours et itinéraires de la mémoire is a collection of several short stories written by Serge Brussolo at the beginning of his writing career.
A welcome collection
The short stories that populate Routes and Itineraries of Memory were scattered in many other collections, some of which are no longer published today. This book allows you to immerse yourself in the first inspirations of an author whose talent is well established. There are traces of great ideas that he was able to develop later, such as the idea of the cannibal ambulance, quickly evoked in the short story Anamorphosis or blood ties and developed in the book Unidentified Cannibal Ambulance published in 1985. It is with pleasure that we can immerse ourselves in these news and remember…
Sick cities
The disease, at first insidious and then gangrenant, is a recurring theme in the writings of Serge Brussolo, who develops with an admirable pen the most unusual symptoms (we will not forget the extraordinary Doctor Skeleton and Spit Concrete !). In this collection, cities come to life under the influence of intelligent computers in Sectional View of a Sick City or through the body of a young woman in Subway, elements for a subway mythology. We find the beginnings of this organic madness that wins both the objects (The immobile wrestlers) and the worlds (Territories of fever) of Serge Brussolo.
Sleeping peoples
African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness appears in many short stories of the collection, echoing blind societies, slaves under the yoke of the most powerful. Serge Brussolo depicts us peoples plunged into an endless sleep in … of the erebe and the night, forced to a deafness source of numbness and to which they aspire in Off. And in the face of this chaos one or two beings who resist, in the misunderstanding of the cult of sleep or softness, unsuitable, failing to blend into the mold shaped for them. Here again we find this theme so dear to the author of collective madness and resistance, of this inner struggle not to be caught up in the obsession that undermines others.
Filled with exciting ideas, fluid, singing writing, Journeys and Itineraries of Memory is a collection that reads avidly. A writer of inexhaustible talent, Serge Brussolo knew from the beginning how to captivate his reader and attract him to worlds he will not want to leave anytime soon. All that remains is to let yourself be guided!
