This novel for young people, I would rename it "The Ocean or the Child Communication by Gaze." Indeed, that is my brand the most in this touching story of Jean-Claude Mourlevat. Narrative of the journey in which Yann, the hero leads his brothers, all twins.
Yann is the youngest of a family of seven boys and their parents, Doutreleau, raise in poverty and harshness. Despite her ten years and its tiny size, Yann demonstrated an intelligence and maturity amazing. It naturally became the "leader" of the siblings and drives his elders in a long journey to the ocean to put an end to this life of discipline, violence, instead of being bathed in love. Yes, it is in an ocean of tenderness they would swim, like all of us. But often we do not collect the expected condition, on the contrary it is a love interesting, if not disinterest, a disregard that we encounter on our road, when it is not the distrust that holds the other away from us. And it results in the eye.
L'Enfant Ocean is a narrative of events, they are eyes that speak with equal or more effective than words.
Another quality of this novel is the diversity of viewpoints. Each person who knew or met Yann Doutreleau tells a piece of history, each with its own language, often with humor. Different narrators, different levels of language, different points of view.
Jean-Claude Mourlevat, L'Enfant Ocean , Pocket Jeunesse, 1999.
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