Things are moving fast in the test rankings with five new entries in the week of October 2 to 8 (according to Edistat). Exit Alain Duhamel, Pascal Ory and Gilles Kepel from the Top 20, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Nicolas Sarkozy, Edouard Philippe and Alain Juppé are resisting. Place for testing by political scientist and director of the opinion department of Ifop Jérôme Fourquet, France after. Political table and that of the brand new perpetual secretary of the French Academy, Amin Maalouf, entitled The Labyrinth of the Lost. The West and its adversaries. Subtle analysis of the foundations of a “new cold war” which can be found in L’Express. Also appearing in the list are the works of the former major reporter Stéphane Allix (Death does not exist), the philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa (Extension of the domain of capital) and of the president of Arte France Bruno Patino (Submersion).
But the most surprising thing in this fall ranking is perhaps the jump in the rankings, from 12th place to 4th, of Proust, family novel by Laure Murat after the concert of praise from the Masque et la Plume team which did not hide its admiration on Sunday October 1st at this essay in which the author, born into a blue-blooded family (Ancien Régime nobility for the maternal branch and nobility of the Empire on the paternal side), relates how the reading of The Search for Lost Time saved her from an environment where homosexuality was taboo. It was thirty years ago: Marcel Proust freed this “lost girl” (according to her mother) from shame.
For its part, the fiction list would almost resemble a tsunami with 9 new entries. With, in majesty, the superb jewel of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano (The dancer), preceded by the social historical chronicle of the Welshman Ken Follett (Weapons of Light)and followed by the new release (in France), The Golden Needles, by the astonishing American Michael McDowell (1950-1999), by Marie-Bernadette Dupuy (The Castle of Secrets (vol. III). Hearts at peace), from the “hospital” novel by family doctor Baptiste Beaulieu (Where do the tears go when they dry), from the thriller by Harlan Coben (On the traces of), from the fantasy novel by Canadian Danielle L. Jensen (The Bridge of Storms (t. II). The treacherous queen) and novels by the Americans ML Rio (If We Were Villains) and Shea Earnshaw (Long live the pumpkin queen). Phew!