Invitation Letter For Inviting Brother

Travel Balda

"The very existence of Balda is not verifiable. Regardless, I'll be back."

On the edge of the unnoticed is a collection of texts in the tradition of imaginary voyages of Michaux and Pierre Bettencourt, an invitation exploration of fictitious and unexplored regions

Michel Guillou offers us and invites us to his own journey in Balda, and it is indeed a very wonderful dream to which he invites us.

I am always wary with this type of novel that we are always promises "full of poetry," but in fact we often find poetry with evocations of worlds under the influence, roads, route already known for places that often have an air of deja vu. With

Guillou is above all wonderful and unreal in question, these imaginary lands full of what childhood dreamed possible because that quite conceivable.

The difference between dreams and reality based not on fantasy but in the imagination.
Guillou fact as did Michaux, Bettencourt, Bee but Cyrano de Bergerac and many others (I'm a few years ago any subjective mapping of these imaginary lands ), the relation of a journey that takes its source deep within the intimate because that is what we Guillou shows except his inner world, the world as a dream?

Above all there is this sentence placed incipit which I find is all the mystery and charm of the book

"distances separating variables of Balder, very brief, very extensive, always winding. "This sentence

for entry into the field has no starting point. There is no point of origin to varying distances. Where is he from Balda to go? This is the reader to define, it is somewhat the standard meter. There is in that first sentence the full force of the invitation, we know immediately that this will also drive us to lay off for the journey Guillou proposes.

Balda is a world governed primarily by the art of matching words, a world that fascinates with its ability to divert or take literally the usual expressions. Thus baldéens can reap from the shadows into large jars for the days spent in the desert. Because they "always dressed in the costume of his destiny", he must learn to dress with care ... hat constrictor can become an object suddenly mortal.
It should be clear now, a surreal anime Balda and its inhabitants.
On the banks of the unnoticed is a book to be enjoyed, savored like a fine wine, complex and harmonious, generous and constantly renew its flavors, identical and yet new and more subtle with every sip.

Michel Guillou, On the banks the unnoticed Gallimard, 19 euros.