The artistic bug tends to reach anyone who has nurtured a cultural family environment, in whatever aspect. Didier decoin was born between scripts and celluloid of a father devoted to the cinema. Be it genetic or by repetition, Didier ended up orienting himself to the world of creation, in this case literary.
Perhaps because of a possible use of his condition as the son of, Didier has always taken up the profession of writing in a highly professional way. Each novel is an authentic documentary on possible historical or social scenarios, something that is appreciated to be able to enjoy novels that reach a maximum level of rigor and credibility.
And the 20-year-old Didier had already thought about writing when he managed to publish his first novel. It has not passed through my hands, and I do not know if it is even translated into Spanish, with which to be able to determine if the writer had already been done or if it required a natural polishing time, I do not know.
What is clear is that today Didier Decoin is one of the great French writers, awarded, recognized and destined to participate in different literary and cultural institutions ...
His book also published in Spain, The pond and garden office, became a new and great success in France and other countries where it has already been published.
3 Recommended Novels by Didier Decoin
This is how women die
With this novel Didier broke into the Spanish literary market. A novel that presents us with a unique panorama about social environments and estrangement, the alienation that can arise in the face of events that disrupt normal coexistence. Fear, indifference, the worst of characters who, forced by circumstances, present a bleak scenario.
Summary: Didier Decoin recreates with extreme narrative ability that United States of the sixties, that of the Corvair cars and the Johnson presidency. He walks us through an unhealthy New York to tell us the drama of Kitty Genovese, Moseley's coldness before his victims and before the prosecutor who interrogates him, the impassivity and indifference of the neighbors in the face of crime, the social commotion that he generated through the media…
Decoin uses fiction to outline the soul and the way of thinking of the characters involved in that event that shook North American society, to delve into their intimacy and be able to understand the reason for that murder and the disturbing reasons for the passivity of the witnesses.
This is how women die, a play on words based on verses by André Breton sung by Léo Ferré (Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent), is a deep and overwhelming reflection on the human condition and its attitude in extreme situations.
Such was the resonance that the Genovese case had that it became a psychological phenomenon, a subject of university study, known as the "bystander effect."
The pond and garden office
A wonderful history of the Far East and the past XNUMXth century. A world sustained by customs and governed in the shadows by the law of the strongest. The woman as an emblem, once again, of the struggle for survival.
Summary: A Woman's Odyssey in XNUMXth Century Japan. The strict summary of this novel is condensed in this simple phrase. The rest comes later…. Didier Decoin took the writing of this novel very seriously (as he should, of course)
More than a decade dedicated to the knowledge and approach to the Japanese culture to go equipping yourself with everything you need for a simple but profound novel. Miyuki undertakes an unexpected journey from her small town to the center of power in Japan at the time, the imperial court of Emperor Kanna. As in so many other occasions, the important thing is the trip, Miyuki's encounter with the harshness of time she has to live and her temperance to overcome everything.
A certain fantastic touch sometimes serves as Miyuki's own handle to deny that atrocious world, with that I do not know what of the Japanese culture that awakens morals from each scene, from each encounter.
In fact, the simple sketch of Miyuki as destined to the maintenance of the imperial ponds and convinced to undertake a journey to the death of her husband, is already metaphorical.
Choosing a path provokes encounters with the perverse of the human being but also brilliant scenes of reconciliation with existence, however irreconcilable the abuse and suffering of someone who only seeks his little happiness may seem.
John L'Enfer
A trip to the underworld of New York, to the lives and memories of the immigrants who occupy its streets, to little love stories and an apocalyptic announcement that salvation is increasingly far away.
