In almost every creative field, I am fascinated by puzzling creators. Because certainly nothing more demonstrates the commitment to artistic creation than variability and exploration. Gillaume mussoDespite having a narrative plot that runs throughout his work, he is always investigating disparate stories from here and there.
It is something like Bunbury in music ... in short, creators who feel forced to create for their own sake, without further conditioning. And that ends up placing them well above recommendations or impositions, whether they come from the publisher or from the followers.
So going through the bibliography of this French writer can always end up upsetting the reader who seeks thematic uniformity or repetition of an argument for which he has succumbed to Musso's narrative power.
As soon as we can think of labeling it as part of the new french crime novel as we crave a style to Kate morton as for its combination of mystery, a romantic touch and a fantasy touch. The controls of the mixer offer very different harmonies and it is good that they all know how to use them.
In Spain we could compare him, due to his intense imagination and his sometimes dark touch, with Javier Castillo o Victor of the Tree, although the latter delve more into the noir genre or the most marked suspense. Simply choose, read without bias and enjoy. For my part, if I can give you a hand...
Gillaume Musso's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Life is a novel
It has always been said that here everyone writes their books. And eager that many are shown to find the writer on duty who is in charge of shaping their story, or waiting for the creative vein that can put black on white those experiences so transcendent in the eyes of those affected by the passage of life.
The point is that the script of life is sometimes also disjointed, incoherent, magical, strange and even dreamlike (even without psychotropics involved). One knows it well Guillaume Musso sailing once more through the bewildering dark waters of the ocean of the soul. Only this time a notion of the most disturbing suspense is highlighted ...
"One day in April, my three-year-old daughter, Carrie, disappeared while the two of us were playing hide and seek in my Brooklyn apartment."
Thus begins the story of Flora Conway, a novelist of great prestige and even greater discretion. No one can explain how Carrie disappeared. The door and the windows of the apartment were closed, the cameras of the old New York building have not captured any intruder. The police investigation is unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, a writer with a shattered heart barricades himself in a ramshackle house. He is the only one who knows the key to the mystery. But Flora is going to unravel it. An unparalleled reading. In three acts and two shots, Guillaume Musso immerses us in an astonishing story whose strength lies in the power of books and in the desire to live of its characters.
The footprint of the night
Reviewed very recently. Everything bad happens at night. Fatality finds its best combination of time and space for the sinister among the chiaroscuros of the moon. If we add a strong blizzard that isolates a French boarding school, we end up creating the perfect scenario for a modern thriller genius like him. Guillaume Musso (one year younger than the other current great Frenchman of the Noir, Franck thilliez) guides us in a disturbing novel from which we can expect anything, based on the background of an author who soon fills his plots with supernatural aspects or slides a romance that offsets the weight of the tragic and the enigmatic.
This time everything happens with a feeling of claustrophobia extended from 1992 to the present. In that past we meet the young Vinca, of exultant youth capable of contemplating life with that perspective of maximum authenticity of what has been lived around love in its version of the noblest desires and ideals. This is how, due to that fatal tendency to subdue all faith in love, poor Vinca disappears into that world folded in on itself between the darkness and the raging storm.
Back in the present day, we find ourselves on the radiant French Riviera, where once young boarding school students come together to celebrate the silver anniversary of their training at that center. We recover our friends Thomas, Maxime and Fanny, all Vinca's companions and adapted to their current reality, rocked in that breath of time that buries dark pasts in consciousness in order to continue living.
In those 25 years, little has changed at the prestigious preparatory school for wealthy young people, except for some expansion work that suddenly exposes them to the crudest of its lies. The old gymnasium is being prepared for demolition, making way for a new building that offers better service for the institution.
Except that those walls wall something more than the gymnasium itself and the three friends will soon have to face that the truth of their darkest decision is a short time from being revealed. And that's when Thomas, Maxime and Fanny must recover that past to face their deepest fears and guilt.
Angelic
The first demon was already an angel disowned by God. In other words, kindness can also give birth to resentment and live in the heat of its fire waiting for revenge. Hence the phrase with which the synopsis of this book begins: Even angels have their demons...
Because if we travel to Paris in the middle of Christmas (or at least we do it to the idealized Paris of love and lights) we expect kindness, a sweet accent and caramel kisses. But contrasts are the harbingers of contradictions. Because every light generates its shadow.
After suffering a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in a hospital room. At his head is an unknown young woman. She is Louise Collange, a student who plays the cello for patients selflessly. Upon finding out that Mathias is a police officer, she asks him to take up a somewhat particular case. Although she resists at first, Mathias ends up agreeing to help her and from that moment on they are both trapped in a deadly chain.
Thus begins an unusual investigation, whose secret lies in the life we would have liked to have, the love we could have known and the place we still hope to find in the world...
Other recommended books by Guillaume Musso ...
You will be there?
The well-known accident from which the author fortunately came out alive led him to write his first novel «And then what ...» which brought us closer to death from that kind portrait of fiction. This novel, in my opinion, is an extension of that existential review of our own life.
At the end of it all, what do we have left? Hopefully, if we grow old, a time of insubstantial cadence and a sum of memories that in the best of cases can take us back to a lost love, because some love is always lost on our way.
This novel delves into those melancholic sensations that most people recover from time to time after a dream with that loved one lost in the mists of time. It all begins in this novel when Elliot accepts a gift from a Cambodian grandfather, in gratitude for having healed his grandson as a doctor.
The gift is some pills with which you can travel back in time. Would you take it if you were entirely happy? Going back to the past can only be wanted to recover a love, trying to keep it up to the present. But that love can end up blinding us to the changes that may end up unleashing ...
At the time I wrote a story that goes around this idea of second options, it was an initiatory story that I published at the age of 20 in an Aragonese publishing house. Today you can read it in ebook if you feel like it for € 1. Is named A second chance...
The angel's call
Chaos theory, the butterfly effect led to the theory of encounters between unknown people... What can lead two strangers to a chance collision at an airport? The sum of decisions of one person and another from the moment they wake up that day until they impact each other in their absent-minded walk are exponentially probabilities leading to them never seeing each other.
And yet, they do it, they even collide, perhaps like magnets. It's about Madeline and Jonathan, who end up getting dirty over a simple soda and a sandwich, like a cafeteria gunfight. In the hubbub and confusion they end up exchanging cell phones.
When they realize the change, they both delve into each other's intimacy to end up discovering that perhaps nothing was so coincidental. A novel that finally takes another unpredictable turn. What pointed to a romance sweetened by that magical impact of chance or destiny, ends up heading towards an unimagined suspense that will compose a disconcerting narrative at times but always magnetic.
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