The author follows Alexandre, a very attractive protagonist who loves his fields. Through his sister Caroline, who is studying in Toulouse, he meets a group of anti-nuclear activists, including Constanze, a beautiful, blonde, and smiling woman from East Germany. To see her again, he agrees to supply fertilizer to these dangerous activists. The years pass, with the hardships of farming. Alexandre remains alone and is repeatedly exposed, from afar, to the appearances of the woman he believes to be the love of his life.
Alexandre comprit tout de suite que les parents voulaient parler. A fois de plus le course du boeuf available baissé. The parents come together to take responsibility for their responsibility, and to do so in the same way as the Mural project is imported from the East The conversion of the old communists to the economy of the March, according to the fait d'aimer une Allemande faisait de lui un complice de ces changes.
Serge Joncour, Human Nature
Alexander immediately understood that his parents wanted to talk. The price of beef had fallen again. His parents told him this as if they were holding him somewhat responsible; after all, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was a good thing that the plans to import meat from the East had frightened everyone. It was as if he were behind the conversion of the formerly communist countries to a market economy, as if his love for a German woman made him complicit in these changes.
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"Pour qui rêve de liberté et d'évasion, la vie à la campagne, avec ses grands espaces, semble offrir le milieu le plus propice à une vie sans entraves. Et, pourquoi pas, plus « authentic », tant la nature, avec son rythme et ses saisons, paraît y rester la mesure de toutes les affaires humanes. C'est en tout cas ce que ressent Constanze, this young Allemande de l'Est dont tombe amoureux Alexandre au cours de l'été 1976, dans Human nature, The new novel by Serge Joncour. "(Florence Bouchy, Le Monde) 1This article is written in German and can be found at https://rentree.de. Automatic translations into English and French are available. English, French.
Notes- For those who dream of freedom and escape, life in the countryside, with its wide open spaces, seems to offer the most favorable environment for a life without obstacles. And, why not, more "authentic," since nature, with its rhythms and seasons, seems to remain the measure of all human affairs. At least, that's what Constanze, the young East German woman with whom Alexandre fell in love in the summer of 1976 in *Nature humaine*, the new novel by Serge Joncour, believes.>>>
