Modernity considering nature as a purely material substance. She is disillusioned, devoid of any mystery, gods and demons were driven out. Nature has been streamlined and reduced to a few mathematical equations: it is merely a reservoir of raw materials in the service of man who simply exploit it. Entering the Forests of black Romain Verger is enter fully into a singular universe. Romain Verger adopts a pre-scientific perspective, a perspective ancestral animist. As was the case in Big Dipper, the nature, far from being inert, has a soul, and it bustles with energy sometimes positive, often negative: it is a disturbing array, the source of life and death. It feels more as writing Romain Verger, elegant and poetic, emit an odor: it smells of earth and leaves dead and is wet and enjoy nature more than it has disclosed.
The main character of Black Forest is a scientist, a biologist who, away from his university laboratory, has long since forgotten the primal fears of his childhood. He leads a mediocre life, caring for her mother moved in with him since the death of her husband. It is also bland and smooth as sanitized world where even the dead have nothing to worry about. So will he have to remember the strange sensations that seized him when he saw the corpse of his father dressed in his coffin :
"Who was this man stuck to his lips pinched too tightly sewn, hand curled up on her crucifix? He who believed in everything except God. It was the dead Christian, waxy, costume and cravat not to frighten the living. A horrible sham that did not reassure. "
A mission order is unexpected away this modernity artificial University sends his two years in Japan, not in Tokyo or another megalopolis, but Gotenba, a remote village on the edge of the Sea tree Aokigahara Jukai , he must study the vegetation. Sea of Trees is a mysterious forest that even primary satellites can not penetrate. They offer the visitor that the vision of a "coarse patchwork of huge pixels on a dark green blur. " Finally, the equipment needed for his research on site will never be satisfied and the narrator to live there, in the disturbing proximity of the forest:
" Failing to enter - this impressed me by forest its height and density rude - I watched the tops of trees, amused to recognize each species, but it was such a mess of branches and foliage intermingled that I was often puzzled, wondering sometimes if he was not endemic and hybrid varieties. I also gaze swept the sides of the road to try to assess the geological formation. Interesting folds recalled the rash of 864. The forest was born of this lava flow. She drew perhaps his incredible vitality of this substrate magma. "
Surge bowels of the earth where she was cohabiting with hell, this forest emits evil magnetism more than three hundred people commit suicide there every year. His reputation is such that men have ceased to operate for a long time:
"So many loggers had paid with their lives. Most hikers were amazed that it might not and the few that stood out were scarred by the devastation and memories of mutilated corpses that they had encountered. "
In the town where he saw the attraction of the forest is powerful. The only person with whom he was able to bind to (because she speaks English) Hatsu, has lost her husband a few months ago and became his mistress, always seems to live in fear of his return. Natives are also regularly disappear and strange Shintaro, his neighbor, who has two Siamese, spends the day sitting on the doorstep of his house, staring at the forest. The Call of the Wild finally take the narrator who ran through silence with Shintaro. In wards one, reappear Sologne forests of his childhood memories of everything he had tried to forget, especially those concerning Vlad, his schoolmate, his torturer, who will reappear mysteriously intermittently throughout his life to teach him the taste of blood, as was the case during their last meeting, during a hunting party where they confronted the great deer, symbol of life.
Life and death come together in this sea of trees, nightmare in which lurk other nightmares. Romain Verger invites us to go the black forests of our unconscious, populated by ancient fears that lead us to a startling harmony with nature is foreign to us now. The fantastic world of Romain Verger is served by an entry whose sentences seem animated by a life of its own, emerging from each other, like branches of a giant tree.
Note that three news Romain Verger were published in Issue 17 of Face Green. See HERE .
The main character of Black Forest is a scientist, a biologist who, away from his university laboratory, has long since forgotten the primal fears of his childhood. He leads a mediocre life, caring for her mother moved in with him since the death of her husband. It is also bland and smooth as sanitized world where even the dead have nothing to worry about. So will he have to remember the strange sensations that seized him when he saw the corpse of his father dressed in his coffin :
"Who was this man stuck to his lips pinched too tightly sewn, hand curled up on her crucifix? He who believed in everything except God. It was the dead Christian, waxy, costume and cravat not to frighten the living. A horrible sham that did not reassure. "
A mission order is unexpected away this modernity artificial University sends his two years in Japan, not in Tokyo or another megalopolis, but Gotenba, a remote village on the edge of the Sea tree Aokigahara Jukai , he must study the vegetation. Sea of Trees is a mysterious forest that even primary satellites can not penetrate. They offer the visitor that the vision of a "coarse patchwork of huge pixels on a dark green blur. " Finally, the equipment needed for his research on site will never be satisfied and the narrator to live there, in the disturbing proximity of the forest:
" Failing to enter - this impressed me by forest its height and density rude - I watched the tops of trees, amused to recognize each species, but it was such a mess of branches and foliage intermingled that I was often puzzled, wondering sometimes if he was not endemic and hybrid varieties. I also gaze swept the sides of the road to try to assess the geological formation. Interesting folds recalled the rash of 864. The forest was born of this lava flow. She drew perhaps his incredible vitality of this substrate magma. "
Surge bowels of the earth where she was cohabiting with hell, this forest emits evil magnetism more than three hundred people commit suicide there every year. His reputation is such that men have ceased to operate for a long time:
"So many loggers had paid with their lives. Most hikers were amazed that it might not and the few that stood out were scarred by the devastation and memories of mutilated corpses that they had encountered. "
In the town where he saw the attraction of the forest is powerful. The only person with whom he was able to bind to (because she speaks English) Hatsu, has lost her husband a few months ago and became his mistress, always seems to live in fear of his return. Natives are also regularly disappear and strange Shintaro, his neighbor, who has two Siamese, spends the day sitting on the doorstep of his house, staring at the forest. The Call of the Wild finally take the narrator who ran through silence with Shintaro. In wards one, reappear Sologne forests of his childhood memories of everything he had tried to forget, especially those concerning Vlad, his schoolmate, his torturer, who will reappear mysteriously intermittently throughout his life to teach him the taste of blood, as was the case during their last meeting, during a hunting party where they confronted the great deer, symbol of life.
Life and death come together in this sea of trees, nightmare in which lurk other nightmares. Romain Verger invites us to go the black forests of our unconscious, populated by ancient fears that lead us to a startling harmony with nature is foreign to us now. The fantastic world of Romain Verger is served by an entry whose sentences seem animated by a life of its own, emerging from each other, like branches of a giant tree.
Note that three news Romain Verger were published in Issue 17 of Face Green. See HERE .
Romain Verger, Black Forest . Quidam. € 12
Illustration: Deer Cave (Rodellar, Spain).
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