Nuage rouge

by Christian Gailly

French

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Brent Legault]

All cats have green eyes.The epigraph is mysterious and attributed to Nabokov but I don't know what it has to do with this short, slight, wispy but appealing novel. Appealing? Well, there is much sarcasm in the narrator's throat and that appeals to me. My cat has blue eyes. Is that what the epigraph is meant to do? To indicate that this narrator is so honestly unreliable that he'll begin his tale with an out and out lie? Perhaps. Perhaps I shouldn't put so much stock in an epigraph. Perhaps I wouldn't if it hadn't been put under Nabokov's pen. If only he'd written the rest of it.