Universal Attraction, Paperback Book, By: Mordillat, Gerard

“At the corner of the Meteore Brewery, Bijou reached out to a vast expanse of clinker and rubble where the scrapers had dug a man-made lake. Look!” He said. There was a pair of black-headed gulls on the black water. Two delicate white spots in this sooty land. Suddenly they flew away. Bijou, who wanted nothing, wanted something for the first time. wanted to be a seagull, the one that flew overhead, light, and lost itself in the slate sky. "For the past three or four years, Bijou has been living in a boarding house in Denain, at Bonne Maman's, when his parents come. to research. His father found work in the South, in a refinery, and, with his mother, they want the take them to start a new life, reunite the family, get off to a good start. The announced paradise is not there. No sooner are they installed in a house in the open countryside than the refinery goes on strike and Ppa, monopolized by the struggle, leaves Bijou and Mman in a terrible tete-a-tete without mercy or thank you. The Universal Attraction was first published in 1990. It contains the style and the force which made the success of The Living and the Dead.