The Scream

by Laurent Graff

The Scream starts as sci-fi and ends as a realization that despair can shape the world to the point where it becomes unrecognizable. Through Laurent Graff’s irreproachable style, the reader gets trapped in the painfully poetic world embodied by the empty highway; a metaphor which unfolds until the point where reality becomes stranger and indeed crueler than fiction.

Genres: Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[mark mendoza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful exploration of 'non-places' and the importance of silence and sadness. Read in one setting, with strong coffee....

[Frank Merkx · Rating 4 out of 5]

A guy in a highway toll-booth finds himself in the middle of some sort of apocalypse. The world goes crazy, but he doesn’t seem to be affected/infected. He’s at peace and alters his life. And then he finds a long lost painting. Super crazy story! But the ending was very weird... And the ending kind of ruined things for me.

[Emma Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in one sitting in about an hour. It was really interesting and not like any other dystopia/end of the world book I’ve ever read before. I found the ending confusing but I have been thinking about it a lot since. If you love the painting you’ll probably love this book. I’m neither here nor there on both!

[Andreea · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's 1.5 stars, ok? Because it's not really I didn't like it, but also not it was okay. I just didn't care for it. The ending kinda ruined it for me. It was short and the tone was lovely at times, but...

[Jean-Pascal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Très court, mais assez prenant.

[Sophia Terry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow…

Ok for a short story this was amazing!

I don’t know what to say or think but wow

[Mitch G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

That the world’s noise lovers should finally agree to go insane and die is a welcome turn of events, even if only within the scope of this short novel.

[Isabelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

L'écrin de cette histoire se pose sur les mots et sur la poésie qu'il déclenche dans quelques page. Que l'on aime ou pas, il est agréable de découvrir un style d'écriture nouveau.

[Leather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Voilà ce qu'est Laurent Graff : un grand poète, qui écrit (magnifiquement) en prose des romans qui n'en sont pas vraiment.
Le cri est à mon sens un de ses livres les plus aboutis. Il faut l'aborder comme les autres livres de Graff : ne pas trop se poser de question à la première lecture, se contenter de se laisser porter par le style et les aventures du protagoniste.
Au final, vous découvrirez que la profondeur du livre est inversement proportionnelle à son nombre de page. Comme d'habitude.