Le regard du ventriloque

 

Dear Paul,
I love your book, which I have read twice. It is different, like yourself and your wonderland residence. It succeeds in disturbing our placid existence, like I suspect you set out to do. You quote some heavy hitters, but the book is really you, the real Paul.. Thank you for your life.

 

Dear Paul,
Congratulatuions on your wonderful book, a fine French/Irish stew of philosophy, speculation and reminiscence! (...)

 

(...) You have a wonderful style of writing and it really is a pleasure to read the thoughts and ideas of one who is not only so learned and intelligent, but also very sensitive and creative.(...)

 

(...) Your book is reflective, philosophical, insightful, and sometimes funny. I hope many people enjoy it.

 

Just to let you know that I am enjoying very much reading your book(...)

 

I just finished reading your book. It was marvellous, touching, very funny/witty and very moving. You have give me a sense of peace that is alright to be a "black sheep", and not to want to adhere to policies that others adhere or advise one to.(...)

 

I just finished "The eye of the ventriloquist" by Paul Chatenoud... Wonderful... I recommend it

 

We have both read your book. It is among the best books we have ever read, and we have been very inspired by it. I have ordered a copy for a friend, and will recommend it to many other people.

 

I loved your book. It takes me back to 'The Green gate'. And whenever the world seems to be a crazy place, I go back to 'The eye of the ventriloquist' to regain my sanity! 'The Green gate' is an oasis of peace, heaven and 'reality' in our 'crazy' world, and your book has the same effect. Thank God for Paul Chatenoud.

 

I like your book very much. It is a book written by a man who has been through a lot, who experienced all kind of things and it is a book who teaches us how to be more tolerant. And I could feel Ireland, France, Morocco and the whole world in it! I read it on the evenings: It was like a ritual learning on various topics. I enjoy very much reading it. Thank you.

 

Madam,
I just finish the book of Paul Chatenoud : What a treat. I recommend it at everybody around me. Thank you for publish it.

 

Your book is always on my bedside. My partner tells me she never sees me so captivated by a book. I really love your writings, your humour and yours ideas: : a real treat! Congratulations.

 

Your book has been read,re-read and borrowed by my production manager. I absolutely loved it-hilarious, thought-provoking, insightful, brilliantly written and so many others things. Thank you very much.

 

(...) Your book is excellent, funny and engaged, clever and true. It is a work of a freeman, I don’t know many.

 

(...) would like to thank you for your writing, and hope you will give us more enjoyable and caustic outbursts.

 

(...) Thank you Paul Chatenoud, for having us laugh and think.

 

(...) I took great pleasure in reading these pages, full of life, of humour, of strength , and very often of pertinence.(...)

 

(...) I have enjoyed reading your book, your cool relaxed vision, and your sidelong glance with a funny distance (...)

 

(...) I appreciate your view on the world and your erudition which put your thoughts at a distance, your dark irony, the description s of the countryside, the stormy sky and the Donegal people, who still have a soul.

 

Thank you for your book which takes us out of the beaten tracks. Your analysis of many different subjects, give me a new light and a new perspective that I had never thought of (Your explanation about falling in love at first sight, the unknown spiritual father, the historical analysis of the American mentality,etc...) (...) Thank you for this Essay, which hits the bull's eye, and for your style loose and firm at the same time, which puts things back to their real place.

 

(...) What I like in your book is a strong spirit from the heart, and your judgements always warmly expressed.

 

Cher Paul
First my respect to the author who succeded in writing such a book(…) Ilove the questions and the doubts, but mainly the way you surpass them in loving people and life(…) I must admit this book has made me feel good.

 

Aux Editions Les Cygnes

Madam,
I have read again «Le Regard du ventriloque », taking my time and taking notes for my greatest pleasure. Here is a man who decripts the sidelines of our contemporary world and the grace we can find,with greece and its philosophers for escort, and all that for the inexperience people as well as for the well read, What an elegance ! But here we are, without thinking of it, between the anecdotes and encounters most delicious and crazies, mister ‘Paul’ shoot as well with real bullets and it is dead on ! His opinion of Americans is an hallucination of truth. The wrong doing of the feminists and his passion for the relationship between mens and womens, not to mention the rich psychology of his experience.(…) As for his anecdotes, they are matters of reflexion about a ‘certain art de vivre’ ; or at least to live your own life in front of the dangers and surprises from everywhere.(…) There is in this man, a side of an old chinese wiseman, who after many difficulties, give us with humour a true message of love and friendship and a desire to LIVE. Please thank him for all the nice metaphysics running along these pages and for this ode to life without concessions.

 

(...) An intellectual book that you read easily thanks to his humour                                             

 

(...) You will find in this book the key of the true fidelity to things and to people, the freedom to be youself with its best and its worst, without culpability

 

(...) the eye of the ventriloquist is the door of the soul. We cannot forget yours. (…) And the Irish people we meet in your book have a way to look from the heart that has touch me very much.

 

(...)Your book is full of strong perceptions and lived experiences coming from the gut of the human being that you are.(…) No armure(but ironic distance), No make-up, no gloves, but immense love of life.

 

Aux Editions Les Cygnes

(...)This book made me think a lot and stay in my mind. (...) To be kept nearby to open from time to time- very good therapy !

 

(...)I read your book for the third time ! It is now my bedside book.

 

(...)Difficult to talk in a few lines about all the emotions provoked by your book(...) Among the numerous sentences that I would like to impregnate myself, one touch me very much : ‘the path of life is not under control but must be accepted’. Then last but not least what an homage to my country,Ireland. We feel that you have it in your gut, that you love its culture, its traditions, the straight generosity without interest of the Irish people. « Gura mile math agath » (Mille mercis à vous). I hope my compatriots will be as sensitive to it as I was !

 

(...)It is a funny and melancholic diary ,of a true man, rebel and brave. We keep always with yourself this book engaged and clever, who in a big laugh sweep away the grieved emotions and his anger ready to burst.

 

(...)when I finished your book, I feel what we feel at the end of a magic movie : the silence !

 

(...)Paul Chatenoud, a healer of soul that we would like to keep with us.

 

(...)This book is to be read often, when you have lost the enthousiasm and the joy of life.

 

(...)What I like in your book is your free spirit and your capacity to be detached of the material world.

 

(...)You don’t take yourself seriously when you explain serious and deep thoughts of our lives. Thanks for that.

 

A delight of "our language", to be relish and to be read mainly between the lines.