Press Review
Le Regard du Ventriloque de Paul Chatenoud (Les Cygnes)
It is an iconoclast book like its title, and inclassifiable like its author, who is probably not the type of man who like to be labelled. (…) Worth reading.
Full article in French here
It is an iconoclast book like its title, and inclassifiable like its author, who is probably not the type of man who like to be labelled. (…) Worth reading.
Full article in French here
| J.C. |  (600 000 examplaires) |
Wednesday 8th July 2009 Paris |
Le Regard du Ventriloque
Tobacco and friendship, whiskey and humour, poetry and love : the charm of life, whispered like a secret ;(…)
Tobacco and friendship, whiskey and humour, poetry and love : the charm of life, whispered like a secret ;(…)
| B. Siné |  |
Wednesday 15th July 2009 Paris |
OUR FAVORITE AMONGST THE LATEST BOOKS
Creator of the first music bookshop in Paris, Paul Chatenoud talks with emotion and virulence about life, when ones takes care and time to look at it from a higher level(…)
Creator of the first music bookshop in Paris, Paul Chatenoud talks with emotion and virulence about life, when ones takes care and time to look at it from a higher level(…)
| Hubert Féret |  (300 000 examplaires) |
Thursday 24th September 2009 Lille (France) |
THE BOOK OF A FREEMAN
(...) The red broken thread which paul Chatenoud delivers without fear, and never showing off, that every freeman could read at night, sure to fall asleep with a smile.(...)
(...) The red broken thread which paul Chatenoud delivers without fear, and never showing off, that every freeman could read at night, sure to fall asleep with a smile.(...)
| François Bussac |  |
24th October 2009 Haute Vienne |
« Le regard du ventriloque »
(…) A way to dream your life as you dream of it, without pretending. Yes . It must be somewhere near Ardara .
Ardara ? The end of the world, far west of Donegal (Ireland). So beautiful and romantic, that Paul Chatenoud, parisian philosopher and music lover, settle there : in an authentic old tached cottage. From his window overlooking the ocean and the clouds he meets all kind of people with his « eye of ventriloquist ». That is to say with tenderness, causticity and self-mockery. And with this « happiness », which is for him a grief that rests.
(…) A way to dream your life as you dream of it, without pretending. Yes . It must be somewhere near Ardara .
Ardara ? The end of the world, far west of Donegal (Ireland). So beautiful and romantic, that Paul Chatenoud, parisian philosopher and music lover, settle there : in an authentic old tached cottage. From his window overlooking the ocean and the clouds he meets all kind of people with his « eye of ventriloquist ». That is to say with tenderness, causticity and self-mockery. And with this « happiness », which is for him a grief that rests.
| P. Littérature |  (250.000 examplaires) |
3rd November 2009 Lyon |
Paul Chatenoud se livre
LE REGARD DU VENTRILQUE is an essay, written by a Frenchman living in Ireland : « This book is excellent, funny and engaged. It is a book of a freeman. , I don’t know many », according to the philosopher Michel Onfray.(…)
Full article in French
LE REGARD DU VENTRILQUE is an essay, written by a Frenchman living in Ireland : « This book is excellent, funny and engaged. It is a book of a freeman. , I don’t know many », according to the philosopher Michel Onfray.(…)
Full article in French
| Jacques Béal |  (100 000 examplaires) |
12th Novemberr 2009 Amiens |
Essai / Paul Chatenoud
Paul Chatenoud, far away but not from this world he observes with an ironic detachment : ‘the eye of the ventriloquist’(…) we should always keep his book nearby and have a drop of it when you get the blues. His shoutings are enjoyable(...)
Full article in French
Paul Chatenoud, far away but not from this world he observes with an ironic detachment : ‘the eye of the ventriloquist’(…) we should always keep his book nearby and have a drop of it when you get the blues. His shoutings are enjoyable(...)
Full article in French
| Claude Keiflin |  (200 000 examplaires) |
15th November 2009 Strasbourg, Alsace |
« L’humeur vagabonde »
(...)I took a great pleasure to read thoses pages full of life, humour, strenght and pertinence(...)
(...)I took a great pleasure to read thoses pages full of life, humour, strenght and pertinence(...)
| Kathleen Evin |  |
16th November 2009 Paris |
OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
(...) Well read and funny, Paul Chatenoud has left Paris for the human warmth of the Irish people, and the lost part of Donegal where curious people are queing to meet him. The thoughts and shoutings of Paul, a real freeman, have to be read before to go to sleep at the green gate. This is a book so much invigorating.
(...) Well read and funny, Paul Chatenoud has left Paris for the human warmth of the Irish people, and the lost part of Donegal where curious people are queing to meet him. The thoughts and shoutings of Paul, a real freeman, have to be read before to go to sleep at the green gate. This is a book so much invigorating.
| Claire Moreau Rédactrice en chef |
 (110 000 examplaires) |
16th December 2009 Amiens |
Paul Chatenoud : Le regard du ventriloque
With humour and exasperation, Paul Chatenoud honours the philosophers who have help him to stand up.
With humour and exasperation, Paul Chatenoud honours the philosophers who have help him to stand up.
| Colette David |  (800 000 examplaires) |
3rd January 2010 Rennes |
IRLANDE
(...)Paul Chatenoud is a rare character, humble and rich spirit(...) In his book, I laugh a lot of his hysterics Americans customers.(...)
(...)Paul Chatenoud is a rare character, humble and rich spirit(...) In his book, I laugh a lot of his hysterics Americans customers.(...)
| D. Identité |  |
28th January 2010 Paris |
PAUL CHATENOUD, A PECULIAR VENTRLOQUIST
(...) From the first page, we are stricken by his own style, very free, the one of a man who refuses the ready-made judgements. His life, off the beaten track, with a passion for literature and his own dreams.(...)
(...) From the first page, we are stricken by his own style, very free, the one of a man who refuses the ready-made judgements. His life, off the beaten track, with a passion for literature and his own dreams.(...)
| Marie Claude Pinto |  |
2nd March 2010 Saône et Loire (France) |
The things of life : the one we cannot see or we don’t want to see (...)
| Jean Bonnaterre |  |
12th March 2009 Aveyron (France) |
Le Regard du Ventriloque
(...)From his gut and his experience, he shout at this society which wants to forbid everything (...) A lesson of life to be read and read again.
(...)From his gut and his experience, he shout at this society which wants to forbid everything (...) A lesson of life to be read and read again.
| Florence de Riberolles |  |
Avril - Mai 2010 Normandy (France) |
A FRENCHMAN IN IRELAND A WANDERING SPIRIT
In the forward of his book, Paul Chatenoud thanks Homer, Montaigne, Freud, Proust, Lacan and Brassens Who show him the path of the wandering life
. (...) It would have been a pity to miss such a character, Paul Chatenoud is not a ordinary man. He has been living for twenty five years in the wild north-western part of Ireland. In his cottage, he welcomes people from different countries, and during the long delayed breakfast, he practises the art of Socrates’ maïeutique: to give birth to the thoughts which lie deep in everyone. This morning, end of march, it was Stephen Plunkett and his wife who were sharing breakfast with us, among the twenty different famous homemade jams and marmelade. Plunkett? An historic name in Ireland. Stephen is the grand-nephew of Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter uprising, at the Geat Post Office in Dublin, and one of the writer of the declaration of Independance of the Irish Republic, and shot by the British.
- ‘Before being a revolutionary, my great-uncle was a poet’. Stephen told us while eating his eggs and bacon.
- ‘Poets are all revolutionaries, because they start to jostle the established order of the words’. Answers Paul Chatenoud with philosophy.
(...) The best compliments he received is when readers write to him about his book : « I never think of that from that angle. »
Full article here
In the forward of his book, Paul Chatenoud thanks Homer, Montaigne, Freud, Proust, Lacan and Brassens Who show him the path of the wandering life
. (...) It would have been a pity to miss such a character, Paul Chatenoud is not a ordinary man. He has been living for twenty five years in the wild north-western part of Ireland. In his cottage, he welcomes people from different countries, and during the long delayed breakfast, he practises the art of Socrates’ maïeutique: to give birth to the thoughts which lie deep in everyone. This morning, end of march, it was Stephen Plunkett and his wife who were sharing breakfast with us, among the twenty different famous homemade jams and marmelade. Plunkett? An historic name in Ireland. Stephen is the grand-nephew of Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter uprising, at the Geat Post Office in Dublin, and one of the writer of the declaration of Independance of the Irish Republic, and shot by the British.
- ‘Before being a revolutionary, my great-uncle was a poet’. Stephen told us while eating his eggs and bacon.
- ‘Poets are all revolutionaries, because they start to jostle the established order of the words’. Answers Paul Chatenoud with philosophy.
(...) The best compliments he received is when readers write to him about his book : « I never think of that from that angle. »
Full article here
| Claude Keiflin | (200 000 examplaires) |
25th April 2010 Strasbourg |
BOOK REVIEW
The eye of the ventriloquist by Paul Chatenoud (translated from the French by Allaye O'Connor)
Paul Chatenoud is an absolute and unyielding contrarian. He is the very antithesis of the French bureaucrat. His thoughts range far and wide, from the shallows to the deeps. His defiant view of life has remained with him ever since his military service.(...)
Paul has been a genuine culturel bohemian all his life, which is what makes his book such fun , a great read. (...) He has many deep thoughts about the state of the world and condemns all the modern day "thought police" who try to control what people do (like stopping them smoking) (...)
It is an engaged book, plenty of serious stuff, and plenty of good questions throughout his work.
The eye of the ventriloquist by Paul Chatenoud (translated from the French by Allaye O'Connor)
Paul Chatenoud is an absolute and unyielding contrarian. He is the very antithesis of the French bureaucrat. His thoughts range far and wide, from the shallows to the deeps. His defiant view of life has remained with him ever since his military service.(...)
Paul has been a genuine culturel bohemian all his life, which is what makes his book such fun , a great read. (...) He has many deep thoughts about the state of the world and condemns all the modern day "thought police" who try to control what people do (like stopping them smoking) (...)
It is an engaged book, plenty of serious stuff, and plenty of good questions throughout his work.
| Hugh Oram |  |
10th of June 2010 Dublin |
LAUGHTER AND DEEP THINKING IN ARDARA
"The eye of the ventriloquist" is a delightful compilation of observations on every day life. It is by turns bitingly funny, quietly reflective, deeply philosophical and always as endearingly quirky as the man himself.(...)
If you have been lucky enough to have met Paul, with that characteristic mischievous twinkle in his eyes, you will know that he is an iconoclast through and through.
"The eye of the ventriloquist" is a delightful compilation of observations on every day life. It is by turns bitingly funny, quietly reflective, deeply philosophical and always as endearingly quirky as the man himself.(...)
If you have been lucky enough to have met Paul, with that characteristic mischievous twinkle in his eyes, you will know that he is an iconoclast through and through.
| Sue Doherty |  |
17th of June 2010 Ireland |
ALL HUMAN LIFE STARTS IN ARDARA
Paul Chatenoud left Paris for the human warmth of the Irish people. From his window overlooking the ocean, and which provides an opening on the world, he meets all kinds of people with his " eye of ventriloquist".
Paul Chatenoud left Paris for the human warmth of the Irish people. From his window overlooking the ocean, and which provides an opening on the world, he meets all kinds of people with his " eye of ventriloquist".
| Harry Walsh |  |
18th of June 2010 Ireland |
A garden for the soul
(translated from italian)
The success of "the eye of the ventriloquist" (Lo sguardo del ventriloquist), now translated in English, can be understood by the ability of Paul Chatenoud to look at life from inside. As he did when he dicovered an old derilected cottage, and bought it the day after. This decision, perhaps unconscious, is in fact very coherent with the attitude of mind of the philosopher-writer.
(translated from italian)
The success of "the eye of the ventriloquist" (Lo sguardo del ventriloquist), now translated in English, can be understood by the ability of Paul Chatenoud to look at life from inside. As he did when he dicovered an old derilected cottage, and bought it the day after. This decision, perhaps unconscious, is in fact very coherent with the attitude of mind of the philosopher-writer.
| Gaetano Zoccali |  |
1st of July 2010 Italy |
MORE THAN MEETS THE OUTSIDER'S EYE
A CLASSIC REBEL EXAMINES IRELAND,LOVE,ALCOOL...
(Translation by Allaye 0'Connor)
"I am often thought of as being a lucky man" says Paul Chatenoud in his new book "The eye of the ventriloquist".It is not the case. Luck is an attitude toward something we want accompanied by perseverance.(...) Written by a self-confessed, incurable 'black sheep', it is also an homage to free thinking(...) It is from his wonderful vantage point overlooking the Atlantic, that he cast his beady eye over Ireland.(...) But perhaps the more valuable part of his book comes in describing what Philip Larkin called 'The life with an Hole in it' : 'The Crater'.
'At times, I am taken for a seducer. They are mistaken. It is only the eye of the ventriloquist that they see'.
(1.031.000 readers)
A CLASSIC REBEL EXAMINES IRELAND,LOVE,ALCOOL...
(Translation by Allaye 0'Connor)
"I am often thought of as being a lucky man" says Paul Chatenoud in his new book "The eye of the ventriloquist".It is not the case. Luck is an attitude toward something we want accompanied by perseverance.(...) Written by a self-confessed, incurable 'black sheep', it is also an homage to free thinking(...) It is from his wonderful vantage point overlooking the Atlantic, that he cast his beady eye over Ireland.(...) But perhaps the more valuable part of his book comes in describing what Philip Larkin called 'The life with an Hole in it' : 'The Crater'.
'At times, I am taken for a seducer. They are mistaken. It is only the eye of the ventriloquist that they see'.
(1.031.000 readers)
| Adam Alexander |  |
25th of July 2010 Dublin |
