Estaunie's Vie secrete, Blanzat's Faussaire

Estaunie's Vie secrete is a soap opera about obsession, set in a town with secrets and builds its intrigue around a strike and arson of a factory. Blanzat's Faussaire is a most unusual and effective novel, whose pages were so tragic I almost didn't want to turn. It has the plot of the play Our Town, i.e. dead people are granted a wish by the devil to return to life: a little girl to find she's not wanted, an old man to find he died in an insane asylum and is feared by his grandson, a sexually obsessed man to find he is hunted once again for murdering a woman, a grandmother who finds her son drinks secretly, as she did. Very quick read, simple vocabulary, style and structure, but with a slight pretension. Without the pretension, the novel would have been greater.