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that was an unexpectedly fantastic read, It left me feeling vaguely anxious, apathetic in a fauxdeep way, and filled with a strange yearning for something that moves at the edge of my comprehension, Most importantly, it was beautifully written and satisfying,

Oh, there's plenty of reason to hate it, For once, nothing happens. A whole lot of little nothings, like expanded Facebook status updates crossed with contemporary poetry, Characters are infuriating and endearing at once for their capacity for casual selfdestruction, Nobody has a drive to accomplish a single thing, Tension emerges like ripples, and crash on the beach of the story without disturbing a single grain of sand,

And yet that, to me, was where the true power of New Tab lies, It's filled with a sort of existential angst that's at once beautiful and scary, both infuriating and profound, I can't say that I rooted for any of the characters or grew to like them, but that was sort of the point, It felt true in a way that we are usually too chaste to acknowledge,

And that greater truth brings me to the lyrical quality of the work, It's really something of a poem in prose, and there were so many arresting images that I would have filled a notebook the size of the novel itself if I had written them all down.
The prose, in its economical yet stunning quality, reminded me a lot of the great sitelinkAmy Hempel, Huge praise, I know, but this book deserves it,

Add to this the fact that the novel talks about an aspect of the videogame industry that you never see behind the glitz and glamour, and that it takes place in a Montreal I immediately recognized on a visceral level, and I was

won over instantly.
I can't wait to read Guillaume Morissette's future works, Le roman de Guillaume Morissette, publié enet salué par la critique, a finalement été traduit et réédité par Boréal, On y lit un parcours initiatique, un vol plané sur la singularité montréalaise, une sorte dÉducation sentimentale où le héros est en quête non pas dascension sociale, mais dun environnement plus humain.
Et ce, quitte à saboter son univers et son compte de banque : Pas besoin dargent, juste besoin de monde, Cest pas largent, la monnaie déchange, ici, cest le monde que tu connais,

Le protagoniste, Thomas, incarne une figure typique du jeune professionnel blasé : complexé et maladroit dans les relations sociales et romantiques, Son auto flagellation, un peu trop insistante Jai eu limpression que ma vie était un désastre, mis à part de bonnes conditions matérielles, laisse aussi place aux éclats dune imagination déjantée : Si je me fiais à létiquette, le vin avait lair convaincu quil avait été produit dans un château.
Lattitude nihiliste et celle dautodérision sont deux faces dune même pièce,

Les personnages, souvent dotés du même humour autoironique, sont le plus grand atout du roman, Le texte fait place à la vraisemblance de leurs commentaires et à la spontanéité de leurs gestes, On reste donc accrochés à cette histoire qui ne se limite pas à une intrigue prévisible pour les lectrices et lecteurs attentifs, Ce qui guide la trame, cest la quête éternelle de Shannon pour une satisfaction passionnelle, les tendances cleptomanes de Cristian, les élans artistiques douteux de Brent, Romy qui change plus vite didée que clignote un stroboscope

On lit et relit Nouvel Onglet pour le portrait proustien de la jeunesse montréalaise éphémère et précaire, du mouvement dune vie sociale exaltée en manque déquilibre.
La lecture est facile et agréable, pour cette histoire qui représente les conversations, les inquiétudes liées au paraître, les enjeux de surface tout de même vitaux, que déconstruit bien lœil perspicace de Thomas.
Publié sur le Webzine Les Méconnus

Guillaume Morissette a publié New tab ence québécois francophone a fait le choix décrire et de publier en anglais, faisant fi des débats linguistiques que cela pourrait soulever.
La traduction française, Nouvel onglet, nous arrive chez Boréal sous lhabile traduction de Daniel Grenier, Et ça savère une lecture bizarrement addictive, Il est difficile de poser le livre quand on en commence la lecture et quon pose les pieds dans ce maelström de remises en questions et dangoisse, On en ressort pourtant un peu perplexe,

Le personnage principal de Nouvel onglet est Thomas, un concepteur de jeux vidéo deans, Il prend des cours de création littéraire à temps partiel même si on ne le voit que rarement écrire et semmerde royalement au travail, Maladroit avec les filles, il est cependant entouré dune faune amicale originale, pour ne pas dire marginale, Le regard quil porte sur le monde est celui de langoissé et de lêtre perpétuellement conscient de lui, Il est plus souvent enclin à examiner ses mouvements et tous ses faits et gestes, En fait, on pourrait le trouver complètement blasé sil nétait pas autant paralysé par le regard des autres, La ligne semble mince pour ce personnage que lon imagine maladroit, difficile dapproche même, tellement toute son appréhension du monde passe par ses propres observations et ce quil en ressent par la suite.
Sur cet aspect, Morissette a poussé lexercice à son extrême, ce qui sert tout à fait au ton parfois étouffant du roman,

À michemin entre le récit et le carnet, le roman sinstalle confortablement dans les pensées du narrateur, qui auraient pu gagner à être plus variées, Parfois, on enfile les remarques et observations sans trop savoir où tout ça nous mènera, Ce nest pas anodin : ça traduit bien un certain travail de réflexion sur cette génération dont fait partie le narrateur, que lon dépeint trop souvent comme étant centrée sur ellemême, mais tout de même, on doute que ce soit pertinent par moment.
Les nombreuses répétitions dans le langage en viennent parfois à ennuyer le lecteur, bien quelles servent à merveille latmosphère dennui et de lassitude, Nouvel onglet demeure un parfait exemple où le fond et la forme saccordent parfaitement, au détriment peutêtre dun plaisir de lecture constant,


En traversant laire des restaurants pour me rendre à mon poste de travail, ça mest soudainement apparu comme une évidence : tout ça était cyclique, On était payés pour se réunir dans un bureau et produire des logiciels qui servent à soutirer de largent aux consommateurs, Disséminés ici et là dans le bâtiment, il y avait des restaurants et des boutiques dont le modèle daffaires sappuyait fortement sur notre décision consciente et répétée de ne pas apporter de lunch au travail.
Ce nétait pas difficile dimaginer les employés des restaurants rentrer à la maison le soir, épuisés après une longue et frustrante journée de travail, jouer à des jeux vidéos sur leur iPhone pour relaxer, ne penser à rien, tout en dépensant leur argent pour des jeux comme on produisait.
I didn't enjoy this book, the characters are very self involved, . . theme is existential angst
Having read New Tab at the suggestion of one of my college professors I'm glad I did, This is a novel for anyone who has ever stared at their computer screens feeling like "the shittiest person alive, " I breezed through it as the writing is simple, funny and engaging, I've read some reviews and can't say that I would argue with any of them, It's like a rambling monologue from someone who is waiting for life to have meaning for him, but doesn't make an effort beyond superficial human connections,
My copy was second hand, and the previous owner wrote at the end of the last paragraph, "conveniently arranged with a beginning, middle, end, incorporating a conflict or two and their resolution.
Yet, towards what end The end itself, Disney characters have more depth, " Sounds like Murakami. Why does that work for him

Maybe you shouldn't overthink it,

Overall, I didn't hate this book, and it seems to be way less problematic for me than many other people, I'm really not sure what to rate this book, Reading it wasn't an unpleasant experience, There were bits I enjoyed, The little random snippets peppered throughout which I'm almost certain were originally tweets, or tweet drafts were mostly amusing or interesting, The story wasn't bad.

The whole thing felt very derivative tho, I feel like I already read this book when it was called Taipei, except the postmodern mechanics of that book were much more conscious, and its ambling purpose felt more intentional.
I'm getting really tired of books that don't have an ending, I feel like this is a trend that is a conscious aggression against metanarratives in excess of a postmodern type, Postmodernism began to deconstruct the metanarrative, and postpostmodernism is stripping parts of it away,

The autobiographical nature of this book alluded to, if not stated expressly was even an element in the story itself, and it made me feel uncomfortable, I'm not sure how I feel about a literary genre where every element is a blog turned into a story, This book made me too upset on a cognitive level to recommend readily, I think, I'm worried about this formula of novel generation on a more global levelthe trend seems to be that the author should engage in life situations that can then be translated into some semblance of a narrative.
The only conflict is natural and emergent, and therefore almost nonexistent, This is a reflexively bleak view of the enterprise of writing as a whole, and it makes me upset and frustrated and sad, I could argue about whether that's the goal of this book, but I didn't want it to make me sad in the way that it did, and even tho I'm aware that no one puts a work of art into the world with the intent to make people dislike it, I feel my reaction is justifiable.


In the process of writing this review, I think I have determined my rating for this book as a two, I feel bad that I am not rating it higher, as the main character, derivative of the author, seemed like a nice person I can sympathize with and that I want to succeed.
I don't feel comfortable with the repercussions a low rating might potentially have on other people's interest in reading this bookbut, I feel committed to expressing myself in the same way the main character did, a la his Faulkner quotation.


I would like to read more of Guillaume Morissette's work, I will probably read his poems next,

I also feel bad because this book was short, and I like short books, I hope the book, and the author, don't dislike me because of what I felt about the book, I'm sorry.fois le mot grimace enpages, Soit il manque de synonymes, soit le traducteur s'est pas forcé,

Assez réaliste, si je repense à mes années étudiantes à Mtl, mais le style "carnet où je jette tout ce à quoi je pense" n'a pas trop pogné avec moi.
I'm new to living in a cosmopolitan city so this was my first time ever reading a novel where two characters might have conceivably walked by my apartment, Making the main character a possibly hammy poet was a clever way for the author to sneak a number of hammy deep thoughts into the story, Great bus read. style vraiment surprenant et intéressant, Ai bien aimé le ton blasé du narrateur, l'histoire décousue de certains personnages, dans lesquelles je retrouvais certaines personnes que je connais, Between this browser tab and the next, it'll take me another three dozen before I get anywhere closer to feeling like I know what I'm looking for,
"Those seemed to be my thoughts and feelings, "

Ah, those final words of the novel, What happens when you don't always get what you want or what you need
A gesture toward being certainly uncertain of a fashionable identity, The epitaph reads, Here lies intimacy issues defined by one's internet browsing history,

Enter NEW TAB, hint for next time round: CMMNDSHFTN

A similar reading experience to scrolling through your newsfeed: pleasantly bored thoughts and feelings, grounded in mildly debasing anxiety and depression.
Is boredom a state of mind A process of becoming The most important emotion that tells you to simply try harder The prose is slightly lifeaffirming, in the most selfloathing way.
A squirrellike tendency to digress, The byproduct of buying all your belongings secondhand and finding all your jobs through Craigslist, Do not pass go. Do not collect.

To sum up Thomas: A quoi pensezvous Perpetual Facebook status updates, Thomas does not pass the 'who gives a fuck' test, His thoughts are interesting but he doesn't seem to be interested, Ever. His emotions are adolescent, easily distilled into a panda emoji, The bleakness of a twitter conversation, watching you watching me watching you, or, a conversation with yourself,

I've cut a lot of lemons in my lifetime, too, Thomas, Thanks for sharing.

Read this if you're into twentysomething nihilistic psyche at its finest, Or if you like making out with cute girls while wondering, 'is everyone else having more sex than me' Or granny smith apples and rolling your eyes, Because that's the closest to happiness and contentment you will get,
I've been reading many of the books that were nominated for the Amazon First novel award this year, This one is a year in the life of a game designer who lives in Montreal, I loved the writing style and found it was quite witty, There's not a lot that happens in this book, but it's quite funny and took me back to Montreal, even though I did not party as much as the people in this book.
The author was able to capture the malaise and uncertainty ofsomethings, Also, great use of Facebook and social media in a New Tab's narrative, The dialogue also felt fresh and inspired and was extremely well done, .