Alta Ifland
Auteur de Voice of Ice/ Voix De Glace (Trenchart: Parapet)
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: My photo
Œuvres de Alta Ifland
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- California, USA
- Études
- PhD French lit
- Professions
- writer
- Prix et distinctions
- Louis Guillaume Prize (2008)
Subito Press Prize (2010) - Courte biographie
- Born in Romania; immigrated to the United States in 1991.
Membres
Discussions
Alta Ifland, author of Elegy for a Fabulous World (Oct 20-30) à Author Chat (Octobre 2009)
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 67
- Popularité
- #256,179
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 8
Much of the hour-and-twenty-minute-long film consists of the sounds and images of a truck rumbling through an industrial landscape dotted with dilapidated, immigrant shantytowns. Periodically, the images of the truck are interrupted by cutaways of Marguerite Duras and Gérard Depardieu sitting in Duras’ living room, reading from a script that includes a dialogue between a staunchly communist truck driver and an anonymous, ethnically-unidentifiable woman who stands in as an alter-ego for Duras and at the same time a substitute for “everyone.” Neither of the characters are ever shown on-screen. The truck driver quickly decides the hitchhiker is “a reactionary” suffering some kind of “mental disturbance.” Using the “mad,” uneducated woman (who, is, nevertheless, interested in everything from the position of the earth in the universe to politics to such august personalities as Proust, Corneille and Marx), Duras criticizes the invasion of Prague by the Soviets in 1968 and its support by the French Communist Party.
Note: this book is translated by Alta Ifland and Eireene Nealand--but Amazon and Goodreads failed to list the second translator… (plus d'informations)