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Chargement... The Night Watchman: Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction (édition 2021)par Louise Erdrich (Auteur)
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Top Five Books of 2020 (137) » 8 plus Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) RaynaPolsky | Apr 23, 2024 |  ) patl | Feb 29, 2024 |  ) ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 | ) rosenmemily | Jan 7, 2024 | Thomas is the night watchman, or security guard, for a relatively new jewel-bearing plant near the reservation. Patrice Paranteau is recent high school graduate working at the jewel-bearing plant to support her mother and younger brother. While Thomas fights for the existence of their Native American community, Patrice journeys to save her sister, Vera, who disappeared after moving to Minneapolis. Meanwhile, a cast of characters in the reservation community explore themes of love, family and exploitation, and bring subtle humor to the story. Following Thomas and Patrice's stories was a delightful treat. This book shares a story that needed to be told, and the beauty of Erdrich's prose, along with her deep research and understanding of the topic, do the story justice. This novel is packed full of characters--Wood Mountain, Juggie, Valentine, Barnes, and more--capturing the far-reaching but study definition of family in the reservation community. The prose captures beautiful dream sequences and reservation lore--in particular, the muskrat story will stick with me--that deepen the story. Yet, in the end, The Night Watchman left me wanting more. I wished for more of Vera's story, which felt cut abruptly short. I wished for a deeper exploration of Millie and Rose and Zhanaat. Erdrich has begun to develop fascinating characters, and I wish to see them develop even more. This is my first Louise Erdrich novel, and I look forward to reading many more. (  ) cg2020 | Dec 15, 2023 |
Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman is a singular achievement even for this accomplished writer. ... Erdrich, like her grandfather, is a defender and raconteur of the lives of her people. Her intimate knowledge of the Native American world in collision with the white world has allowed her, over more than a dozen books, to create a brilliantly realized alternate history as rich as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The Night Watchman arrives in the midst of an impassioned debate over how American citizenship should be defined. As the author writes in an afterword: “If you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.” Louise Erdrich is one of our era’s most powerful literary voices. Whether writing of love, enmity, or ambition, her descriptions feel resonant, yet arresting in their originality. Her portraits of reservation life in the northern Midwest also make her one of this generation’s most important Native American writers. Erdrich’s fictional communities are characterized by intense and ambivalent relationships – of lovers, rivals, and mothers and daughters. Rather than centering on an individual or a single family, she creates networks of families, emphasizing their interrelatedness, their shared past, and the land they inhabit, building a compelling alternative world – one that is always under siege. ... We need more of these stories that recount collective resistance and the small victories that can accompany it, while also recognizing the toll they take (economically, physically, emotionally) on individuals and communities. There’s a need, too, to be more honest about the way our country’s policies have negatively affected generations of Native Americans. “The Night Watchman” may be set in the 1950s, but the history it unearths and its themes of taking a stand against injustice are every bit as timely today. The Night Watchman is indeed historical, thoroughly researched, rich with cultural and topical detail. However, what engages the reader most deeply are Erdrich’s characters: people, ghosts, even animals. As for the human cast, some of them are directly involved in responding to the legislative threat; others just live their complicated, difficult lives. ... Both the story of the tribe and the story of the individual family plumb grim history and circumstances, but the novel is neither grim nor a lament. Rather, it is a tale of resistance, courage, and love prevailing against the odds. Some readers may question such optimism and hope and doubt the tentative, nuanced resolutions achieved by the tribe and Thomas’ family. But any reader in this present, dark winter of 2020 open to reminders of what a few good people can do will find The Night Watchman bracing and timely. The author ... delivers a magisterial epic that brings her power of witness to every page. High drama, low comedy, ghost stories, mystical visions, family and tribal lore — wed to a surprising outbreak of enthusiasm for boxing matches — mix with political fervor and a terrifying undercurrent of predation and violence against women. For 450 pages, we are grateful to be allowed into this world. ... In this era of modern termination assailing us, the book feels like a call to arms. A call to humanity. A banquet prepared for us by hungry people. Erdrich ends the book, in the afterword’s closing, with a kind of blessing: “If you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change … let this book give you heart.” ... modern realism and Native spirituality mingle harmoniously in Erdrich’s pages without calling either into question. ... This tapestry of stories is a signature of Erdrich’s literary craft, but she does it so beautifully that it’s tempting to forget how remarkable it is. Chapter by chapter, we encounter characters interrelated but traveling along their own paths. ... Expecting to follow the linear trajectory of a mystery, we discover in Erdrich’s fiction something more organic, more humane. Like her characters, we find ourselves “laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.” Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
PRIX PULITZER 2021Dakota du Nord, 1953. Thomas Wazhashk, veilleur de nuit dans l'usine de pierres d'horlogerie proche de la r©♭serve de Turtle Mountain, n'est pas pr©·s de fermer l'oeil. Il est d©♭termin©♭ © lutter contre le projet du gouvernement f©♭d©♭ral cens©♭ ℗± ©♭manciper ℗ les Indiens, car il sait bien que ce texte est en r©♭alit©♭ une menace pour les siens.Contrairement aux autres jeunes employ©♭es chippewas de l'usine, Pixie, la ni©·ce de Thomas, ne veut pour le moment ni mari ni enfants. Press©♭e de fuir un p©·re alcoolique, insensible aux sentiments du seul professeur blanc de la r©♭serve comme © ceux d'un jeune boxeur indien, elle br© le de partir © Minneapolis retrouver sa soeur a©ʼn©♭e, dont elle est sans nouvelles.Pour ℗± celui qui veille ℗ , n'ayant de cesse d'©♭crire aux s©♭nateurs dans le but d'emp©®cher l'adoption de la loi, quitte © se rendre lui-m©®me © Washington, comme pour Pixie, qui entreprend le premier voyage de sa jeune existence, un long combat commence. Il va leur r©♭v©♭ler le pire, mais aussi le meilleur de la nature humaine.Inspir©♭e par la figure de son grand-p©·re maternel, qui a lutt©♭ pour pr©♭server les droits de son peuple, Louise Erdrich nous entra©ʼne dans une aventure humaine peupl©♭e de personnages inoubliables. Couronn©♭ par le prix Pulitzer, ce majestueux roman consacre la place unique qui est la sienne dans la litt©♭rature am©♭ricaine contemporaine. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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