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Le dernier homme (2003)

par Margaret Atwood

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Séries: MaddAddam Trilogy (1)

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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.… (plus d'informations)
  1. 281
    Le meilleur des mondes. Retour au meilleur des mondes par Aldous Huxley (daby)
  2. 242
    Fahrenheit 451 par Ray Bradbury (andja)
  3. 201
    La servante écarlate par Margaret Atwood (smiteme)
  4. 203
    Le Temps du déluge par Margaret Atwood (haeji, lahni)
  5. 141
    Auprès de moi toujours par Kazuo Ishiguro (readerbabe1984)
  6. 196
    La Route par Cormac McCarthy (goodiegoodie)
  7. 154
    Sa Majesté des Mouches par William Golding (PghDragonMan)
  8. 112
    Le Fléau par Stephen King (PghDragonMan)
    PghDragonMan: What happens when the experiment is unleashed?
  9. 91
    Un cantique pour Leibowitz par Walter M. Miller Jr. (Oct326, goodiegoodie)
    Oct326: Both post-apocalyptic novels, Atwood's one is satyric and sarcastic, and skilfully projects some trends of current society in a not-too-far future, suggesting that they can lead us to catastrophe; while Miller's one is very sad, even tragic, deeply pessimistic about humanity, which it describes as inherently stupid and evil, and inevitably bound to repeat its mistakes and destroy itself.… (plus d'informations)
  10. 70
    1984 par George Orwell (Valari2)
    Valari2: It's another take of where the future might take us.
  11. 60
    L'Île du docteur Moreau par H. G. Wells (mcenroeucsb)
  12. 50
    Nous autres par Yevgeny Zamyatin (themephi)
  13. 30
    Memory of Water par Emmi Itäranta (amsee)
  14. 41
    MaddAddam par Margaret Atwood (Philosofiction)
  15. 31
    Pure par Julianna Baggott (eenerd)
  16. 20
    Soleil vert (Futurama) par Harry Harrison (schmindie_kid)
  17. 21
    Le Testament de Jessie Lamb par Jane Rogers (wonderlake)
  18. 10
    Les Fils de l'homme par P. D. James (sturlington)
  19. 10
    Au nord du monde par Marcel Theroux (julie10reads)
  20. 11
    The Companions par Sheri S. Tepper (espertus)

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Thought-provoking look at our world in fast forward. I enjoyed the way the author spliced the narrative with Snowman's flashbacks. ( )
  misterysun | Feb 27, 2023 |
I found it to be masterful storytelling, and from the publisher's blurbs in the back matter I can see I have much more Attwood in my future. Alas, most of the other books listed seem to be dystopias (as this one is). I'd love to see her write something more hopeful. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
It was hard to put a star rating to this book because the writing was excellent and the premise fantastic but I was mostly bored throughout. I can't even put my finger on why I wasn't engaged but I wasn't. It's a shame, too, because craft-wise it's really quite good. ( )
  sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |
Atwood is a masterful storyteller. I loved Snowman and I enjoyed the way the narrative slowly divulged the details that lead to the present day. I was hooked from the beginning. ( )
  TRBurns76 | Dec 27, 2022 |
The trouble with Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction is that you can see that it could happen. While her scenario in this seems provocative, the tale of how Jimmy/Snowman arrives in this predicament is entirely logical and doesn't need a massive leap of faith anywhere. It manages to be chilling and yet leaves you with a degree of hope in the end.
Trying to describe this further is futile. it's excellent, read it. ( )
  Helenliz | Dec 9, 2022 |
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Oryx and Crake is a piece of dystopian fiction written from the point of Snowman (known as Jimmy in his former life) – the last human left on Earth. At least, he believes he’s the last human left on Earth until the end of the book.

I found the parts of the book describing Snowman’s journey to Paradice (the dome in the compound where Crake did his work) to be a lot less interesting than his recollections of his previous life as Jimmy. I loved reading about how Jimmy and Crake met, the little signs that Crake gave off as to what he might be planning and the direction his thoughts might take in the future (though Jimmy didn’t recognize these until it was too late), etc.

Crake is really the star of the show in this book in my mind – Jimmy simply acts as a vessel for us to learn about a character who is dead and who therefore cannot teach us about himself.

Snowman’s adventures in real time seem almost pointless to me. Why not dedicate the whole book to Jimmy’s friendship with Crake, with just a bit of general explanation as to what’s going on now? I think the present would have been much more interesting if the Crakers were explored more than Jimmy’s struggle to survive and come to grips with what Crake had done.

On the whole, however, I thought it was a great book.
 
Set sometime in the future, this post-apocalyptic novel takes scientific research in the hands of madmen to its logical and frightening conclusion. Inspiring readers to pay more attention to the world around them, Atwood offers cautionary notes about the environment, bioengineering, the sacrifice of civil liberties, and the possible loss of those human values which make life more than just a physical experience. As the novel opens, some catastrophe has occurred, effectively wiping out human life. Only one lonely survivor and a handful of genetically altered humanoids remain, and they are slowly starving as they try to adjust to their changed circumstances.
ajouté par stephmo | modifierMostly Fiction, Mary Whipple (May 28, 2004)
 
In Margaret Atwood's first attempt at writing a novel, the main character was an ant swept downriver on a raft. She abandoned that book after the opening scene and became caught up in other activities, which she has described as ''sissy stuff like knitting and dresses and stuffed bunnies.'' That certainly does not sound like Ms. Atwood, who is known for the boldness of her fiction. Of course she was only 7 at the time.
ajouté par stephmo | modifierNew York Times, Mel Gussow (Jun 24, 2003)
 
Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took pains to fire off several novels in a row featuring weak, manipulative, dishonest and outright bad women, partly to prove that her skepticism was distributed fairly. She has always been of the opinion that people are a mixed bag of the occasionally decent and the frequently mendacious and that there's not much anyone can do to change that fact.
ajouté par stephmo | modifierSalon.com, Laura Miller (May 27, 2003)
 
Genetic tinkering. Rampant profiteering. A deadly virus that sweeps the globe. Are these last Tuesday's headlines or our future?

In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, the answer is both. For Atwood, our future is the catastrophic sum of our oversights. It's a depressing view, saved only by Atwood's biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling.
ajouté par stephmo | modifierUSA Today, Jackie Pray (May 26, 2003)
 

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“Your friend is intellectually honorable,” Jimmy’s mother would say. “He doesn’t lie to himself.”
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When did the body first set out on its own adventures? Snowman thinks; after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul, for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel or else a puppet acting out their dramas for them, or else bad company, leading the other two astray. — 4: Brainfrizz ~ 85
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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

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