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Chargement... The Prospector (édition 2008)par J. M. G. Le Clézio, Carol Marks (Traducteur), Paul Gauguin (Artiste de la couverture)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe Chercheur d'or par Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Barbier-Jean-Marie-Gustave-Le-Clezio-Le-Chercheur... Le style de Le Clezio s'impose avec lenteur au début de l'ouvrage, mais c'est avant tout par nécessité. Si la fin de l'œuvre nous émeut tant, c'est bien grâce au récit préalable d'une enfance insouciante. En ce sens, Le Clezio est un magicien : il parvient à nous faire passer en quelques heures par plusieurs états : celui de l'enfant impatient jusqu'à celui de l'adulte nostalgique et perdu à la recherche de son passé. Avec une progression temporelle qui nous rappelle immanquablement notre vécu personnel. Prodigieux. "Du plus loin que je me souvienne, j'ai entendu la mer." Alors l'enfant raconte la mer qui roule depuis la nuit des temps contre la barrière de corail au large de son île Maurice natale. Il dit aussi la terre rouge et sèche, les feuilles coupantes des cannes à sucre, les heures passées en haut de l'arbre Chalta à écouter la nuit. Comme beaucoup de romans de Le Clézio, Le Chercheur d'or est d'abord un poème, un hymne à la beauté, aux éléments et à la vie. C'est aussi l'histoire d'Alexis et de sa soeur Laure, qui subissent le rêve fou de leur père : retrouver l'or du Corsaire, caché à Rodrigues. Mais l'or est en réalité en chacun de nous, ne demandant qu'à mûrir loin des utopies et des illusions. L'amour, puis la guerre de 14-18 qu'il rejoint en France, initient Alexis à cette vérité.
The Prospector offers a wonderful one-volume compendium of all the grand myths rooted in the European colonial experience, combining elements from Paul et Virginie, Robinson Crusoe, and Indiana Jones. Alexis, known as Ali, and his beloved sister, Laure, live in an Eden nestled on the island of Mauritius. A child drawn to nature, he is nevertheless most enthralled by his father's dreams of a privateer's treasure. Yet this same father's vision of bringing electricity to the island leads to the family's ruin (thanks to a ferocious hurricane, brilliantly described). To recover his family's paradise lost, the adult Ali embarks upon a hunt for the pirate's gold. "I left to put an end to the dream, in order that my life might begin. I am going to take this journey to its conclusion. I know that I will find something." The present tense seems to be more frequently employed by modern French novelists than by their British or American counterparts; but few contemporary writers can have resorted to it so consistently as Le Clézio. Concomitant with his absorption in a continuous present is an impulse to unrestrained extension. "Comme il est long, le temps de la mer!" exclaims the narrator of his latest novel, the Mauritian Alexis L'Estang, resuming his obsessive search for pirate gold in the Indian Ocean on returning from service in the trenches of the First World War. His story begins in 1892, when he is eight, and spans thirty years; yet despite the dates, the novel is in no sense a historical one, but could be most fittingly described as a fable. Its characters are of quasi-archetypal simplicity, and they communicate in dialogue of taciturn breviloquence. Apart from the narrator's abiding but tenuous relationship with his sister Laure, the novel's principal human interest centres on his chastely erotic idyll with Ouma, the young native girl or "manaf" he finds on the island of Rodrigues, to which plans left him by his father have led him in search of a hoard of plundered gold concealed there by a legendary corsair. Prix et récompenses
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister - sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the onstellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the Unknown Corsair. But with his father's death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame. Years later, Alexis has become obsessed with the idea of finding the Corsair's treasure; and through it, the lost magic and opulence of his youth. He abandons job and family, setting off on a quest that will take him from the remote tropical islands to the hell of the First World War, and from a love affair with the mysterious Ouma to a momentous confrontation with the search that has consumed his life. By turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, The Prospector is a 'parable of the human condition' (Le Monde) by one of the most significant literary figures in Europe today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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