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Chargement... The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) (original 2013; édition 2013)par Eleanor Catton
Information sur l'oeuvreLes Luminaires par Eleanor Catton (2013)
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L’écossais Walter Moody franche le seuil du fumoir de la Couronne un soir orageux de 1866, fraichement arrivé sur la rude côte de la Nouvelle-Zélande pour tenter ses chances dans ses mines d’or. Il y retrouve douze hommes taciturnes issues de tous les horizons. Tous cachent des secrets et sont reliés par une série d’évènements mystérieux. Walter embarque dans une nouvelle aventure : résoudra-t-il le casse-tête de l’alcoolique hermétique retrouvé mort avec une immense fortune, la femme retournée en ville pour ouvrir un salon de séance paranormal, le prospecteur bien-aimé disparu et la prostituée qui a tenté se suicider ?
It is complex in its design, yet accessible in its narrative and prose. Its plot is engrossing in own right, but an awareness of the structure working behind it deepens one’s pleasure and absorption. As a satisfying murder mystery, it wears its colours proudly, yet it is not afraid to subvert and critique the traditions and conventions of its genre. Best of all, while maintaining a wry self-awareness about its borrowings and constructions, it is never a cynical novel. At times, it can be unapologetically romantic, in both its narrative content and its attitude towards the literary tradition it emulates. It is a novel that can be appreciated on many different levels, but which builds into a consistent and harmonious whole. Is Ms. Catton’s immense period piece, set in New Zealand, for readers who want to think about what they should be thinking? The book’s astrology-based structure does not exactly clarify anything. Its Piscean quality, she writes in an opening note, “affirms our faith in the vast and knowing influence of the infinite sky.” It’s easy to toss around words like “potential” and “promising” when a young author forges the kind of impression made by Eleanor Catton with her 2009 debut, The Rehearsal, a formally tricky but assured novel that hinged on teacher-student sexual relations. It won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Betty Trask Award, and was a finalist for a handful of other plaudits, including the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for the best work by a writer under the age of 30. Making good on those expectations is another matter. With her ambitious second novel, Catton has accomplished that – and a great deal more. [...] The Luminaries is a novel that can be enjoyed for its engrossing entirety, as well as for the literary gems bestowed on virtually every page. The Luminaries has been perfectly constructed as the consummate literary page-turner. But it is also a massive shaggy dog story; a great empty bag; an enormous, wicked, gleeful cheat. For nothing in this enormous book, with its exotic and varied cast of characters whose lives all affect each other and whose fates are intricately entwined, amounts to anything like the moral and emotional weight one would expect of it. That's the point, in the end, I think, of The Luminaries. It's not about story at all. It's about what happens to us when we read novels – what we think we want from them – and from novels of this size, in particular. Is it worthwhile to spend so much time with a story that in the end isn't invested in its characters? Or is thinking about why we should care about them in the first place the really interesting thing? Making us consider so carefully whether we want a story with emotion and heart or an intellectual idea about the novel in the disguise of historical fiction … There lies the real triumph of Catton's remarkable book. The narrative structure intrigues, moving Rashomon-like between viewpoints and the bounds of each character’s separate sphere of knowledge, without ever losing the reader, various characters playing detective then stepping aside. The novel has many attributes – excellent dialogue, humour, great observation, as when two acquaintances at a party share the same expression:......Catton matches her telling to her 19th-century setting, indulging us with straightforward character appraisals, moral estimations of each character along with old-fashioned rundowns of their physical attributes, a gripping plot that is cleverly unravelled to its satisfying conclusion, a narrative that from the first page asserts that it is firmly in control of where it is taking us. Like the 19th-century novels it emulates, The Luminaries plays on Fortune’s double meaning – men chasing riches, and the grand intertwining of destinies. Contient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
En 1886, Walter Moody, jeune Britannique dsargent, accoste Hokitika, en Nouvelle-Zlande. Dans l'htel qui le loge, douze hommes sont runis pour tenter de faire la lumire sur des vnements tranges qui troublent la communaut depuis quelques semaines: disparitions, morts suspectes, et cetera Une histoire d'amour et de fantmes dans un pays en pleine rue vers l'or.--[Memento]. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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