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Chargement... Lovecraft Countrypar Matt Ruff
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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. Excellent book, written well and kept me interested and wanting more throughout. Not really horror like I expected, but still a great story with intriguing characters. ( ) It's different from the HBO series, and significantly enough that I'd consider the two as separate entities. There are several points in the book that aren't present in the series and vice versa. Nonetheless, it was an interesting read. Artistically, I think I prefer the series, to a point. I'm glad I read this to sort of round things out with the other characters in the narrative. Why, oh why did I wait so long to read this book!? The TV series prompted me to finally pick it up. But this is even better than the show. Great characters, great stories, fascinating (and infuriating) historical context. Read this book! [Audiobook note: Listen to this book! Kevin Kenerly is a great narrator!] I started reading this after we watched the HBO series, and while it's only 4 episodes, I do think this is one of the adaptations that builds on the source material in a good way. I think that's because the adaption becomes an #ownvoices story, with Black creators adding nuance and depth to some already solid characters. Ruff does a decent job, as an example of writing outside your experiences because you do the homework to back it up. It does feel a little "I learned about X, gotta mention it", but what this novel does well is combining real life horrors with creeping pulpy horror. The chapters feel like issues of a comic book following different characters, though there is an overarching story. Really solid read, and good addition to a 2020 reading list if you want to add fiction to your nonfiction.
“Lovecraft Country” centers on two African-American families navigating the Jim Crow ’50s. These pages are rife with unwelcoming diner workers, violent lawmen, unwarranted and belittling verbal and physical attacks that are both omnipresent and unrelenting.... At every turn, Ruff has great fun pitting mid-20th-century horror and sci-fi clichés against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era. And at every turn, it is the bigotry that hums with the greater evil. Lovecraft’s works of horror and science fiction in the early decades of the 20th century have had an outsized influence on popular culture.... Less highly regarded are Lovecraft’s ideas regarding race; a vehement believer in the superiority of white individuals over others, many of his stories were rooted in a fear of immigrants, miscegenation, and mixed ancestry....The superficialities are there — strange cults, rituals in the night, monsters with more body parts than strictly necessary — but none of the psychic horror of Lovecraft is found in Ruff’s work, none of the existential dread. The threats are real and obvious: a white man, often with a gun. ...the most terrifying moments in the story don’t come courtesy of the monsters. It turns out that even many-tentacled void hounds are nowhere near as scary as white people in Jim Crow America. Matt Ruff is to be commended for combining two genres that I couldn’t have considered further apart before now, and doing justice to both. You’ll come for the sci-fi, and stay for the history lesson. This timely rumination on racism in America refracts an African-American family’s brush with supernatural horrors through the prism of life in the Jim Crow years of the mid-20th century....Ruff (The Mirage) has an impressive grasp of classic horror themes, but the most unsettling aspects of his novel are the everyday experiences of bigotry that intensify the Turners’ encounters with the supernatural. Some very nice, very smart African-Americans are plunged into netherworlds of malevolent sorcery in the waning days of Jim Crow—as if Jim Crow alone wasn’t enough of a curse to begin with....If nothing else, you have to giggle over how this novel’s namesake, who held vicious white supremacist opinions, must be doing triple axels in his grave at the way his imagination has been so impudently shaken and stirred. Appartient à la sérieFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansA été inspiré parA inspiréPrix et récompensesListes notables
Une allégorie fantasmagorique du racisme par l'une des plus grandes voix de la SF. Chicago, 1954. Quand son père, Montrose, est porté disparu, Atticus, jeune vétéran de la guerre de Corée, s'embarque dans une traversée des États-Unis aux côtés de son oncle George, grand amateur de science-fiction, et d'une amie d'enfance. Pour ce groupe de citoyens noirs, il est déjà risqué de prendre la route. Mais des dangers plus terribles les attendent dans le Massachusetts, au manoir du terrible M. Braithwhite... Les trois comparses retrouvent en effet Montrose enchaîné, près d'être sacrifié par une secte esclavagiste qui communique avec des monstres venus d'un autre monde pour persécuter les Noirs. C'est la première de leurs péripéties... Dans l'Amérique ségrégationniste, Atticus et ses proches vont vivre des aventures effrayantes et échevelées, peuplées de créatures fantastiques et d'humains racistes non moins effroyables. Signé par un maître du genre, encensé par la critique outre-Atlantique, Lovecraft Country est un hommage au pulp et à la science-fiction des années 1950, un roman électrique d'une actualité déconcertante. La société HBO ne s'y est pas trompée en décidant de l'adapter pour une série sous la houlette de Jordan Peele, le réalisateur de Get Out. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Laurent Philibert-Caillat Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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