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Chargement... Swing Time: A Novel (original 2016; édition 2017)par Zadie Smith (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreSwing Time par Zadie Smith (2016)
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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. This is an exceptional book, great on many levels, and one of the best I've read in many years. ( ) I was completely captivated by the story while also completely disliking the protagonist/narrator. Her cluelessness about anything happening around her, her passivity, her inability to ever say the right thing at the right time, all of these qualities were utterly infuriating to me. (This is one of those times where what I hate most in others is what I hate most in myself.) Every time I put the book down it was with some level of exasperation with the narrator; yet I couldn't stop picking the book up. The story loops and circles, which I always love. And the other characters have something going on, something worth diving into feet first. Highly recommend. Unfortunately, I didn't like the slow pacing of this story or the lead. The main character was easily led around and dreadfully boring. She didn’t really have a backbone; always at the whimsy of Aimee or running behind Tracey. Most likely this could have been a purposeful decision on the author's part to give us a blank slate to discover the story through, but she was so dull. At least her mama was ambitious. The minor characters like Hawa were much more interesting to me. The parts I liked involved the time the main character spent monitoring Aimee’s girl's school and the cultural shock and blunders she went through. I feel like this is one of those books you’re supposed to like, y’know that has universal appeal, but I didn’t get the point. It was a struggle to finish. ETA: The reason the main character and Tracey fell out is so dumb. Like, they drifted apart for sure, but why was that the catalyst? Liked the book a lot, up until the very end, the last 50 pages or so - which I thought really fizzled out. The first-person narrator’s voice was really good, and she described the fascinating people in her life, family, friends, fellow employees, bosses, etc. Great descriptions of people and their motivations and behavior. Maybe the end was very clever and I just missed it, I dunno. Listened to this as an audiobook, really liked the reader’s ability to render various accents.
For its plot alone, Swing Time makes for truly marvellous reading. The narrator’s journey, from gritty estate to glittering globe and back again, is the juicy stuff of which film adaptations are made. And the music! If one were to make a playlist of the references, one would have a greatest hits of black music: from Gambian drummers to Cab Calloway to Michael Jackson to Rakim. What makes Swing Time so extraordinary are the layers on which it operates; beneath its virtuosic plotting lies the keenest social commentary. Some of the narrator’s experiences in Africa with Aimee — combined with her efforts to understand shifting attitudes toward race in music and dance — are meant to raise larger questions about cultural appropriation, and the relationship between the privileged West and the developing world. But these issues do not spring organically from this clumsy novel — a novel that showcases its author’s formidable talents in only half its pages, while bogging down the rest of the time in formulaic and predictable storytelling. Appartient à la série éditorialeGallimard, Folio (6739) Contient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Deux petites filles métisses d'un quartier populaire de Londres se rencontrent lors d'un cours de danse. Entre deux entrechats, une relation fusionnelle se noue entre elles. Devant les pas virtuoses de Fred Astaire et de Jeni LeGon sur leur magnétoscope, elles se rêvent danseuses. Tracey est la plus douée, la plus audacieuse mais aussi la plus excessive. Alors qu'elle intègre une école de danse, la narratrice, elle, poursuit une scolarité classique au lycée puis à l'université, et toutes deux se perdent de vue. La plus sage devient l'assistante personnelle d'Aimee, une chanteuse mondialement célèbre. Elle parcourt le monde, passe une partie de l'année à New York et participe au projet philanthropique d'Aimee : la construction d'une école pour filles dans un village d'Afrique. Pendant ce temps, la carrière de Tracey démarre, puis stagne, tandis que progresse son instabilité psychologique. Après une série d'événements choquants, les deux amies se retrouveront pour un dernier pas de danse. Légère et énergique, la voix de Barbara Tissier rythme avec grâce ce roman d'apprentissage où l'humour se mêle à l'émotion. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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