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Chargement... I Am Charlotte Simmons (original 2004; édition 2004)par Tom Wolfe (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreMoi, Charlotte Simmons par Tom Wolfe (2004)
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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. Je n'ai pas pu le finir, tant j'étais écœurée par la corruption affichée du monde étudiant américain, je pense que la traduction n'a pas aidé ! ( ) On est loin de l'excellence du Bûcher des vanités. Le roman est trop long, une centaine de pages auraient dû être couper. La traduction à la française ne colle pas à la réalité américaine. Tout est hyper stéréotypé: je ne peux pas croire que tout est si superficiel dans ces collèges américains où la poursuite de l'excellence est la minorité de ceux qui sont considérés comme des minables. Malgré tout, Tom Wolfe nous raconte une histoire intéressante mais ce n'est pas sa meilleure. LE grand livre sur la vie étudiante au début du XXIème siècle ! Hyper documenté, réaliste et romanesque, ce fucking conte cruel vous aggripe 1000 pages durant. Ni blancs, ni noirs, les personnages vous glissent entres les doigts et si certains stéréotypes existent (le sportif, le charmeur, l'intello, la pétasse,...), leur surface cache des méandres bien surprenants. Seule la fin (mais pourquoi aller fucking si vite ?) laisse sceptique. Fucking recommandé ! Ce n'est pas le meilleur Tom Wolfe, mais comme je suis fan, je prends tout. Cette fois-ci, voici une brillante étudiante de Virginie, parachutée sur le campus d'une université très élitiste (on reconnait Harvard) et aux prises avec le cynisme des étudiants riches et sophistiqués. Le choc de deux cultures, l'Amérique d'en haut, et celle d'en bas.
A failure it is: bloated, schematic, heavy-handed, and, it must be said, boring; impotent in its attempts to suggest a lived reality... and, oddest of all, flaccid as social satire. It would be logical to speculate on the psychological connections between the refined 73-year-old author of this strikingly out-of-touch bildungsroman (college kids get drunk! They hook up!) and a bright, well-read, exceedingly pretty, and preposterously dainty fictional lass who is regularly shocked by every cussword she hears uttered by the more affluent boors who share the groves of academe with her. At fictional Dupont University, every guy wants to be thought a "player" (or, as Wolfe spells it, "playa"), and nearly all the undergraduate women hope to be no better than sluts. Behind those ivied walls, our daughters gladly squirm out of their low-cut jeans to rut with shameless abandon, while our sons treat their one-night stands as conquests and whores. Charlotte came to Dupont not for sex but to learn. Like Harvard, Dupontis harder to get into than to stay at, but Charlotte has trouble with her grades. Her shame over sex gets in the way of the exercise of her mind. Somehow the two must be brought into harmony in what Mr. Wolfe calls her soul. She takes courses, however, in biology and neuroscience in which the professor speaks only of "the soul," in dismissive quotation marks. Perhapsthis is why our universities and our society are unable to identifymanliness or see how women and men relate to it. Manliness is a form ofunreason that science tries to explain away, and it takes a novelist to seethe reason in the unreason of manliness. The problem isn't really the inclusion of so many cliché characters; sadly, there are plenty of real students who fall into these categories. What's galling about this novel is its persistent lack of nuance, its reduction of the whole spectrum of people on a college campus to these garish primary colors. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
2005 Audie Award FinalistAmerica's "peerless observer" ("People") uncovers college life--from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating--plus race, class, sex, and basketball Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition...Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina, who has come here on full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turn of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock- obsessed campus--she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s." I Am Charlotte Simmons" is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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