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Chargement... The Heart's Invisible Furies (original 2017; édition 2017)par John Boyne
Information sur l'oeuvreLes fureurs invisibles du cœur par John Boyne (2017)
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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. Heartbreaking, humorous, tragic, and uplifting all at once. Immensely compelling story with well-drawn characters. ( ) This was a very interesting book. It covered the life of Cyril Avery from before he was born until he died. Born in Ireland, rich in the tradition of being ridged and non-accepting, Cyril struggled to understand and find himself. While Cyril wasn't the most likeable character, seeming weak and self-absorbed a lot of the times, one has to step back and reflect on when and how he grew up. Born after WWI, he was given up for adoption to a couple, who clearly were not meant to be parents both having their own preoccupations, and callously they would remind him that he was adopted. He comes of age in the 60's and 70's where he realized that Ireland would never accept him, and leaves for Amsterdam, then NYC. While he had no role model or close connection, he gradually he forms bonds. The book, covers his life, jumping decades at times, and continuing on. Well written and touching. I got this at the first Rainault book sale, and later it was recommended on TikTok. This was amazing. I had no idea where the story would go, and it never really let me go or let me down. So well written, so many ups and downs and dark dark humor and terrific dialog. The opening chapter - Cyril tells how his 16yo unwed pregnant mother is thrown out of church, out of home and out of town. Her bag is packed for her, and she goes to Dublin. It’s 1945. Each section advances 7 years in Cyril’s life - starting when he is 7, and going until he is 70. He is gay, which was illegal and just not talked about - especially in Ireland. He is hopelessly in love with Julian, who is very heterosexual (meaning, has sex with many Siemens) and engages is a lot of secret and quickie sex with men. This started to seem very dark and sad - and then there are spots of very dark humor that breaks it all up. He confesses his ‘sin’ and the priest has a heart attack and dies. He is caught in a public bathroom about to have sex and as he is hauled off to the police station, a statue topples and kills the cop and his longtime girlfriend. He sees a doctor who tries aversion therapy (poking his scrotum if he responds to a man’s name). There are so many themes in the different phases of Cyril’s life. His crazy adoptive parents Charles and Maude (who remind him constantly that he’s not a real Avery). The back alley sex and fear of getting caught. Dating Alice - she does look a bit like her brother Julian - and leaving after the wedding ceremony. You want so much for Cyril to tell her he’s gay and really not interested in her. He goes to Amsterdam and meets Bastiaan and has a real love relationship. Rescuing Ignac from the streets. The AIDS epidemic in New York. The mugging in New York. Returning to Dublin, meeting his son Liam (he had sex with Alice ONCE!) and finally his biological mother.
The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Boyne’s tiende roman voor volwassenen, vertelt ook een verhaal dat nooit gebeurd zou kunnen zijn, daarvoor hangt het te veel van toevalligheden aan elkaar. Toch blijf je bereid je ongeloof op te schorten, omdat je wilt weten hoe het verder gaat. Hoe de hoofdpersoon zich nu weer gaat redden uit de moeilijke situatie waarin hij, meestal door zijn eigen domme gedrag of dat van iemand anders, is terechtgekomen. En of hij zijn echte moeder ooit gaat vinden. Dat Boyne de puzzelstukjes veel te mooi in elkaar laat vallen, vergeef je hem. Hij trakteert ons op zoveel spannende scènes, op grappige dialogen met mooie Iers-Engelse uitdrukkingen erin, en zelfs op ontroering. Bovendien is The Heart’s Invisible Furies, net als The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, duidelijk een bedacht verhaal, bedoeld om de wel waargebeurde geschiedenis te illustreren. Dat is Boyne dit keer heel goed gelukt. John Boyne delivers an epic full of verve, humour and heart...This blending of fact and fiction recalls William Boyd’s masterly Any Human Heart, which was such a convincing fictionalised biography that it came with its own set of footnotes....At every stage, Boyne seems to be saying that the individual is more powerful than the institutional. And at its core, The Heart’s Invisible Furies aspires to be not just the tale of Cyril Avery, a man buffeted by coincidence and circumstance, but the story of Ireland itself. The Heart’s Invisible Furies” is a big, sweeping novel, the epic story of one man’s life. It takes on social issues and pivotal moments in Irish history as it follows the life of one Cyril Avery, a Pip-like orphan raised by indifferent adoptive parents and forced to make his own way in a very difficult world. Cyril, who narrates the book, is wry, observant and funny, and it is his voice that gets us through what are sometimes horrific events. ...Despite these missteps, the book never really flags, and Cyril’s intelligent, witty voice takes us all the way through to the end of his life. “The Heart’s Invisible Furies” is a brilliant, moving history of an Irishman, and of modern Ireland itself. Catherine’s journey to Dublin is the beginning of a picaresque, lolloping odyssey for the individual characters and for the nation that confines them. ...Boyne’s sombre 2014 novel A History of Loneliness anatomised such corruption and abuse, and he returns to track these seismic changes in Irish society with a broader, bawdier and more comedic sweep of narrative in The Heart’s Invisible Furies....The book blazes with anger as it commemorates lives wrecked by social contempt and self‑loathing....The narrative energy flags somewhat as Cyril’s story approaches the present day. Boyne’s fictional portrait of postwar Ireland and its people is nightmarish but utterly compelling The book deals with some serious subject matter – gay-bashing, political corruption, AIDS – as well as the brutal sadness of being an other in a society that does not tolerate or even acknowledge others. But too often, Boyne goes for laughs to the detriment of the narrative. Some of the passages – the dialogue in particular – are indeed funny, but by sacrificing authenticity for a cheap laugh, he does a disservice to his story...My other beef with this book, which I tried so desperately to like, is the virtual disappearance of Kitty. While she does pop up at points in the book, it is never as a fully realized character....The novel's most successful moments come when Boyne scraps the comedy shtick and paints a more realistic picture of tender connections and difficult circumstances. This could have been a smart, raging satire of Ireland, as that tremendous opening sentence promised Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Cyril n'est pas ℗± un vrai Avery ℗ et il ne le sera jamais ́ du moins, c'est ce que lui r©♭p©·tent ses parents, Maude et Charles. Mais s'il n'est pas un vrai Avery, qui est-il ? N©♭ d'une fille-m©·re bannie de la communaut©♭ rurale irlandaise o©£ elle a grandi, devenu fils adoptif des Avery, un couple dublinois ais©♭ et excentrique, Cyril se forge une identit©♭ au gr©♭ d'improbables rencontres et apprend © lutter contre les pr©♭jug©♭s d'une soci©♭t©♭ irlandaise o©£ la diff©♭rence et la libert©♭ de choix sont loin d'©®tre acquises.Une grande fresque sur l'histoire sociale de l'Irlande transform©♭e en ©♭pop©♭e existentielle. Florence Bouchy, Le Monde des livres.John Boyne partage avec le chef-d'¿uvre de John Irving, Le Monde selon Garp, un m©®me souffle ©♭pique. Delphine Peras, L'Express.Une ©♭ducation sentimentale et politique port©♭e par l'art d'un romancier qui sait sonder les reins et les c¿urs. Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Le Point.Traduit de l'anglais (Irlande) par Sophie Aslanides. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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