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Chargement... Le son de ma voixpar Ron Butlin
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 1   Alan.M | Jul 8, 2019 |    ) CarolKub | Apr 3, 2017 |  ) polarbear123 | Aug 15, 2014 | I don't know if this book was influenced by Eric Berne's writing but it fits nicely into Transactional Analysis (eg his book "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?"). A tiresome clever wally marketing manager uses alcohol to hide his damaged emotional state (from childhood) and support his playacting marriage and working life. He slides into a downward spiral but instead of arriving at the scripted crash, his inner (adult) voice pushes aside the child and gently helps him to help himself and successfully challenge the root of the problem, in this case his dead father. A short but interesting book about alcoholism. ( ) Miro | Feb 6, 2011 | LizzySiddal | Oct 16, 2010 |
Butlin had made a reputation as a poet but this was his first novel* and an unusual debut it was. Presented from the viewpoint of Morris Magellan, a married man with two children he refers to as “the accusations” it is an absorbing study of an alcoholic and his descent into self-disgrace. What marks The Sound Of My Voice out as especially bold is the use of the second person to carry the narrative. Second person novels are rare; successful ones are rarer still. That Butlin carries the conceit off is a tribute to his writing skill. It helps that in its opening the novel concentrates on Magellan’s childhood where his remote father is presented as a major (negative) influence on his subsequent life. Using the second person could have been an invitation to the reader to be complicit in Magellan’s woes but it is not merely a literary trick, the voice is there for a purpose - which I shall not spoil even though the introduction, by Randall Stevenson, does. (Or would have had I not taken the precaution of avoiding reading it till after I’d finished the novel.) This is a short book but all the better for it. * Published in 1987 by Canongate. This Black Ace edition is described as definitive; corrected and revised by the author.
"One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80's... Butlin's book is a stylistic triumph."--Irvine Welsh "One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80's . . . Butlin's book is a stylistic triumph."--Irvine Welsh Morris Magellan has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids. But Morris is also a chronic alcoholic, heading fast towards self-destruction. Morris is not hoping to meet Ms. Right and acquire the two kids that will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasn't kept him off the bottle. Ron Butlin's tale of one man's inner turmoil is haunting, harrowing, yet strangely uplifting; a masterpiece from a neglected Scottish writer. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Utterly compelling, deeply moving, often hard to read, this is an extraordinary book which deserves to be read by everyone. Written entirely in the second-person, this is the story of Morris Magellan, a 34 year-old executive in a firm selling biscuits, married with two small children. He is, also, a barely functioning alcoholic, and as his descent into the very worst moments of darkness spirals out of control, the remarkable achievement of this novel truly comes into its own. The ever-insistent 'you' of the book - Morris's own voice watching himself from outside his body, as it were - also means that we as readers watch the events through this perspective too. Convinced that he is managing his relationship with alcohol, we can see the true extent of the damage that it is doing to both his career and his family.
Us Scots have a troublesome relationship with the demon drink and this, together with perhaps an equally powerful book in AL Kennedy's 'Paradise', are brilliant but uncomfortable books that explore this. With a foreword from Irvine Welsh, and an interesting afterword from the author himself explaining the troubled publication history of this novel, this book has been justifiably hailed as a classic. Let us, please, not lose this again to the void. This is a remarkable, troubling, deeply lyrical book that explores some dark places and offers, well, I'll leave that for you to decide. An absolute must-read. (