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Normal people A Novel (édition 2019)

par Sally Rooney

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Connell et Marianne ont grandi dans la me me ville d'Irlande. Il est le garc ʹon en vue du lyce e, elle est la solitaire un peu maladroite. Pourtant, l'e tincelle se produit : le fils de la femme de me nage et l'intello hautaine connaissent ensemble leur premier amour. Un an plus tard, alors que Marianne s'e panouit au Trinity College de Dublin, Connell s'acclimate mal a la vie universitaire. Un jour, tout est le ger, irre sistible ; le lendemain, le drame pointe et les sentiments vacillent. Entre eux, le jeu vient tout juste de commencer. Sally Rooney re ussit le tour de force de donner une dimension unique et universelle a cette histoire. Porte par des dialogues saisissants de justesse, Normal People est un roman magistral sur la jeunesse, l'amitie , le sexe, sur les errances affectives et intellectuelles d'une ge ne ration qui n'a plus le droit de re ver, mais qui s'ente te a espe rer.… (plus d'informations)

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Titre:	Normal people A Novel
Auteurs:	Sally Rooney
Info:	[S.l.] : Crown/Archetype, 2019.
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Mots-clés:	READ2022, Audiobook, Abuse, Coming of Age, Dublin, Ireland, Irish Authors, Women Authors, Irish Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Relationships

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Un jour par David Nicholls (BookshelfMonstrosity)
BookshelfMonstrosity: Normal People is more explicit than One Day, but both of these character-driven novels follow a couple who can't resist each other and come together only to separate over and over again.
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Trust Exercise par Susan Choi (BookshelfMonstrosity)
BookshelfMonstrosity: Though Trust Exercise employs an unconventional storyline that unfolds with stylistically complex flair, and Normal People is more straightforward, both novels play with power dynamics within relationships and explore the limitations of communication.… (plus d'informations)
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Conversations with Friends par Sally Rooney (hazzabamboo)
hazzabamboo: Her second, and even better - they cover quite similar ground
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Songe à la douceur par Clementine Beauvais (SandSing7)
SandSing7: The characters and their relationship are eerily similar, the writing is lovely and poetic (even though Paris is written in verse), and it's super weird that even the endings are exactly the same.
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You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here par Frances Macken (WendyRobyn)
WendyRobyn: These are both coming of age stories in which young adults reassess their childhood relationships after moving away from their Irish home village.

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C'est le bandeau indiquant que ce roman a été vendu à 1 million d'exemplaire qui m'a d'abord attiré. Diantre 1 million, ça n'est pas rien... Alors j'ai voulu voir... et je n'ai pas été déçu par cette histoire... d'amour. Oui, "Normal people" est un roman d'amour, mais un roman d'amour revisité, remis au goût du jour.
L'histoire se passe en Irlande. Connell et Marianne se rencontre au lycée. Il est le gars que tout le monde veut avoir comme copain, elle est la fille que personne ne fréquente. Ils tombent amoureux... et une relation compliquée commence. Tout au long du livre, ils vont s'éloigner, se rapprocher... mais toujours s'aimer.
Je ne suis pas un grand fan des romances, mais ici c'est avant tout le style de l'auteure qui fait la différence. Des phrases courtes, beaucoup de dialogues non-marqués vous font vivre l'histoire comme si vous étiez DANS l'histoire. Alors, oui, parfois la simplicité du style peut laisser un arrière goût de superficialité... Mais, moi, j'aime qu'un roman me raconte une histoire et si c'est une belle histoire, c'est encore mieux. Et comme parfois je suis un peu fleur bleue si c'est une belle histoire d'amour, je craque. (

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[T]he idealized reading experience Rooney casts for her young writer is a magnetic mingling of literary minds that sharpens an intelligence capable not merely of imagining others but of imagining how to be close to them, even how to live with the responsibility of their happiness and dreams.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe Nation, Hannah Gold (Sep 17, 2019)

[U]pon critical reflection, the novel’s territory comes to seem like more fog than not. Which is to say: it’s a novel about university life, but without collegiate descriptions or interactions with professors or references to intellectual histories or texts; about growing up, but without any adults [. . .]; about Ireland, but without any sense of place, national history, or even physical description (if Joyce wrote Ulysses in order that Dublin might be reconstructed brick by brick, you’d be hard pressed to even break ground using Normal People); about Connell becoming a writer, but without any meaningful access to his interior development, or any sense conveyed of how his creative “passion” inflects his life; and, finally, about Marianne and Connell’s intertwined fate where we are only intermittently given access to sustained moments of intimacy.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierCleveland Review of Books, Philip Harris (Jun 12, 2019)

Rooney's slivers of insight into how Marianne and Connell wrestle with their emotions and question their identity in the process made it one of the most realistic portrayals of young love I've read. Their relationship is rife with mistakes, misunderstandings, and missed chances that could be simplified if only they communicated and didn't subconsciously suppress their feelings, as millennials are wont to do.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierBusiness Insider, Hillary Hoffower (Jun 4, 2019)

Here, youth, love and cowardice are unavoidably intertwined, distilled into a novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe Washington Post, Lauren Sarazen (Apr 22, 2019)

[W]hile Rooney may write about apparent aimlessness and all the distractions of our age, her novels are laser-focused and word-perfect. They build power by a steady accretion of often simple declarative sentences that track minuscule shifts in feelings.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierNPR Books, Heller McAlpin (Apr 16, 2019)

[T]he individual, in

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe Millions, Freya Sanders (Apr 15, 2019)

Rooney is always starting chapters in the aftermath of something else, filling in the necessary details later. This is simultaneously frustrating and an important part of what makes the book so compulsively readable.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe AV Club, Bradley Babendir (Apr 15, 2019)

This striking observation about what makes their love transcendent is the freshest in this remarkably timeless novel. True love is what admits no spectators and permits no display, a thing so precious and rare we’ve almost forgotten that it exists.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierSlate.com, Laura Miller (Apr 15, 2019)

The miracle of this book is that the romance and the analysis aren’t in opposition to each other. Instead, each amplifies the other, bringing the whole to a roaring crescendo. It is impossibly intellectual, impossibly tender. Impossibly beautiful, too.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierVox, Constance Grady (Apr 15, 2019)

People can change, for better or worse, Rooney argues in this book, especially young people.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierNew York Magazine, Meaghan O'Connell (Apr 12, 2019)

Normal People proposes that a merciful and just country can still exist, even if only in the space between friends.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe Atlantic, Annalisa Quinn (Apr 12, 2019)

Some of the plotting feels heavy-handed and expedient. Her characters cry perhaps more often than you will cry over them. This story can tip over into melodrama. But, then, what is young love without that?

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe New York Times Book Review, Dwight Garner (Apr 8, 2019)

Rooney posits that true intimacy leads to self-annihilation, a fate that Marianne desires and Connell resists. Rooney calls our bluff when we say we want love. Look, she gestures, is this really what you want?

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierColumbia Journal, Vera Carothers (Apr 4, 2019)

Normal People has the feeling of having been either rushed into publication following the success of Conversations With Friends or a draft for Conversations With Friends. It’s most useful to read them together, as one book or project.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe New Republic, Christine Smallwood (Apr 1, 2019)

Restrained but precise, such scenes place Rooney among a cadre of authors who have renewed the realist novel by doubling down on its capacity for rich psychological description.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierLos Angeles Review of Books, Anna E. Clark (Mar 25, 2019)

In outline it's a simple story, but Rooney tells it with bravura intelligence, wit, and delicacy.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierKirkus Reviews, starred review (Feb 18, 2019)

Rooney crafts a devastating story from a series of everyday sorrows by delicately traversing female and male anxieties over sex, class, and popularity.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierPublishers Weekly (starred review) (Jan 17, 2019)

And, whatever the reality or otherwise of the dangers around them, however many times they have absurd quarrels or, conversely, seem to meld and share an identity, that pleasure, of being touched by great art, is to be had in reading the story of Connell and Marianne, just because Rooney is such a gifted, brave, adventurous writer, so exceptionally good at observing the lies people tell themselves on the deepest level, in noting how much we forgive, and above all in portraying love.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe Guardian, Kate Clanchy (Sep 1, 2018)

What’s remarkable is the extraordinary pitch of Rooney’s writing, the way it shimmers with intelligence. Each sentence is measured and unobtrusive, and yet the cumulative effect is a near-unbearable attentiveness to the emotional dimension of human lives, the quick uneasy weather.

ajouté par ScattershotSteph | modifierThe New Statesman, Olivia Laing (Aug 22, 2018)

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Rooney, Sally	—	auteur principal	toutes les éditions	confirmé
Baardman, Gerda	Traducteur	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
Balmelli, Maurizia	Traducteur	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
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Normal People [2020 TV mini series] par Lenny Abrahamson

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Présélection – Fiction – 2020)

Booker Prize (Présélection – 2018)

BookTube Prize (Octofinalist – Fiction – 2020)

British Book Award (Gagnant – Livre de l'année – 2019)

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Irish Book Award (Gagnant – Roman – 2018)

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (Sélection finale – 2019)

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Waterstones Book of the Year (Sélection finale – 2018)

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It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion, that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness.
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Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell.

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It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.

That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it.

Outside her breath rises in a fine mist and the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same infinitesimally small mistake.

His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.

Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.

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If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.

Marianne is so happy for Joanna and Evelyn that she feels lucky even to see them together, even to hear Joanna on the phone to Evelyn saying cheerfully: Okay, love you, see you later. It gives Marianne a window onto real happiness, though a window she cannot open herself or ever climb through.

Shame surrounded her like a shroud. She could hardly see through it. The cloth caught up her breath, prickled on her skin. It was as if her life was over.

I'm used to it, she says. I've been lonely my whole life, really.

She feels she has corned him into the conversation, and she's reluctant now to push any harder than she has already.

It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different.

She feels pleasurably crushed under the weight of his power over her, the vast ecstatic depth of her will to please him.

Like a trained animal she stays stock-still, every nerve bristling.

His touch has a narcotic effect.

She is an abyss that he can reach into, an empty space for him to fill.

Her body is just an item of property, and though it has been handed around and misused in various ways, it has somehow always belonged to him, and she feels like returning it to him now.

She hates the person she has become, without feeling any power to change anything about herself.

She knows a confrontation is coming now, and she can do nothing to stop it. It's moving toward her already from every direction, and there's no special move she can make, no evasive gesture, that can help her escape it.

From a young age her life has been abnormal, she knows that. But so much is covered over in time now, the way leaves fall and cover a piece of earth, and eventually mingle with the soil. Things that happened to her then are buried in the earth of her body.

There's something frightening about her, some huge emptiness in the pit of her being. It's like waiting for a lift to arrive and when the doors open nothing is there, just the terrible dark emptiness of the elevator shaft, on and on forever.

Still, he would like down and die for her at any minute, which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person.

Dublin is extraordinarily beautiful to her in wet weather, the way gray stone darkens to black, and rain moves over the grass and whispers on slick roof tiles. Raincoats glistening in the undersea color of street lamps. Rain silver as loose change in the glare of traffic.

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Connell et Marianne ont grandi dans la me me ville d'Irlande. Il est le garc ʹon en vue du lyce e, elle est la solitaire un peu maladroite. Pourtant, l'e tincelle se produit : le fils de la femme de me nage et l'intello hautaine connaissent ensemble leur premier amour. Un an plus tard, alors que Marianne s'e panouit au Trinity College de Dublin, Connell s'acclimate mal a la vie universitaire. Un jour, tout est le ger, irre sistible ; le lendemain, le drame pointe et les sentiments vacillent. Entre eux, le jeu vient tout juste de commencer. Sally Rooney re ussit le tour de force de donner une dimension unique et universelle a cette histoire. Porte par des dialogues saisissants de justesse, Normal People est un roman magistral sur la jeunesse, l'amitie , le sexe, sur les errances affectives et intellectuelles d'une ge ne ration qui n'a plus le droit de re ver, mais qui s'ente te a espe rer.

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