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Chargement... On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (édition 2019)par Ocean Vuong (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreUn bref instant de splendeur par Ocean Vuong
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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. beautiful!!! ( ) Having finished reading this novel, On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, one looks back at its poetic title and wonders what it means. Like the words and the story elements in the novel it seems the five words that make up the title are each beautiful, and they are seemingly connected; they seemingly suggest an ideal state that we might long for, but more likely these five words are disconnected, they are simply suspended in the air. Reading On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, you also have to recall the time frame of the Vietnam War. Since it took place before I was born, and ended during my early youth, nonetheless, the images of the boat refugees is clearly in my mind. Significant dates and the start of the conflict as early as 1955, the end of American involvement in 1973 and the fall of Saigon in 1975, and the subsequent migration crisis of the Vietnamese boat people from its height in the late 1970s till the beginning of the 1990s. In as far as On Earth we're briefly gorgeous autobiographical, that means that the flight it set in that final decade of the late 1980s. Much of the story is quite horrible. Little Dog, as the main character is dubbed, has made a narrow escape, but misery follows his. The history of his grandmother, the troubles of his mother which also beset Little Dog in the new land, as he often needs to solve their problem follow him wherever he goes. In fact, the misery left behind in Vietnam is only replaced by different misery in the new land. A brief moment of bliss and love is foreshortened by his lover's death from drug abuse. Little Dog is in the centre of all this misery. Still, all is dressed in the most beauteous, poetic language. Beauty, in the form of language: poetry, beautiful language surrounds him. It is where he turns to find relief. None in his family could read, but from the age of 11 Little Dog manages to read. Writing becomes the way to deal with his life's misery. The book, though not in linear chronological order, is a letter, written to his mother. This was a beautifully written book and the audiobook narration was just full of emotion. I think it hopped around a little bit too much for me and I actually found it too poetic for myself, though I’m sure others will love it for this reason. Because of the skilled writing, a few descriptions come off as very graphic. Overall, a very good book. This is one of my all-time favorite books, also one of the few in my lifetime that compelled me to annotate and save passages. The beauty in Ocean's writing is evident throughout, and his ability to transform words into a visual work of art is a common theme in this book. It became clear from the beginning that Ocean Vuong is a poet, evident in how skillfully he strings words together to create the most beautiful sentences. I was amazed, enlightened, and awestruck while reading this masterpiece. If there's one book to read in your lifetime, I argue that this should be the one. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Un bref instant de splendeur se présente sous la forme d'une lettre qu'un fils adresse à sa mère qui ne la lira jamais. Fille d'un soldat américain et d'une paysanne vietnamienne, elle est analphabète, parle à peine anglais et travaille dans un salon de manucure aux États-Unis. Elle est le pur produit d'une guerre oubliée. Son fils, dont la peau est trop claire pour un Vietnamien mais pas assez pour un Américain, entreprend de retracer leur histoire familiale : la schizophrénie de sa grand-mère traumatisée par les bombes ennemies au Vietnam, les poings durs de sa mère contre son corps d'enfant, son premier amour marqué d'un sceau funeste, sa découverte du désir, de son homosexualité et du pouvoir rédempteur de l'écriture. Ce premier roman, écrit dans une langue d'une beauté grandiose, explore avec une urgence et une grâce stupéfiantes les questions de race, de classe et de masculinité. Ocean Vuong signe une plongée dans les eaux troubles de la violence, du déracinement et de l'addiction, que la tendresse et la compassion viennent toujours adroitement contrebalancer. Un livre d'une justesse bouleversante sur la capacité des mots à panser les plaies ouvertes depuis des générations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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