AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Riddley Walker par Russell Hoban
Chargement...

Riddley Walker (édition 2002)

par Russell Hoban (Auteur)

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
1,3445213,897 (4.14)1
"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and--this matters most--intensely ponderable." --Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." --Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." --Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." --John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociously inventive." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding... Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state--and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.… (plus d'informations)
Membre:Robert_Weaver
Titre:Riddley Walker
Auteurs:Russell Hoban (Auteur)
Info:Bloomsbury : London, 2002, c1980. paperback
Collections:Votre bibliothèque, Second-hand, Bought on-line, Fiction, SF fantasy horror, Novels, Published 00s, Unfinished
Évaluation:
Mots-clés:SF, apocalypse

Information sur l'oeuvre

Riddley Walker: Expanded Edition par Russell Hoban (Author)

Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi la mention 1

Affichage de 1-5 de 52 (suivant | tout afficher)
Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker is set two thousand years after a nuclear exchange. England has been knocked back to the iron age and is just rediscovering the formula for gunpowder. What is left of the government communicates through puppet shows. Variations on Punch and Judy can always draw a crowd. Cults abound. Around Canterbury, now called Cambry, St. Eustace is a central religious figure associated with the old technological age. Riddley Walker, a young man on his own after the death of his father, takes an iconic trip to the ruins of the cathedral at Canterbury. Riddley speaks a demotic dialect all his own that is easier to listen to than it is to read by eye.
Riddley’s world will remind you of A Canticle for Leibowitz, and it influenced the far-future Hawaiian dialect in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.
It will be worth your time to read the author’s note and glossary at the end of the expanded edition. ( )
  Tom-e | Jul 8, 2023 |
The book started as a challenge in deductive reasoning to understand its colloquialisms. After a few chapters the tone became more familiar and overall the book was a fun read. ( )
  misterysun | Feb 27, 2023 |
Fantastic idea and well executed...but I stopped caring about the journey and, eventually, the characters. ( )
  albertgoldfain | Feb 18, 2022 |
I tried, I really did. But I couldn't get past 35% I had to keep consulting an online annotated version to help decipher the text. Even beside the spelling, grammar and new words, there were just too many UK-specific terms and words that I'm unfamiliar with (like getting from "helping the qwirys" is derived from the modern "helping the police with their inquiries"- a term for police torture). So it's all just too much work to offset the entertainment value.
  KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |
'The onlyes power is no power. Wel now I sust that wernt qwite it. It aint that its no power. Its the not strurgling for power."

An extraordinary novel of imagination, craft, and heart. What happens when those of us that remain find ourselves wandering stunned and lost? Debating fight or flight? Measuring the degree to which moving on matters? If we're lucky we discover the moment, we release the ego, we let go and find acceptance. We embrace the only dance there is. I loved this book. ( )
  mortalfool | Jul 10, 2021 |
Affichage de 1-5 de 52 (suivant | tout afficher)
aucune critique | ajouter une critique

» Ajouter d'autres auteur(e)s (2 possibles)

Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Hoban, RussellAuteurauteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Self, WillIntroductionauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé

Est une version étendue de

Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais

Aucun

"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and--this matters most--intensely ponderable." --Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." --Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." --Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." --John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociously inventive." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding... Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state--and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (4.14)
0.5 2
1 6
1.5 1
2 13
2.5 3
3 41
3.5 7
4 76
4.5 19
5 134

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 203,225,594 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible