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Chargement... The Committed (édition 2021)par Viet Thanh Nguyen (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe dévoué par Viet Thanh Nguyen
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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. This sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyens' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, is no less brilliant than its predecessor. The writing is whip-smart, witty, and lyrical. Set in the early 1980s, the Eurasian, heretofore nameless, narrator--who calls himself Vo Danh in this book, which means, literally, "nameless"--is a refugee again, this time in Paris. France is the land and of his father--a priest who impregnated a young Vietnamese girl--and he still cannot feel at home, being a man of two faces and two minds. His current refugee status is the result of his time in a communist reeducation camp, from which he and his "best friend and blood brother," Bon, have fled via a harrowing boat trip and a flight from Jakarta. In his new home, he becomes involved in organized crime in an underworld that is populated by former French colonists: Vietnamese thugs, Cambodian prostitutes, and alienated Algerians. It is interesting that Nguyen chose the title "The Committed," given that the narrator is anything but committed to a single idea or political philosophy. He is disillusioned with communism. As was developed in the first book, Vo Danh is blessed--or cursed--with the ability to see both sides of an issue, and after he has spent some time in France, he is not prepared to disavow Marxism or to embrace capitalism. Perhaps what he is ultimately committed to is his own psychological torture by undergoing serious self-examination. If I could give more than five stars to a review, this would be the book. It took me a couple of weeks to read it because I had to stop and think about so many observations Nguyen made through this disturbing, interesting character. Fantastic. Just as with his first, and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer, this novel is brilliantly created, conceived, drawn and executed. I loved it. Most characters are Vietnamese, Vietnamese-French or Vietnamese-American, the setting is Paris, and the protagonist is - or was - a spy. The author is a genius. There's a lot of thinking about identity and culture and colonialism going on here and it is clever and subtle and refuses easy answers (much much less heavyhanded than a lot of stuff out there), but as a thing to read it's pure voice, pure style (plot is ridiculous, characters are mostly cardboard). Stylistically it reads to me like a better version of the standard American comic novel: exuberant wordplay, picaresque plot, but actually, you know, funny, reined in sufficiently to make a point, not overwhelmed by its own indulgent excess. I didn't exactly love it but I'm pretty sure I admire it. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
La suite tr©·s attendue du Sympathisant, Prix Pulitzer 2016 ! O©£ l'on retrouve Vo Danh, le fameux agent double, plong©♭ dans le Paris des ann©♭es 80, sa faune interlope, ses philosophes marxistes et sa Place de la Bastille... Chef d'¿uvre d'inventivit©♭ et de dr©þlerie, Le D©♭vou©♭ est aussi un grand roman politique sur l'identit©♭ et sur l'Histoire qui n'en finit pas de nous rattraper. Paris, ©♭t©♭ 1981 Apr©·s avoir r©♭chapp©♭ d'un camp de r©♭©♭ducation, Vo Danh (l'homme sans nom, l'espion, l'agent double © la solde des communistes, h©♭ros et narrateur du Sympathisant) atterrit © Paris en m©®me temps qu'une cohorte de r©♭fugi©♭s vietnamiens. Il est accompagn©♭ de Bon, son fr©·re de sang, toujours aussi r©♭solument anti-communiste (et ignorant de la double identit©♭ de Vo Danh). Tous deux log©♭s dans le 11©·me arrondissement de Paris, ils se lancent © l'assaut de la capitale bien d©♭cid©♭s © faire leur trou et surtout © se remettre de leurs ©♭motions. H©♭las, Le Boss, leur seul contact © Paris, n'est autre qu'un trafiquant notoire qui leur offre en guise de job, de devenir ses hommes de main, charg©♭s de r©♭gler leur compte aux mauvais payeurs et autres resquilleurs. Bien trop sensible pour supporter toute cette violence, Vo Danh propose au Boss de se lancer dans un trafic de cannabis aupr©·s des intellectuels de gauche et autres philosophes marxistes. Un business plus tranquille et plus lucratif. Du moins le croit-il, car tr©·s vite, il se retrouve au c¿ur d'une brutale lutte de territoire entre dealers alg©♭riens. Et comme si tout cela ne suffisait pas, Bon et lui apprennent une incroyable nouvelle : l'homme masqu©♭, leur tortionnaire au camp de r©♭©♭ducation, serait lui aussi © Paris et occuperait un poste important © l'ambassade du Vietnam. Pour Vo Danh qui pensait couler des jours heureux © Paris, boire des cr©·mes en terrasse tout en se goinfrant de croissant, les ennuis ne font que commencer... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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