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Chargement... Zorro (2004)par Isabel Allende
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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. Magnifique roman de cap et d'épée, ces 500 et quelques pages se dévorent. Avec quelques personnages, quelques décors et quelques traits, Allende trace le portrait d'un jeune homme qui forge son identité et son alter ego au fil de ses aventures et de ses déboires. Ne manquent l'horrible méchant et l'amour inatteignable, mais Allende ne tombe jamais dans le kitsch ni dans le mièvre grâce au sens de l'humour et de l'observation de sa narratrice. Eh oui... je fus dupée par l'identité de la narratrice mais voilà qui n'a fait que rendre l'histoire plus tendre encore. ( )
This hard-charging style, nicely captured by Margaret Sayers Peden's translation, is one of Allende's strengths: she dashes off long, sweeping paragraphs that dance with energy. Her prose is casually sensuous (''power was passed from hand to hand like a coin''), and her characters are large and archetypal, cut from mythic patterns. Mischievous Don Diego, the future Zorro, and his ''milk brother,'' Bernardo, move through the California landscape like Western versions of Tom and Huck. …Allende wants to have some fun, and in this she succeeds with a variety of spunk and good cheer. …I am amazed at how enjoyable a picaresque novel can be, particularly one imbued with swashbuckling, swordplay, honor, hidden desire, unlikely coincidence and a good old-fashioned villain. Such elements are a reminder of the attractions of one of the main strains of world literature that starts with Don Quixote. …the book has plenty of what Hollywood would call non-stop action, and this is told with a pleasure so keen on the author's part that it's difficult not to be swept up in it. Reckless, unstable, attention-seeking, hysterical, sexually provocative, given to histrionic gestures, and with at least a split, dual or possibly even a multiple personality, Zorro is the archetypal neurotic-as-hero. He also wears a mask. Obviously, out in the real world, you'd lock him up and throw away the key. On the page, though, he's absolutely irresistible. The story of Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Native American Shoshone warrior, who becomes Zorro while traveling the world with his dependable sidekick Bernardo, is clearly a perfect fit for the author of The House of the Spirits and The Stories of Eva Luna. Appartient à la série éditorialeContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctions
Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for the weak and helpless. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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