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Chargement... Le commis (1957)par Bernard Malamud
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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. The Assistant: A Novel This book must be really old (1957) by judging by both its tenor and setting. Initially I found it almost sepia to read but persevered and finished it. I cannot say I enjoyed it and I cannot say that I didn't. I quite liked the metamorphosis of the character of the assistant but didn't like the fatalism that pervades the whole thing. Well written but not much lost if you don't ever read this. I read this book with a literary supplement helping me understand it, as the meaning seemed to be lost amidst the story, and I believe that this novel was simply not for me. The language read a little forced, dated, and waywardly. While it tried to focus on the characters, I found myself growing distracted and slightly irritated by the way that they approached things and dealt with their lives. Although this was on Time's Top 100 Books list, I felt as if it did not quite deserve that sort of literary aplomb. This was a disappointing read. 2 stars- barely. I very much enjoyed the writing style, and that we knew many of the characters, but not many details of their backstory. I was very interested in the content of the book and the fate of the characters. However, there were so many details I wish were better explained to those unfamiliar with Jewish History. I also felt there were too many unexpected and unbelievable incidents in the end. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Le commis est le deuxi©·me roman de Bernard Malamud, et son premier succ©·s international. Class©♭ parmi les 100 romans du XXe si©·cle par le magazine Time, il s'est vendu en Am©♭rique © plus de 2 millions d'exemplaires. Ce texte situe Malamud dans la lign©♭e de Bashevis Singer ou de grands auteurs russes comme Tchechov ou Pouchkine. Une petite ©♭picerie de quartier © Brooklyn devient le th©♭©Øtre d'une fable morale, qui s'interroge sur la possibilit©♭ de r©♭demption, sur la nature humaine et le r©®ve am©♭ricain. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Bernard Malamud intertwines the lives of two down-on-their-luck characters, Morris Bober, the Jewish owner of a failing grocery store in Brooklyn, and Frank Alpine, a drifter whose tenuous connection to the grocery store, its owner and his family devolves over time as the truth behind his motivation for helping out at the store is slowly revealed. Bober, as the archetypal Jew, struggles to overcome the harms inflicted on him by an unfair world; Alpine, haunted by images of Saint Francis of Assisi, struggles to overcome the self-inflicted harms resulting from his own poor choices.
The Assistant plays the boredom of working in a store where hours pass without a single customer and the slow process of wooing a reluctant woman against sudden, seemingly Deus ex machina acts of criminality and violence as the push and pull on Frank as he works out who he is. The use of an omniscient third-person narrator is particularly effective, subtly providing the reader multiple perspectives to highlight the contrasts between not just Bober and Alpine but also what each character of the novel portrays.
The Assistant is ultimately a redemption story which focuses on the worthiness of faith, regardless of whether one is rewarded,