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Chargement... All the King's Men (original 1946; édition 2002)par Robert Penn Warren (Auteur), Noel Polk (Directeur de publication)
Information sur l'oeuvreAll the King's Men par Robert Penn Warren (1946)
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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 is a book from my bucket list. It's always a bit mind-boggling to read a book from a hundred years ago and recognize that nothing has really changed except fashion. It happened when I read [b:Arrowsmith|11389|Arrowsmith|Sinclair Lewis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328006651l/11389._SY75_.jpg|1446230] and realized that nothing has changed in the world of pharmaceuticals and physicians. All the King's Men lays out the idea that power and money is central to politics, and corrupts all politicians, no matter humble and full of good will they are in the beginning. Human nature doesn't change one bit. It's incredibly depressing.
Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" is magnificently vital reading, a book so charged with dramatic tension it almost crackles with blue sparks, a book so drenched with fierce emotion, narrative pace and poetic imagery that its stature as a "readin' book," as some of its characters would call it, dwarfs that of most current publications. Here, my lords and ladies, is no book to curl up with in a hammock, but a book to read until 3 o'clock in the morning, a book to read on trains and subways, while waiting for street cars and appointments, while riding elevators or elephants. Appartient à la série éditorialeLimited Editions Club (S:49.05) Est contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), romancier du Sud, fut longtemps le grand rival de Faulkner. Les Fous du roi (prix Pulitzer 1946), sans doute son plus grand livre, nous fait assister au douteux combat qu'un homme peut-etre sincerement epris de justice entend livrer - seul d'abord ou presque - contre les forces de la corruption et du mensonge. Nous sommes dans l'Amerique profonde du debut des annees 30, mais en territoire plutot familier: trafics d'influence, combines et crapuleries en tout genre, histoires de sexe ou d'argent opportunement deterrees a l'attention d'un ennemi politique ou d'un ami devenu genant - les choses ont decidement peu change. L'apprenti-sorcier, vite promis a ce qui ressemble a une ascension irresistible, sera a son tour rattrape par un passe dont il a imprudemment remue les eaux troubles. Car le temps, ce grand oublie des ambitieux d'ou qu'ils viennent, finit toujours par se venger, en y mettant parfois une terrible ironie. Et puis la violence, meme au service de la meilleure cause, n'est jamais un instrument facile a manipuler... Un livre feroce et melancolique, construit a la facon d'une partie d'echecs qui laissera, on le devine, la plupart des acteurs sur le carreau... et les survivants prives de bien des illusions. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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That central conceit, though, isn't really clear until you get about halfway through with the story. The first part of the story feels very much like a standard issue dramatic story about yes, politics and corruption. We learn the story of Willie Stark, how he made it from a bumpkin, to a young political appointee fighting a shady, kickback-laden county contract, to a stooge goaded into running for Governor by people using him for their own purposes, to a morally questionable Governor himself. That part of the novel is interesting and easily digestible enough, but the real power of it comes from the later, more philosophical part that shifts Stark's story into the background and brings Jack's story up front.
The storyline wrangling and plot development is masterful, but where the real beauty of this book is are the words. Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, but he also won one for poetry, and you can tell. Picking out a highlight quote was torture...I read this on the Kindle and digitally underlined about half the book because I was so in love with the language. It's a page turner, but not in a suspenseful kind of way. You just want to keep reading it to keep basking in the glory of the writing. I was sad to put it down when it was over. ( )