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In this deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading, the Uncommon reader is none other than Her Majesty the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world, and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The history boys, England's best loved author revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.… (plus d'informations)
BookshelfMonstrosity: Going in to the bookmobile to apologize for the disturbance created by one of her corgis, Queen Elizabeth II feels it would only be polite to check out a book. When she returns it, she checks out another . . . and then another. One of her pages becomes her abettor in the matter of securing books and reading them. Thus begins an amusing but also thought-provoking saga of how reading can change a person's habits and even outlook.… (plus d'informations)
akfarrar: Both these books explore the byways of characters whilst remaining unsentimental. They both expose weaknesses in modern British society if not in humanity. There is a wit in both and a degree of black humour.
albavirtual: También sobre libros y lecturas, pero sobre todo sobre el juego de la creación literaria, y sobre como los personajes de una novela quieren influir sobre el creador de la misma ¡¡¡¡¡¡
BookshelfMonstrosity: Brimming with quirky Britishness, these novels take on the transformative powers of doing something different. While the more humorous, satirical Uncommon Reader imagines the Queen as an increasingly sophisticated reader, the more reflective Unlikely Pilgrimage is moving and poignant.… (plus d'informations)
Alixtii: Both books having writers getting meta about the nature of writing and reading as a protagonist goes through a process of reading very (and I mean very) many books. Both are written with wit and insight, although Eco's book is better.
Vite lu, vite oublié. Vite lu ce petit livre de M. Bennett car simple à parcourir dans un style assez banal et sans relief, sans vraiment d'humour, ou alors si "british" qu'il échappe à nos yeux de grenouille. Hormis le discours final qui est assez bien fichu, les pages défilent comme à la parade et sans vraiment avoir d'intérêt. Car, s'il n'y avait cette mise en situation de la Reine d'Angleterre se transformant en lectrice fervente, au point d'avoir un oeil différent sur la charge de représentation qui est la sienne, ce petit opuscule serait d'un ennui à crever. On sourit de temps à autre, la fin est plus stimulante que le début, mais le reste est aussi insipide qu'une tasse de café allongée d'eau. Sans plus. ( )
Suite à une rencontre fortuite avec un bibliobus, la reine d'Angleterre se prend de passion pour la lecture. Ce passe temps qui semble complètement anodin pour le commun des mortels - voire ennuyeux pour certains - aura des conséquences surprenantes sur sa majesté. Elle y consacre de plus en plus de temps jusqu'à négliger ses royales obligations. Ceci à le don d'énerver tout le monde. Jusqu'où cette passion va-t-elle la mener ?
Je perçois la littérature comme une immense contrée, inscrivit-elle un jour: je me suis mise en route vers ses confins les plus extrêmes, en sachant que ne les atteindrai jamais.
Une femme d'action comme elle ne va pas rester dans la relative passivité de la lecture, elle va tôt ou tard se mettre à écrire ... On passe un agréable moment à lire ce petit livre (à peine plus de 100 pages) qui séduira les passionnés de lectures. Parfois drôle mais toujours plaisant sans toutefois être inoubliable. http://www.aubonroman.com/2010/11/la-reine-des-lectrices-par-alan-bennett.html( )
la reine des lectrices ou le pouvoir subversif de la lecture : qu'adviendrait-il si la Reine d'Angleterre succombait soudain au vice de la lecture ? Il s'agit là d'une réflexion allègrement menée sur la place de la lecture et de l'écriture, un livre court lu avec jubilation le temps d'une sieste ( )
Bennett manages to touch on some pointed issues in this little volume: life experience versus book experience; the pleasure of reading versus the sterility of being briefed; the riddle of what is "natural" behavior when a person lives so much in the public eye. And he makes you whoop with laughter while he's at it.
In recounting this story of a ruler who becomes a reader, a monarch who’d rather write than reign, Mr. Bennett has written a captivating fairy tale. It’s a tale that’s as charming as the old Gregory Peck-Audrey Hepburn movie “Roman Holiday,” and as keenly observed as Stephen Frears’s award-winning movie “The Queen” — a tale that showcases its author’s customary élan and keen but humane wit.
The Uncommon Reader is a political and literary satire. But it's also a lovely lesson in the redemptive and subversive power of reading and how one book can lead to another and another and another.
This time, his odd, isolated heroine is the queen of England. The story of her budding love affair with literature blends the comic and the poignant so smoothly it can only be by Bennett. It’s not his very best work, but it distills his virtues well enough to suggest how such a distinctive style might have arisen.
The Uncommon Reader has the tone and morally elevating intentions of a children's book. Yet this charming fairy tale is laced with plenty of drollery for readers of more than four feet high.
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At Windsor it was the evening of the state banquet and as the president of France took his place beside Her Majesty, the royal family formed up behind and the procession slowly moved off and through into the Waterloo Chamber.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
Had she been asked if reading had enriched her life she would have had to say yes, undoubtedly, though adding with equal certainty that it had at the same time drained her life of all purpose.
She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people. It was a hobby and it was in the nature of her job that she didn't have hobbies. Jogging, growing roses, chess or rock climbing, cake decoration, model aeroplanes. No. Hobbies involved preferences and preferences had to be avoided; preferences excluded people.
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included.
Indulged and bad-tempered though they were, the dogs were not unintelligent, so it was not surprising that in a short space of time they came to hate books as the spoilsports that they were (and always have been).
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
She switched the light on again and reached for her notebook and wrote:'You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.'
‘But ma'am must have been briefed, surely?' ‘Of course,' said the Queen, ‘but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.'
‘Pass the time?' said the Queen. ‘Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.'
Books did not defer. All readers were equal, and this took her back to the beginning of her life. As a girl, one of her greatest thrills had been on VE night when she and her sister had slipped out of the gates and mingled unrecognised with the crowds. There was something of that, she felt, to reading. It was anonymous; it was shared; it was common. And she who had led a life apart now found that she craved it. Here in these pages and between these covers she could go unrecognised.
...being a writer didn't excuse one from being a human being. Whereas (one didn't say this) being Queen does. I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.'
...being a reader was next door to being a spectator, whereas when she was writing she was doing, and doing was her duty.
Between one day and the next, though, she sacked somebody else, and Sir Kevin came into his office the next morning to find his desk cleared. Though Norman's stint at the university had been advantageous, Her Majesty did not like being deceived, and though the real culprit was the prime minister's special adviser, Sir Kevin carried the can. Once it would have brought him to the block; these days it brought him a ticket back to New Zealand and an appointment as high commissioner. It was the block but it took longer.
‘Though it is true one is eighty and this is a sort of birthday party. But quite what there is to celebrate I'm not sure. I suppose one of the few things to be said for it is that one has at least achieved an age at which one can die without people being shocked.'
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In this deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading, the Uncommon reader is none other than Her Majesty the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world, and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The history boys, England's best loved author revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.
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