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Un roman quasiment impossible à résumer, qui mêle les voix, les styles (épistolaire, journal, policier, anticipation), les époques et les continents, pour mener une réflexion sur les souvenirs enfouis, les résurgences, les coïncidences et la métempsycose. Si le tout est ambitieux et brillamment construit, la complexité narrative perd par moment le lecteur qui aurait souhaité un texte plus ramassé pour un effet plus percutant. ( ) Le livre est plus complet que le film, mais je trouve que le film a su en tirer le meilleur et le mettre en forme d'une façon remarquable. Le roman est moins agréable à lire, du fait de son découpage. 5 des 6 histoires sont coupées en 2 et on les termine dans le sens inverse d'où on les a commencé. C'est logique de par la conception d 'ensemble, et c'est un bel execrcice de style pour l'auteur, mais pour le lecteur ce n'est pas simple. Un livre très original qui relate les aventures de plusieurs personnages a différentes époques dans le passe et le futur. tous ces personnages sont lies entre eux, ce que l'on découvrira au fil du roman. La structure du roman est inattendue, le style de l'auteur varie suivant les personnages. Au finaĺ, ce livre est assez impressionnant et à la hauteur de sa réputation. personnellement, je n'ai pas ressenti d'attachement particulier aux personnages et de véritable intérêt pour l'intrigue. quant aux réflexions sur l'avidité de nos sociétés, sur l'écologie,etc., elles ne m'ont pas semble particulièrement originales. D'où une évaluation modérée.
It felt like reading multiple stories from six different authors all on a common theme, yet all these disparate characters connect, their fates intertwine, and their souls drift across time like clouds across a globe. Cloud Atlas is powerful and elegant because of Mitchell's understanding of the way we respond to those fundamental and primitive stories we tell about good and evil, love and destruction, beginnings and ends. He isn't afraid to jerk tears or ratchet up suspense - he understands that's what we make stories for. ContientFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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Historical Fiction.
HTML:By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks • Now a major motion picture • Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon. Praise for Cloud Atlas “[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel’s every page.”—The New York Times Book Review “One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is—and should be—read by any student of contemporary literature.”—Dave Eggers “Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative.”—People “The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet—not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I’ve never read anything quite like it, and I’m grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds.”—Michael Chabon “Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent.”—The Washington Post Book World. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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