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Chargement... Pouliuli (Pacific Classics, No. 8)par Albert Wendt
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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. Wonderful examination of the roles of individuality and community within a culture. As striking as Kundera the first time I read him. ( ) Pouliuli means darkness. The darkness of traditions and its learning, and its juxtaposition against the confined or bookish learning ends up in clashes. The mechanism adopted by the lead character (that of throwing out) is showing repulsion. The myth related to Pili (lizard) is very telling: Pili's leap into darkness and never to reappear has a parallel to some incidents happening in this novel. Wendt is trying to produce a major tragic feagure (76 year old Osovae: holder of matai title Faleasa) here and also important in the novel are some historical allusions to Samoan chronology. Faleaasa discovers what does it imply when one becomes mad. One is ignored, is left unloved and that person looses control over his community. I find the narratives very complicated and the plot very intense. Literary style is good but too much of culturally enthused narrations mar the beauty. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Few novelists of the Pacific islands could be less derivative in terms of the real vision into the life and character of non-Western society.... Even fewer novels, Western or Third World, can reach the strength and artistic power of Pouliuli." --World Literature Today Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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