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Chargement... Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près (2005)par Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Despite numerous attempts I just could not get through this novel. I am tempted to see the movie to see what I missed. I suspect that the obstacle was the precious nature of the prose, which unfortunately never convinced me of its reality. ( ) J'ai eu beaucoup de mal à me laisser emporter ce roman en grande partie, je crois, à cause de la qualité relativement médiocre de la traduction. La langue, et par conséquent le récit, m'a paru boiteuse, voire laborieuse. L'enfant ne m'a pas paru convaincant; les personnages, sans nom pour la plupart, évasifs; le dénouement improbable et même décevant. Par contre, on se laisse prendre par la quête d'Oscar, par les personnages qu'il rencontre, par sa découverte du monde et sa tentative de le comprendre. La fin aussi est belle : à la fois sereine, optimiste et mélancolique. C'est définitivement un livre qui mérite un coup d'œil non seulement pour son thème, mais aussi ses images et sa structure. À neuf ans, Oskar Schell trouve extrêmement difficile de faire certaines choses, prendre une douche, ou l’ascenseur. Les ponts suspendus, les germes, les avions, les feus d’artifice, mais aussi les échafaudages, les plaques d’égout, les sacs sans propriétaire, les chaussures, les gens à moustache, la fumée, les nœuds, les gratte-ciel et les turbans provoquent en lui une véritable panique. Lorsqu’il trouve une clé dans le vase du dressing de son père un an après la mort de ce dernier dans les attentats du 11-Septembre, Oskar se met en tête de découvrir la serrure à laquelle elle correspond ainsi que la signification du mot « Black » écrit au dos d’une enveloppe. Va-t-il enfin résoudre le mystère de la disparition de son père ? Il décide de rencontrer toutes les personnes qui s’appellent Black à New York, soit deux cent seize foyers. Sa quête lui révélera l’histoire de sa famille…
The bigger problem is that Foer never lets his character wander off without an errand. In fact, there is hardly a line in this book that has not been written for the purpose of eliciting a particular emotion from the reader. The novel is a tearjerker. ...The skepticism and satire that marked the best parts of Everything Is Illuminated are nowhere in evidence here. The search for the lock that fits a mysterious key dovetails with related and parallel quests in this (literally) beautifully designed second novel from the gifted young author (Everything Is Illuminated, 2002). The searcher is nine-year-old Oskar Schell, an inventive prodigy who (albeit modeled on the protagonist of Grass's The Tin Drum) employs his considerable intellect with refreshing originality in the aftermath of his father Thomas's death following the bombing of the World Trade Center. That key, unidentified except for the word "black" on the envelope containing it, impels Oskar to seek out every New Yorker bearing the surname Black, involving him with a reclusive centenarian former war correspondent, and eventually the nameless elderly recluse who rents a room in his paternal grandma's nearby apartment. Meanwhile, unmailed letters from a likewise unidentified "Thomas" reveal their author's loneliness and guilt, while stretching backward to wartime Germany and a horrific precursor of the 9/11 atrocity: the firebombing of Dresden. In a riveting narrative animated both by Oskar's ingenuous assumption of adult responsibility and understanding (interestingly, he's "playing Yorick" in a school production of Hamlet) and the letter-writer's meaningful silences, Foer sprinkles his tricky text with interpolated illustrations that render both the objects of Oskar's many interests and the memories of a survivor who has forsworn speech, determined to avoid the pain of loving too deeply. The story climaxes as Oskar discovers what the key fits, and also the meaning of his life (all our lives, actually), in a long-awaited letter from astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Much more is revealed as this brilliant fiction works thrilling variations on, and consolations for, its plangent message: that "in the end, everyone loses everyone." Yes, but look what Foer has found. Film rights to Scott Rudin in conjunction with Warner Bros. and Paramount; author tour. Est contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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