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Chargement... Stranger in a Strange Land (original 1961; édition 1991)par Robert A. Heinlein (Auteur)
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The great falling off in the quality of Heinlein's work came during the period that brought "Stranger in a Strange Land." Jubal Harshaw--who says things like "What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation"--is the first of a series of pompous libertarian windbags whose oral methane makes all of Heinlein's later tomes into rapidly emptying locker rooms. Most of the material added to this new edition seems to consist of speeches by Jubal, and the rest of the new material includes nominally "shocking" sections that, aired in 1990, are glaringly sexist. For instance, lovable Jill volunteers the opinion that "Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's at least partly her own fault." Appartient à la série éditorialeFait l'objet d'une version longue dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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HTML: Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with "psi" powersâ??telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of othersâ??and complete innocence regarding the mores of man. After his tutelage under a surrogate father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a kind of messiah. His exceptional abilities lead him to become many things to many people: freak, scam artist, media commodity, searcher, free love pioneer, neon evangelist, and martyr. Heinlein won his second Hugo Award for this novel, sometimes called his "divine comedy" and often called his masterpiece. This Blackstone audiobook is the "as published" version, read from an Ace paperback published in 1987. The full, uncut text was not made available until 1991 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Caricatural et simpliste, il propose les mêmes ficelles grossières que dans Double étoile mais on n'a plus cet effet de surprise qu'on a en lisant une oeuvre de cette époque "Oh, ils étaient si touchants à cette époque, ça se vendait une histoire pareille..."
Et ce ton irrévérencieux (mais pas trop)... Certes, ça a dû défriser quelques moustaches puritaines à l'époque et enthousiasmer les ados mais c'est totalement gratuit, les personnages n'ont aucune étoffe, ça se sert pas à la narration.
Au final, ce qui sauve ce bouquin de la pire des notes, c'est l'évocation de la culture martienne, description plus audacieuse que ce qu'à pu faire Bradbury auparavant. ( )