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Chargement... Angels: A Novel (original 1983; édition 2002)par Denis Johnson
Information sur l'oeuvreAngels par Denis Johnson (1983)
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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. Bra driven historia som är fin berättad, trots allt det onda som händer. Karaktärerna håller och man avslutar boken funderandes över livet. ( ) Tutti i personaggi di Angels, dall'inizio alla fine sono destinati al fallimento e il lettore se ne accorge subito: le loro azioni e le loro conversazioni, le loro storie, sono quelle dei rifiuti e degli scarti della società che tuttavia a causa di alcol e droghe, ma anche semplicemente una buona dose di ingenuità, non capiscono veramente quale sia il divario che separa loro dagli altri e perciò, con quasi bambinesca speranza si trovano a sognare in un futuro migliore anche se quello che i mezzi con cui si promettono di raggiungerlo non sono mai leciti ed onesti. Jamie scappa di casa portando con sé le sue due figlie, Miranda di sei anni e Baby Ellen di appena tre mesi, abbandonando il marito abusivo. Il piano era quello di raggiungere un'amica disposta ad ospitarle tutte e tre, ma Jamie e le bambine non la incontreranno mai poiché sul bus incontrano William H. Houston jr., ex marine ed ex carcerato che ne costituirà soltanto il mezzo per una discesa più veloce nell'abisso. Da una review che ho trovato: "[...] Ma il talento di Johnson è tale che ti porta ad interessarti per queste vite povere e rovinate. Inizi a vederli come tristi e rovinati 'angeli'. Per parafrasare Willy Nelson, loro sono angeli che stanno volando troppo vicini al suolo". ultima pagina: " [...] ma questa non era che una storia, una cosa che la gente raccontava, una cosa così, tanto per far passare il tempo, il tempo necessario perché la violenza che sta dentro a un uomo lo distrugga completamente, o si consumi in se stessa, a seconda di chi è la candela e di chi è la luce." "Angels" is an excellent novel. What sets this apart from a straightforward crime novel, like Johnson's "Nobody Move," are the poetic and metaphysical flourishes that accompany the character's experiences in the seedier corridors of the american experience. Johnson isn't sentimental with his realism and doesn't romanticize the trajectory of the down and out characters that populate "Angels." ---- As the first novel in my attempt to reread this year, Angels was as riveting and provocative as the first time I read it. This time around, I appreciated Johnson's treatment of Jamie's psychotic break moreso than my first read. These struck me with more dread and terror the more I've deleved into reading literature on psychosis and I thought he had some visercal understanding of the fear and paranoia, in particular. ANGELS (1983) was Denis Johnson's first novel, but it's the fourth of his books that I've read, and, like the others, it leaves me wanting to read more from this ultra-talented writer. Like the stories in JESUS' SON, in ANGELS we are given characters who inhabit the fringes, the underbelly of society, embittered and addled by drugs and drink, abused women, neglected children, and petty criminals who stumble clumsily into major misdoings, sealing their fate. The Houston brothers, Bill Junior, James and Burris, along with Jamie Mays, a fugitive from an abusive marriage, are standard Johnson types. Jamie, fleeing cross-country from Oakland with her two small children, meets Bill Houston (ex-Navy, ex-con) on a Greyhound bus, and begins a sordid, and sometimes violent and brutal, odyssey through seedy hotels and bars in Pittsburgh and Chicago, finally ending up in Phoenix where a bank robbery by Bill and his brothers goes horribly wrong. Sordid? Yes, absolutely. But Johnson's talent is such that he makes you care about these tapped-out ruined lives. You begin to see them as sad, tarnished 'angels.' To paraphrase Willy Nelson, they are "angels flying WAY too close to the ground." In trying to make comparisons, I thought of the hardboiled fiction of Jim Thompson and Charles Bukowski, but Johnson's writing is a cut above, more artful. And his doomed characters will linger a lot longer. Yes. This is indeed art. My highest recommendation. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Angels puts Jamie Mays--a runaway wife toting along two kids--and Bill Houston--ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con--on a Greyhound bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination is a last stop marked by stunning violence and mind-shattering surprise. Denis Johnson, known for his portraits of America's dispossessed, sets off literary pyrotechnics on this highway odyssey, lighting the trek with wit and a personal metaphysics that defiantly takes on the world.--Amazon.com. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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