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Chargement... En medio de ninguna parte / In The Heart of the Country (Literaturea mondadori / Mondadori Literature) (Spanish Edition) (original 1977; édition 2003)par J. M. Coetzee (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreAu coeur de ce pays par J. M. Coetzee (1977)
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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. Set in a barren part of South Africa and narrated by a spinster daughter, this tense tale will keep readers in suspense the entire book. The 5 stars are for the writing and conception of such a character, and the intelligence apparent throughout. It wasn't an easy read because the main character has mental issues, but it was powerful. The story is a study on extreme loneliness and isolation, devoid of love, touch, and caring, cut off from discourse with other people. The father in this story appears cold towards the daughter, at least from her perspective. It's hard to tell what reality is, and Magda, the daughter, plays out various scenarios in her mind. She's intelligent and introspective, reasonably well read, and yet knows little about normal life outside of the few people in her life and the vast land on which she lives. The book is a fascinating psychological essay. Brilliant, probably beyond my understanding. This slim volume is utterly unforgettable. The author has won two Booker Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'd recommend the book to people who like literary works. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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"I do not think it was ever intended that people should live her. This is a lone made for insects who eat sand and lay eggs in each others corpses and have no voices with which to scream when they die."
This short novel is one of Coetzee's early works. It consists of 206 numbered passages, which are generally short, some merely a short paragraph long. Coetzee has said that in structuring the novel he was influenced by film and photographic methods. And despite being short, the chapters and the prose are frequently dense and require (at least for me) much concentration to read.
The narrator, Magda, lives on a sheep farm deep in the veldt with her widowed father. The story she tells is disturbing, and we sense from the beginning that Magda is/will be an unreliable narrator. We can never be sure whether Magda is telling the truth, or whether the events she described even actually happened. What we can be sure of is that the novel follows the descent and decline of Magda as she (probably) kills her father, and is slowly starving herself, as all around her the farm deteriorates.
Not an easy read, but very powerful.
4 stars ( )