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Fiche de lecture : The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir d'Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (2017) par Jillian Bruns, publié le 25/03/2021
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Deckle Edge, 2017). French translation: L’empreinte (2020).
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The Travelers, Regina Porter (2019) par Jillian Bruns, publié le 23/02/2021
Fiche de lecture du roman "The Travelers" de Regina Porter.
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Fiche de lecture : Wish You Were Here, Graham Swift par Mathilde Le Clainche, publié le 20/09/2016
La guerre est un thème récurrent chez Graham Swift. La seconde guerre mondiale est par exemple évoquée dans Last Orders (1996) ou encore dans Shuttlecock (1981), où le récit du père du narrateur, retenu prisonnier, constitue le cœur du texte. Wish You Were Here (2011) semble s’inscrire dans la lignée de ces romans puisque le récit est notamment marqué par les allusions aux commémorations annuelles de la première Guerre mondiale.
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The Brooklyn Follies: extracts par Juliette Tran, publié le 08/10/2009
« I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain. »
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Fiche de lecture : Liver, Will Self par Jocelyn Dupont, publié le 24/09/2009
A review of Will Self's collection of novellas, Liver.
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Fiche de lecture : Possession, A.S. Byatt par Christine Bini, publié le 05/03/2009
Roland Michell, jeune chercheur spécialiste de l’œuvre du poète victorien Randolph Henry Ash, découvre – et dérobe – deux lettres du poète, qui laissent présager d’une liaison avec une jeune femme, elle-même poète et écrivain, qu’il identifiera comme étant Christabel LaMotte. En suivant cette piste, qui a toutes les chances de révolutionner les recherches en cours sur la période, il fait la connaissance de Maud Bailey, universitaire froide et élégante, spécialiste de l’œuvre de Christabel.
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Fiche de lecture : The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster par Juliette Tran, publié le 05/07/2008
A review of Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies.
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Fiche de lecture : The Good Life, Jay McInerney par Armelle Calonne, publié le 07/05/2008
The Good Life is a story about many things: it deals with love and loss, with life and death, with contradictory feelings that, in the end, are all but one.
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Fiche de lecture : Arthur and George, Julian Barnes par Thibaud Harrois, publié le 07/05/2008
The novel is based on an actual story, known as the "Great Wyrley Outrages". At the end of the 19th century, George Edalji, a solicitor from Great Wyrley, a village near Birmingham, was wrongly found guilty of slaying a number of farm animals. He was sentenced to seven years in jail. In 1906, Edalji was released but he was not pardoned. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was involved in the case. Indeed, he tried to prove the man's innocence and was at the source of what was considered as an English Dreyfus Case.
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Fiche de lecture : The Bear Boy, Cynthia Ozick par Anne Musset, publié le 07/05/2008
The story is set in the outskirts of the Bronx in 1935. Rose Meadows, orphaned at the age of 18, becomes an assistant to Professor Mitwisser, a specialist of a 9th-century heretic Jewish sect. Professor Mitwisser, his wife (a renowned physicist but now a near-madwoman) and their five children are German refugees who survive thanks to their young benefactor James A’Bair. James is heir to the fortune amassed by his father, who took him as a model for a very popular series of children’s books called The Bear Boy. James is extremely wealthy but troubled, dispossessed of his identity. He leads a nomadic life and his latest whim is to support the Mitwisser family. Rose enters into this chaotic household, which becomes even more unstable with the arrival of James. Very soon this little precarious world verges on disaster.
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Fiche de lecture : On Beauty, Zadie Smith par Claire Poinsot, publié le 07/05/2008
The Belseys have always claimed to be liberal and atheist, but when their eldest son Jerome goes to work as an intern in England with his father Howard’s enemy the, ultra-conservative Christian Monty Kipps, there are bound to be a few mishaps. When Jerome finally returns home, the Kipps in turn move to Wellington, the town where the Belseys live. Working at the same university, Howard and Monty develop a rivalry, while their wives become friends. The novel hinges on the mirror effects and the interactions between the two families. Their relationship is a complex one which includes friendship, rivalry, lust and envy. Each family will have problems to solve, both personal and professional.
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Fiche de lecture : Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer par Alice Bonzom, publié le 07/05/2008
The novel narrates the story of Oskar Schell, a precocious nine-year-old inventor, pacifist, percussionist, and Francophile, whose father died during the attacks of 9/11. A couple of years after his father’s death, he finds a mysterious key in an envelope with the name “Black” on it, in a vase in a closet. Sure that the key belonged to his father, he decides to visit everyone named “Black” in the five boroughs of New York to discover what it opens. Intertwined with Oskar’s quest are letters written by his grandparents, who went through the bombings of Dresden in the Second World War.
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Fiche de lecture : Celebration, Harold Pinter par Juliette Dorotte, publié le 07/05/2008
In a posh restaurant, two couples of friends, Matt and Prue, and Lambert and Julie, are having lunch. They are together to celebrate Lambert and Julie's wedding anniversary, but the mood is not proper to celebration. At an adjacent table, another couple is having a talk. Revelations are fusing on both sides: the man had an affair, and the woman reveals the dark side of her past. Before the six characters meet and make the general atmosphere even tenser, three characters come and go between the tables: the owner of the restaurant, a waitress, and a mythomaniac waiter.
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Fiche de lecture : The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen par Auréliane Narvaez, publié le 03/05/2008
Thirty years after the colorful 1970’s, hurricane Katrina, the Bush Administration’s failure, social inequalities are proof that America is sinking into the Discomfort Zone, along with the narrator who gives way to his discrete feeling of helplessness and invites us to live with it the way he does in a disenchanted but yet humourous way.
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Fiche de lecture : Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen par Mélanie Roche, publié le 03/05/2008
Cohen's poetry – the title of the book makes no mystery of it – deals essentially with longing: longing for women, for God, or simply truth. What emerges from the whole book is the idea of an irretrievable loss. From the beginning, we learn that in spite of the author's retreat on Mount Baldy, enlightenment has hardly touched him: he has found neither God nor any essential truth.
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Fiche de lecture : Blackbird, David Harrower par Valentine Vasak, publié le 03/05/2008
An unmanned canteen, food leftovers are spilt over the floor. Una, a young woman in her late twenties, pays a visit to Ray at his workplace; a photo of him in a trade magazine has put her on his track. The last time she saw him, she was twelve and he was over forty, they haven’t set eyes on each other since. Ray happens to be her former lover, the man who took her virginity when she was not even pubescent. Together they go over grievous memories: the disgrace that followed the disclosure of their affair for both Una whose parents refused to quit the neighbourhood exposing her to public humiliation, and Ray who spent six years in prison. Gradually, bygone feelings resurface questioning the morally unacceptable nature of their relationship.
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Fiche de lecture : The Body, Hanif Kureishi par Laura Menard, publié le 03/05/2008
The narrator of Hanif Kureishi’s novella is a British playwright in his mid-sixties called Adam who experiences the difficulty of living as an aging man. His struggle to maintain his self-esteem and joie de vivre prompts him to give a very cynical account of the old people’s situation in a society ruled by beauty, youth and desire. Adam’s gloomy life takes a favorable turn – or so he thinks … - when he meets Ralph, a handsome and young admirer of his, who secretly informs him he can look just as healthy and fit as he: he may be operated on to have his mind transferred from his old, decaying body to a New Body.
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