Les bouquins du mardi - Ivan Garcia Louise Erdrich's latest novel covers a young woman's escape...
The story takes place over a hundred years ago in the United States. The class struggle rages on, and Jack London spits in our faces the ugliness of the world through a brilliant love story. Martin Eden deserves to be discovered in its recent audio version.
Plongée dans le quotidien loufoque d'un hooligan
A new, much more rhythmic translation.
An almost philosophical tale
Critique cocasse d'une pseudo-élite américaine.
A tribute to railway station literature
Portnoy et son complexe«, the 1969 novel that earned American author Philip Roth his sulphurous reputation, is a must-read. The author had already published a collection of short stories ten years earlier, »Goodbye, Columbus«, which was not a success. Nevertheless, Roth's obsessive themes were already present, starting of course with Jewishness. Like all geniuses, Roth is obsessive. Imagine a Tarantino who wasn't obsessive, or a Proust, a Polnareff, a Flaubert or a Kubrick. And there's one obsession that runs through the whole of »Portnoy and His Complex«: sex.
Dying stupidly from a bayonet wound because you refuse to submit to any moral order. To end up shredded on the battlefield like a piece of meat because you refused the inculcation of any tradition. Is it worth it? The question echoes the term «indignation» - the feeling of anger that arises from an action that offends the moral conscience, the sense of justice - the title of the late Philip Roth's novel.
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