En cours de chargement...
"Il n' y a pas de médicament sur terre pour donner du sens à la vie".
"There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful"
Beckett, you genius.
Une pièce de théatre triste mais drôle par moment à propos du monde absurde dans lequel nous vivons...
Un témoignage fort et bouleversant sur les mutilations génitales qui ont forcés l'auteur à fuir son pays.
Beau, brutal et optimiste.
I read A Room With a View and hated it thus I was more than reluctant to give a go to another novel of his; boy! I'm so glad I did not give up on this author.
Maurice is a beautiful, sad, optimistic, realistic, heartbreaking story.
I was blown away by the way he mingled Love with class struggle, conventions, so-called normality, religion.
I did not expect such a happy end as it was considered a crime to be attracted to a person with whom one shared the same gender. I loved this optimism despite everything being against them.
His powerful and beautiful prose made me want to take each sentence
completely in, absorb them before moving to the other. I reread several passages, sentences more than twice.
I always find it amusing yet irritating that when a book has such an impact on me, I find myself at loss with words. I would laugh if I was not so shaken (ooh we"re getting a bit dramatic here...) I would like to explain why this book is a masterpiece and all that jazz; but reading is such a personal experience and this book touches me at such personal levels that it would be a waste of time trying to put words to what this book makes me feel, on what it makes me aspire to as a person and for everything else in life.
This book embodies unapologetically the quote "I would rather die on my feet
than live on my knees", which oddly enough Camus was fond of.
Finally, needless to say, that the writing is beautiful, but nonetheless I would like to say it. Her writing style is what touches me most, it corresponds to what I seek in books, litterature fiction, or otherwise.
Première lecture de ce roman absolument inconnu au bataillon à la fac a été une révélation.
Judith a dix-huit ans dans l'après-guerre de 14-18 en Angleterre, ce pays austère dont les blessures sont encore trop présentes et récentes.
Alors sa rencontre avec la riche famille Fyfe va l'embarquer dans un tourbillon de paillettes, de rire et de vie! Une vie telle qu'elle ne pensait qu'elle pouvait être vécue. Mais au final, que reste-t-il de ses souvenirs, ces êtres à part?
Envoutant, suffocant par moment et sublime.
Quand j'ai commencé ma lecture de ce chef d'oeuvre j'avais une idée completement faussé de ce qui allait m'attendre. J'ai été surpris, pris de court, époustoufflé tout au long de ma lecture dont le livre couvre des thématiques aussi diverses que variées.
N'hésitez pas, n'ayez crainte plongez-vous sans plus attendre dans cette fabuleuse oeuvre littéraire.
Dans ce recueil d'essaies Audre Lorde noue l'intime, le personnel, le politique dans ces engagements.
Puissant et révélateur d'une partie de la société qui est continuellement effacé de l'histoire.
Un brilliant intemporel ou nous est présenté Jane Eyre, jeune femme indépendante qui va aller à l'encontre de toutes les attentes de la société pour les femmes.
Puissant, éternel.
Poetry
A Time For New Dreams is a painfully, overwhelmingly beautiful collection of poetic essays about childhood, Africa, being a writer, responsibility, and honor of being a poet, poetry, life, London, photography and so much!
Those are some of my favourites essays:
"Books are like mirrors. Don't just read the words. Go into the mirror. That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That's where the god's dream, where our realities are born".
"Africa is our dreamland, our spiritual homeland."
"It's Africa turn to smile."
"That would be the loveliest gift of the twenty-first century: to make Africa smile."
"Then humanity can begin to think of the universe, even the remote stars, as its true home.
"Read the world. It is the most mysterious book of all."