En cours de chargement...
Based upon an actual reform school in mid-twentieth century Florida, the Nickel Academy is the setting of Colson Whitehead's horrifying tale of racial injustice and abuse which represents nothing less than the American counterpart to the Siberian gulags denounced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his own writings. The reader is quickly plunged into Elwood Curtis' Kafkaesque nightmare springing from his arrest on totally spurious grounds. But beware : Whitehead does not cede to facile fantasies of black rage, for Elwood's unsinkable idealism is based upon Reverend King's calls for loving one's enemies.
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moral paradox is a dual-edged sword of uncertain worth, lest one forget King's vision of the long arc of history, no matter how Elwood's companion in suffering Turner feels about the legitimacy of loving one's enemies to death. Haunting and thought-provoking, a future classic.
Dans son essai richement documenté, Anthony Galluzzo nous révèle les aspects idéologiques et scientifiques cachés derrière l'omniprésence de marchandise dans notre vie. En prenant comme point du départ le début du dix-neuvième siècle , le lecteur acquit une appréciation de l'influence des nouvelles méthodes de la diffusion des biens et d'information qui ont mené à une transformation radicale de l'identité de l'individu lorsqu'on n'est plus associé personnellement avec l'élaboration de nos biens. Une lecture stimulante avec une qualité d'analyse et d'écriture très limpide aussi.
The road to 'normalcy'
Sally Rooney has succeeded in surmounting the trap of the second novel in the wake of the major critical success of 'Conversations With Friends'. In reality, 'Normal People' is a much more compelling novel addressing a wide variety of contemporary issues (fluidity of human relations, the immutability of social class ties, notably) through the story of a rather different boy meets girl scenario. Everything seems to divide Marianne from Connell, yet they continue to exert a mutual influence upon one another despite the psychological or geographical distances which mark their relationship. Rooney is gifted with the pointillist's talent for detail and description that fills 'Normal People' with revelatory epiphanies that will never cease to surprise the reader. It is the rare writer who can render interesting a universal theme of human relations and love : a rewarding and bittersweet work of literature.