Gisele Pineau
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Opere di Gisele Pineau
Femmes des Antilles: Traces et voix : cent cinquante ans apres l'abolition de l'esclavage (1998) 6 copie
Folie, aller simple 1 copia
L'Espérance macadam 1 copia
La Guadeloupe à travers la carte postale ancienne (Régions d'antan) (French Edition) (2016) 1 copia
Taste Of Eternity 1 copia
Fuoco 1 copia
Drifting Of Spirits 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1956
- Sesso
- female
- NazionalitÃ
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Paris, France
Martinique, France
Guadeloupe, France - Istruzione
- Université de Nanterre (literature)
- Attività lavorative
- Psychiatric nurse
Utenti
Recensioni
Exile according to Julia di Gisèle Pineau
This manages a number of stylistic and tonal shifts quite smoothly, has a very autobiographical feel. A deeply loving portrait of a Guadalupean grandmother through the eyes of a maturing child whose perspective shifts as she ages and moves to France and then Guadalupe. Googling I learned the author is a psychiatric nurse.
Guadalupe.
The appended essay on Créolité ("Afterword") notwithstanding, I didn't find The Drifting of Spirits compelling or especially interesting. Perhaps it was a translation issue, but I never felt emotionally engaged with any of the characters. They seemed more cartoonish than I was expecting as well. In this way it reminded me of many of Kim Stanley Robinson's books (such as the Mars trilogy). Also an award winner, Robinson has the same distanced style in which the characters, no matter how vividly they are described, retain a cool distance from the reader; his plots, like this one, sprawl and are unpredictable, forcing the reader to be passive in relation to the story. The message of The Drifting of Spirits seems to be that no matter how good or decent you are, evil will take you down. I don't mind the fatalism, but I am left thinking that if this was the point, it might be better served by a poem than a novel.… (altro)
The appended essay on Créolité ("Afterword") notwithstanding, I didn't find The Drifting of Spirits compelling or especially interesting. Perhaps it was a translation issue, but I never felt emotionally engaged with any of the characters. They seemed more cartoonish than I was expecting as well. In this way it reminded me of many of Kim Stanley Robinson's books (such as the Mars trilogy). Also an award winner, Robinson has the same distanced style in which the characters, no matter how vividly they are described, retain a cool distance from the reader; his plots, like this one, sprawl and are unpredictable, forcing the reader to be passive in relation to the story. The message of The Drifting of Spirits seems to be that no matter how good or decent you are, evil will take you down. I don't mind the fatalism, but I am left thinking that if this was the point, it might be better served by a poem than a novel.… (altro)
As a second-language learner, this book had a lot of new vocabulary for me. However, I enjoyed the story and how it crossed cultures. It is only 5 chapters long, but they are long chapters.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Utenti
- 223
- PopolaritÃ
- #100,550
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 52
- Lingue
- 5