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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Our Life in the Forests by French author Marie Darrieussecq, is a book both strange and familiar. It’s strange because it’s set in a dystopian otherworld of clones and advanced technologies, and it’s familiar because the created society uses the common tropes of speculative fiction: haves and have-nots; clones disconcertingly like humans; inescapable surveillance systems; and rebels who have fled back to nature. Comparisons with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) are inevitable because of the theme of organ-harvesting… The narrator is one of the rebels. An orphan with no family ties (and only memories of a difficult relationship with her mother), she has fled to the forest at the instigation of a like-minded soul, and they have rescued the ‘halves’, i.e. the clones ‘bred’ to provide replacement body parts for their failing bodies. These ‘halves’ have been kept in a vegetative state in the Centre since birth: they are said to have no brains and therefore no feelings. Like other ‘lucky ones’ who have a clone, the narrator has already accessed some body parts. She’s had a lung transplant and a kidney transplant, and now she needs an eye. However, this narrator, a psychologist by trade, has developed an attachment to her clone and – having visited her daily at the Centre and now in the forest taught ‘Marie’ to walk and behave somewhat like a human – she is repelled by the idea of harvesting her organs again. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/08/10/our-life-in-the-forest-by-marie-darrieussecq... Viviane est psychologue, elle vit en l'an lointain où manifestement la pollution, l'évolution, la technique ont bouleversé la vie. Dorénavant on peut avoir son clone ou une jarre pour stocker les organes dont on pourrait avoir besoin en cas de maladie. Viviane est partie de chez elle et vit en clandestinité, elle nous relate dans son journal ce que fut sa vie. Un livre d'anticipation qui fait froid dans le dos.....excellent. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She's cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She's lost the use of one eye; she's down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular a man, "the clicker". Every two weeks, she travelled out to the Rest Centre, to visit her "half", Marie, her spitting image, who lay in an induced coma, her body parts available whenever the woman needed them. As a form of resistance against the terror in the city, the woman flees, along with other fugitives and their halves. But life in the forest is disturbing too-the reanimated halves are behaving like uninhibited adolescents. And when she sees a shocking image of herself on video, are her worst fears confirmed? Our Life in the Forest, written in her inimitable concise, vivid prose recalls Darrieusecq's brilliant debut, Pig Tales. A dystopian tale in the vein of Never Let Me Go, this is a clever novel of chilling suspense that challenges our ideas about the future, about organ-trafficking, about identity, clones, and the place of the individual in a surveillance state. Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was published in 1996 and subsequently translated into thirty-five languages. She has written some fifteen books for adults, including novels, short fiction, a play, and nonfiction works. In 2013 she was awarded both the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. Being Here, her biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker, was released in 2016. She is a regular contributor to contemporary art magazines in France and Britain and also writes for Libération and Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris. 'Our Life in the Forest is a psychologically astute novel, with a few well-executed twists that will no doubt please fans of the genre.' Saturday Paper 'Darrieussecq writes with a kind of truncated brevity that is stark, muscular and direct. The effect is immediately arresting...[Our Life in the Forest] is Atwoodesque, melding some of the brutal and unpleasant aspects of our current moment into a plausible but avoidable future.' Overland 'Darrieussecq's writing brings the story to life vividly in your mind.' Good Reading 'The reader will be captivated by Darrieussecq's hypnotic style.' Le Monde 'The title could be "Our Life in the Future", but reducing this book to a dystopian tale is doing it a disservice...A journal from beyond the grave, as time runs out...And a profound novel about loneliness.' Libération 'In this exceptional novel, the author of Pig Tales describes a world in the future where surveillance is omnipresent and clones rule...An unusual, strange book.' L'Observateur 'A disturbing dystopian tale in which tragedy and irony work together...Ingeniously and brilliantly, Marie Darrieussecq's sparkling tale adds to the classics of futuristic fiction. Even more profound than the social and political resonance of this novel is the theme of loneliness.' Télérama 'In this brilliantly executed dystopia, Marie Darrieussecq writes with rare skill about the concerns of our time-the senseless destruction of the planet and transhumanist madness. Outstanding.' Le Matin Dimanche 'Who would have thought Marie Darrieussecq would write a thriller? This brief, feminist and political novel is perhaps her most inventive...With wit and elegance, the author takes us into a narrative full of tension, and with the same humour as in Pig Tales. Once again, she creates an absurd world, and denounces the failings of our society.' Les Inrockuptibles 'Once again, Darrieusecq gives us a passionate investigation into the deficiencies, transformations and lapses in our humanity...A little like Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, she shows how literature is our best means to disrupt functionality. Focus Vif. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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https://theidlewoman.net/2019/02/05/our-life-in-the-forest-marie-darrieussecq/ ( )