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Sto caricando le informazioni... Volkswagen blues (1984)di Jacques Poulin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Poulin-Volkswagen-Blues/22269 > Paru en 1984, Volkswagen blues rappelle le roman Sur la route de Jack Kerouac, abordant les thèmes du voyage et de l'américanité à travers les péripéties du personnage principal, Jack Waterman, un écrivain qui part de Gaspé à la recherche de son frère Théo, en compagnie d'une jeune métisse surnommée la Grande Sauterelle. le voyage l'amène à traverser l'Amérique jusqu'à San Francisco où il retrouve son frère qui se déplace en fauteuil roulant. Volkswagen blues est un roman d'errance où l'on croise les fantômes de quelques « clochards célestes ». Si l'Amérique s'est construite dans la violence, Jack et la Grande Sauterelle récusent cet héritage et aspirent à la paix. C'est aussi un roman d'amour émouvant et feutré, tout en retenue, où domine – comme dans la conquête de l'Ouest – la soif de liberté. —ICI.Radio-Canada.ca > Un livre n'est jamais complet en lui-même ; si on veut le comprendre, il faut le mettre en rapport avec d'autres livres, non seulement avec les livres du même auteur, mais aussi avec des livres écrits par d'autres personnes. Ce que l'on croit être un livre n'est la plupart du temps qu'une partie d'un autre livre plus vaste auquel plusieurs auteurs ont collaboré sans le savoir. (p. 169) A surprisingly gentle, reflective, québecois road novel in which two slightly lost souls, assisted by an ancient VW camper van and a kitten, go on a quest to rediscover their real identities on a journey from the mouth of the St Lawrence River to San Francisco. Along the way they work themselves through a great deal of North American history (via the things they see and the "borrowed" library books they read to each other), looking both at the often-overlooked French voyageur tradition and at the fate of the Native Americans as Europeans moved into their lands. Neither story turns out to be quite as straightforward as we think it's going to be. Very enjoyable. (Fiction, Canadian, Quebecois, translated) I’ve wanted to read this since Rock Carrier championed it in CBC’s Canada Reads in 2005. Translated from French, VW Blues is the story of an impulsive road trip from Gaspe in Quebec to Las Vegas, Nevada to find the protagonist’s brother, with whom he has had no contact for 20 years. I thought it dragged in spots although, in the end, everything tied together. Read this: if you’ve thought about going off to find long-lost relatives. 3½ stars nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey -- through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California -- becomes a metaphor for the exploration of the history of the French in North America. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I read the English translation by Sheila Fischman; normally I don't read French books in translation, but for Sheila Fischman I make an exception.
The English translation was a Canada Reads finalist in 2005, so I was surprised to learn that this book was first published in the mid-1980s! The Canada Reads thing threw off my sense of timing. ( )