Le cycle romanesque familial et autobiographique. Tome 3

Le Monde à peu près

Jean Rouaud

Publié par Ed Du Minuit, le 01 janvier 1996

253 pages

Résumé

Jean Rouaud's power to evoke the past is incandescent. His first two universally acclaimed novels, Fields of Glory ("Remarkable" -- New York Times; "Irresistible" -- Boston Globe) and Of illustrious Men ("Amazing" -- Philadelphia Inquirer; "A lovingly written book" -- New York Times), proved he was a worthy successor to the mantle of Proust. The first was an elegy to his grandfather and to the tragic ironies of World War I heroism; the second an elegy to his father, an ordinary man thrown into the extraordinary chaos of World War II. The World, More or Less is a portrait of the writer as a young man: myopic, dreamy, lonely, still grieving the deaths of his father and grandfather and seeking for a way to bring the confusions of adolescent life into focus. His nearsightedness gives him double vision: closing one eye brings clarity, closing the other blurs. Sharing this more-or-less world are Theo and Gyf, lover and friend, one far whom life is mystery, the other who wants to frame it in a camera lens. A crass between The Catcher in the Rye and Flaubert's Sentimental Education, The World, More or Less is a haunting story about growing up.