Agneau Noir et agneau gris: Un voyage à travers la Yougoslavie

Rebecca West

Publié par L'Age d'Homme, le 01 septembre 2000

908 pages

Résumé

'Agneau noir et faucon gris' est l'œuvre grâce à laquelle l'illustre écrivain et féministe anglaise est entrée dans l'immortalité littéraire. « Le plus grand livre du XXe siècle », selon H. G. Wells. De son voyage en Yougoslavie, en 1937, Rebecca West a tiré cette fresque magistrale où les paysages et les gens, l'histoire, les cultures et les religions sont dépeints avec une intelligence aiguë et une rare sympathie humaine.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a 1000-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb & Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the 1st time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, "because it most resembled the country I have always seen between sleeping & waking, & partly because it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it's West following that strand of wool: thru countless historical digressions; thru winding narratives of battles, slavery & assassinations; thru Shakespeare & Augustine & into the very heart of human frailty.PrologueJourneyCroatiaDalmatiaExpeditionHerzegovinaBosniaSerbiaMacedoniaOld SerbiaMontenegroEpilogueBibliographical NoteIndex

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