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WHITE EDMUND
BLOOMSBURY
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EAN :9780747549574
A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. Entering the Marais evokes the history of Jews in France, a visit to the Haynes Grill recalls the presence - festive, troubled - of black Americans in Paris for a century and a half. Gays, Decadents, even Royalists past and present are all subjected to the flâneurs scrutiny. In his opinionated fashion, the flâneur visits bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, providing gossip and background to each site, looking through the blank walls past the proud edifices to glimpse the inner human drama. Along the way he recounts everything from the latest debates among French lawmakers to the juicy details of Colette's life. In this, the first book in The Writer and the City series, Edmund White lures the reader into the fascinating backstreets of his personal Paris. It is an exhilarating adventure with a most seductive companion.
Résumé : Au début des années 1820, une digne dame anglaise nommée Frances Trollope rencontre l'aventurière Fanny Wright. Celle-ci, toute vibrante d'idées utopistes, entraîne Frances et sa famille aux Etats-Unis, sur la trace du marquis de La Fayette, héros vénérable de l'histoire américaine. Frances, la narratrice, découvre une Amérique à peine civilisée où l'esclavage fait rage, où les hommes crachent du tabac sur les robes des femmes et où les idées socialistes côtoient un puritanisme naissant. Après un passage en Haïti, le voyage se termine en Italie. Fanny Wright et Frances Trollope ont bien existé, la seconde a écrit de nombreux récits et romans, mais la femme truculente et attachante que l'on découvre dans ces pages est une pure invention d'Edmund White. Le romancier décrit les contrastes d'une Angleterre usée, corsetée, et d'une Amérique toute jeune dont certains excès ne surprendront pas le lecteur du XXIe siècle... Ce roman, plein d'esprit et de vie, est une fantaisie non dénuée de profondeur, écrite par un auteur qui montre ici toutes ses capacités d'invention et de renouvellement.
Résumé : PETITE BIBLIOTHEQUE AMERICAINE Les rôdeurs se glissent à pas de loup dans le noir, le long des quais endormis ? Un jeune homme fasciné observe leur manège, tandis que des morceaux épars de son passé lui reviennent en mémoire. Ce voyage dans un temps irrémédiablement perdu - les ruines d'une enfance saccagée, les rites nocturnes de l'homosexualité et l'apprentissage de la solitude - est aussi une suite de variations musicales autour d'un même thème : la fin d'une passion inspirée par un être exceptionnel. Mais l'amour existe-t-il ailleurs que dans notre mémoire ?
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