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Saga des Vialhe #3
L'Appel des Engoulevents
378pages. 18x11x2cm. Poche. Chaque maison cache un secret, les murs ont des oreilles mais la bouche cousue. Il faut poser longtemps la joue contre leur sein, ccmme un docteur fivreux, pour les entendre respirer. A Dun-le-Palestel, dans la Creuse, la maison de famille du narrateur en a si gros sur le cur et tant dire qu'on va la confesser, pice aprs pice, l'couter se raconter, souvenirs drangs, vrits arranges, les choses et les gens tels qu'ils furent, les chos et les ombres qu'il en reste. Elle finira bien par lcher cequ'elle sait. Elle sait l'histoire d'un pre qui, lui, avait choisi de se taire.
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First published September 25, 1992
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July 14, 2016
Je reprocherai à ce troisième tome une certaine lenteur à démarrer. C'est que le lecteur doit faire la connaissance des enfants et petits-enfants des Vialhe et de leurs parentèle. Et qu'ils sont dispersés aux quatre coins du monde. Chaque chapitre vous emmène dans un lieu différent avec un personnage différent et j'avoue que j'ai eu un peu de mal à m'y retrouver. A 30% du livre, j'ai retrouvé mon plaisir à lire cette saga familiale.
Quatre étoiles, donc.
Quatre étoiles, donc.
August 3, 2016
Not as good as the first two volumes, but entertaining nevertheless.
July 17, 2019
Encore une fois, je ne suis pas déçu par ce nouveau volet de la famille Vialhe.
October 29, 2024
Les deux premiers tomes sont passionnants. Celui-ci beaucoup moins ... ça va, ça vient, ça ressasse et ça se répète, mais ça n'avance pas beaucoup.
April 17, 2016
I took over 10 months to read it. Not because it is slow or ponderous or uninteresting but because something like this had to be savoured. Read at the right time, in the right frame of mind to do it justice.
The prose is good but not great. The plot often meanders and repeats itself. But the truth of the lived experience shines through. It is that which is engaging, thrilling even.
The French countryside is a wondrous place and any novel set there will have me as part of an eager readership any day. But this goes beyond it. Michelet doesn't over-romanticise the place. It has its share of human foibles, anger and tragedy. The challenges are many as France modernises itself and the towns like Saint Liberal age while new economic opportunities are hard to come by. There is a sense of an inevitable decline setting in. But amongst all this, there is hope. Of a new generation picking up the baton. But even more than that, there is grace. In the way the characters, the people deal with the change. It is this grace that lives on the pages of this final installment of the Vialhe Saga.
The prose is good but not great. The plot often meanders and repeats itself. But the truth of the lived experience shines through. It is that which is engaging, thrilling even.
The French countryside is a wondrous place and any novel set there will have me as part of an eager readership any day. But this goes beyond it. Michelet doesn't over-romanticise the place. It has its share of human foibles, anger and tragedy. The challenges are many as France modernises itself and the towns like Saint Liberal age while new economic opportunities are hard to come by. There is a sense of an inevitable decline setting in. But amongst all this, there is hope. Of a new generation picking up the baton. But even more than that, there is grace. In the way the characters, the people deal with the change. It is this grace that lives on the pages of this final installment of the Vialhe Saga.
September 20, 2015
Enjoyed this book but think I need to read the previous 2 books to get the full feel of the Vialhe family.
March 25, 2013
Enjoyed it as much as the others!
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