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Dormance
La dormance d'une graine est le pouvoir qu'elle tient, sous l'apparence du sommeil, de germer si les conditions deviennent favorables à telle transformation. Il sera bien question de graines, dont le destin eut pour l'humanité la plus haute importance. Mais surtout se révèle une dormance des images : leur aptitude à reparaître, puis à hanter - ici de façon heureuse - nos nuits et nos rêveries. Images de ce qui fut et serait moins oublié, moins perdu, qu'on ne le croit. Convoqué, bientôt habité, par de jeunes personnages autour desquels se tissent événements, saisons, bêtes et paysages, amour, violence ou peine - présences ressurgies à travers une nuit d'épaisseur non mesurable -, voici que le narrateur, après hésitation, s'ouvre par l'écriture même une contrée dont il ignorait l'existence si prêt de sa maison natale. Dans un demi-sommeil, il avance, exalté, fouille la terre comme, en lui, une mémoire antérieure à sa vie, il trouve des visages, des objets et des bruits, un récit que le temps ronge encore.
324 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2000
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January 18, 2025
Jean Loup Trassard is a literary menace and should be stopped. I am only writing this review to warn everyone.
It starts in medias res but you never get to understand any situation whatsoever. It’s like it was described to you by a blind witness. I sat through hundreds of pages roughly describing foliage in a forest (not the aesthetic kind) and people putting one foot after the other in some sort of migration westward.
The only thing I’m approximately sure of is that it’s a dual timeline from today to Neolithic times. So all throughout you just don’t understand anything. Don’t get me started on the poor metaphors linking the female body to the earth. You cannot be « celebrating » a woman that much and then saying they were unable to hunt and just collected berries. That’s misogyny.
And they managed to only ever kill off my sole favourite character. And mind you there is no plot!!
I get it that it’s supposed to be experimental, and a bonus star for the effort, but no more than two stars because it was a pain to read. Really a pain to read and understand.
It starts in medias res but you never get to understand any situation whatsoever. It’s like it was described to you by a blind witness. I sat through hundreds of pages roughly describing foliage in a forest (not the aesthetic kind) and people putting one foot after the other in some sort of migration westward.
The only thing I’m approximately sure of is that it’s a dual timeline from today to Neolithic times. So all throughout you just don’t understand anything. Don’t get me started on the poor metaphors linking the female body to the earth. You cannot be « celebrating » a woman that much and then saying they were unable to hunt and just collected berries. That’s misogyny.
And they managed to only ever kill off my sole favourite character. And mind you there is no plot!!
I get it that it’s supposed to be experimental, and a bonus star for the effort, but no more than two stars because it was a pain to read. Really a pain to read and understand.
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September 27, 2016
[2,5/5 La moyenne quoi! Livre pour Lettres Modernes encore, sur le thème du roman préhistorique. Pas facile à lire mais une fois lancé ça va, il y a pire. Un peu déçue par la fin.]
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