TRAIN D ENFER

by Trevor Ferguson

TRAIN D’ENFER est une vertigineuse plongée dans un monde halluciné, violent et sans mesure où la crainte des lois ne balise plus la conduite des hommes. Aux confins de la taïga, des ouvriers construisent le chemin de fer du Grand Lac des Esclaves. C’est une véritable ruée vers l’or. Et l’occasion de s’en mettre plein les poches pour quelques-uns. Sortis des asiles ou des prisons, coupés de la civilisation, ces esclaves de l’ère moderne peinent et suent sous la férule d’un contremaître véreux que Martin Bishop, le jeune contrôleur, osera défier au péril de sa vie. TRAIN D''ENFER et les autres romans du Nord-Ouest sont des tragédies surhumaines [...] l''écriture est forte et singulière, confirmant la place unique qu''occupe Trevor Ferguson dans le paysage littéraire québécois et canadien. - Rémy Charest, Le Devoir.On l’a comparé à Irving, on pense à Dickens... Mais non, Ferguson... c’est du Ferguson ! - Sophie Gironnay, L’Actualité. Traduit de l''anglais par Ivan Steenhout.

Genres: Fiction

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2000

About the author

Trevor Ferguson, aka. John Farrow is a Canadian writer who has written nine novels and four plays and has been named Canada's best novelist in both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star. Under the name John Farrow, he has written three crime novels featuring Émile Cinq-Mars; both are highly acclaimed and popular around the world. He was raised in Montreal and lives in Hudson, Quebec.

Reviews

[Matty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man is a violent animal. How many times do we have to hammer in this concept? It's been explored many times before, and will most certainly continue to be a dominant theme in our literature. However, Trevor Ferguson explores this in his own way. In this novel, it is quite obvious that Man is violent by nature, but rather than describe instances where men do horrible things, Ferguson is more interested by how it arises in the first place. Everything in this harsh environment contributes to the violent desires of Men, from the weather, to the Supervisor, the Others that are banned from the campsite and are forced to scavenge for garbage....Ferguson puts the reader through a tough time. That's the kind of novel I like: where we actually get the feeling of what we are reading.