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CosmoZ
Réclamés à parts égales par la fiction et le réel, échappés de l'univers mythique du Magicien d'Oz , quelques orphelins du siècle traversent, des tranchées de 14-18 au champignon atomique d'Hiroshima, un demi-siècle de barbarie. Mise à mal par les diverses tornades de l'Histoire, la petite tribu des "Oziens" se confronte aux politiques monstrueuses qui transformèrent l'Europe en une galaxie de camps de concentration et le reste du monde en parcs d'attraction ou en camps retranchés.
CosmoZ, une anti-féérie pour revisiter, à l'aune d'un merveilleux qui se rêve résistance, la mortelle illusion des utopies qui, sous mille visages, nous gouvernent.
CosmoZ, une anti-féérie pour revisiter, à l'aune d'un merveilleux qui se rêve résistance, la mortelle illusion des utopies qui, sous mille visages, nous gouvernent.
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484 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2010
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June 25, 2012
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For English readers: I don't know if this novel is going to be translated and when, but this new take on the famous characters from the Magician of Oz, full of a gritty realism that contrasts sharply with the elements of wonder, is a masterpiece. Never before, I believe, have I seen such an extravaganza set in the first half of the darkest 20th century.
From the trenches of World War One to the Nazi death camps, with the Dust Bowl and the heydays of Hollywood with Tod Browning and Disney as well as the actual production of the Oz movie, Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion as well as two Munchkin are summoned into our world (by its darkest power of attraction, by its emptiness that echoes with their own) into which they are incarnated and wherein they look for answers and for the meaning of their carnal existence, searching after Oz, a true Oz this time. A desperate, poignant, dark quest, this novel is a brilliant mise en abîme written in a stylish language that constantly explores the melancholic link between fiction and reality and how they are the two poles of the same eternal question that haunts us all.
For English readers: I don't know if this novel is going to be translated and when, but this new take on the famous characters from the Magician of Oz, full of a gritty realism that contrasts sharply with the elements of wonder, is a masterpiece. Never before, I believe, have I seen such an extravaganza set in the first half of the darkest 20th century.
From the trenches of World War One to the Nazi death camps, with the Dust Bowl and the heydays of Hollywood with Tod Browning and Disney as well as the actual production of the Oz movie, Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion as well as two Munchkin are summoned into our world (by its darkest power of attraction, by its emptiness that echoes with their own) into which they are incarnated and wherein they look for answers and for the meaning of their carnal existence, searching after Oz, a true Oz this time. A desperate, poignant, dark quest, this novel is a brilliant mise en abîme written in a stylish language that constantly explores the melancholic link between fiction and reality and how they are the two poles of the same eternal question that haunts us all.
March 31, 2018
Come per una vendetta della letteratura su follie e crudeltà della storia così Claro smonta l'opera di Frank Baum e trasforma i suoi personaggi in viaggiatori attraverso due guerre mondiali, l'Europa e gli Stati Uniti.
Lungo e non sempre immediato gratifica il lettore di capitoli bellissimi.
Per complessità e creatività questo CosmoZ, stranissimo romanzo mondo, non può non farmi considerare Claro uno dei grandissimi della letteratura europea contemporanea proprio accanto a Volodine e Cartarescu.
Lungo e non sempre immediato gratifica il lettore di capitoli bellissimi.
Per complessità e creatività questo CosmoZ, stranissimo romanzo mondo, non può non farmi considerare Claro uno dei grandissimi della letteratura europea contemporanea proprio accanto a Volodine e Cartarescu.
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October 28, 2012Commencé, lu quelques chapitres, pas aimé du tout le style, sauté quelques pages, pas mieux, abandonné.
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October 19, 2016"Oui, il y avait un monde, un autre monde, où venaient se sédimenter tous les possibles, un monde qui se contentait d’une existence en mode mineur, dans lequel les gestes ne laissaient pas de trace appuyée, au sein duquel les pensées n’engendraient pas nécessairement des actes. Elle y avait vécu…"
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