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A carregar... Atonement (1997)por Gaétan Soucy
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Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. During that one blustery winter solstice day, between the railway station and the church where a funeral mass is underway, he meets old villagers, forgotten neighbours, and characters who are either imagined or real. But there's only one person he seeks: the von Croft twin he taught to read music and to whom he wants to atone. Soucy creates a world where nothing is left to chance and the line between dream and reality is always shifting. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — A carregar...GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)848.992354Literature French Miscellaneous French writings 1900- French-language literature outside of France CanadaClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.92)
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and this with a unremarkable one, yet it's still more unsettling,
The story is of the return of Louis Bapaumbe, a second-string church organist, to the village where he'd taught music twenty years earlier. It's a journey he feels compelled to make: He must at any cost speak with a former pupil. Somehow Soucy tells the story with all its twists and turns in 100 or so pages and manages to give depth to the characters, create several mysteries, include many memorable and often strange details (the extracted molar that Bapaumbe finds soothing, a soldier's eagerness to mend a teddy bear savaged by an owl, the steam rising from a thawing corpse), and engage both the reader's intellect and his emotions. It's a very atmospheric book as well, though oddly one doesn't get a feeling for the forests and snow and short dark days Soucy describes, perhaps because the effort of describing them shows: metaphorical phrases don't sit well in book with this sort of tone.
Some of what happens is not wholly explained and some not at all. If you like me are keen on stories that leave unanswered questions and that have you going back looking for clues after finishing them you might very well like this. I've little doubt that this is a book that will stay in the back of my mind for quite a good while.