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The World, More Or Less
The World More or Less completes Jean Rouaud's celebrated autobiographical trilogy about his family and his journey toward becoming a writer - a trilogy that began with Fields of Glory (winner of the Goncourt Prize), followed by Of Illustrious Men. The novel tells the story of a young man caught between adolescent self-pity and adult self-acceptance. For him the world is both hostile and enticing; he is at a crossroads. Awkward, dreamy, lonely, longing, still grieving for the deaths of his father, grandfather, and aunt, he is also very nearsighted. This gives him a sort of double vision: putting on his glasses brings the world into focus, taking them off blurs it. Our view of him, too, is double, one of proximity and distance, for it is formed by the young man's searing self-scrutiny and the writer-to-be's maturer judgment. Sharing this more-or-less world are Theo and Gyf, lover and friend, one whose life is a mystery, the other who wants to capture life's mystery on film.
Fields of Glory
Winner of the Prix Goncourt A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The setting may be the rainy lower Loire Valley of the 1950s, but it is the WW I battlefields of Artois, Meuse, Lorraine, and Yser that form the emotional backdrop to this poignant testament to the vitality of life that death cannot dim. Fields of Glory begins as a collection of utterly charming reminiscences of the eccentricities of family elders told by an unnamed and indeterminately aged narrator. In pure and graceful prose, Rouaud describes crotchety grandfather Burgaud with his equally difficult car, a cramped and leaky CV2, and maiden great-aunt Marie with her card file of saints—"A prefatory catalogue of terrifying symptoms refers the reader to the saint specializing in the corresponding disorder. The work of a lifetime." It is in the midst of this comedy of daily life that the melancholy subtext of three generations slowly emerges: the stories of the two young men who were casualties of the Fields of Glory and the family that remains to remember them.
Of Illustrious Men
A grieving son explores his father's identity as a quiet family man, and World War II hero, and forms an understanding about human greatness in both war and peace time.
Lire Jean Rouaud
Pompiste, vendeur d'encyclopédies médicales, puis journaliste, libraire et vendeur de journaux, Jean Rouaud rencontre Jérôme Lindon en 1988. deux ans plus tard, il fait paraître son premier roman, Les Champs d'honneur, un coup de maître puisqu'il obtient le prix Goncourt. Marqué par la mort de son père au lendemain de Noël alors qu'il n'avait que onze ans, puis par celle de sa mère, Jean Rouaud ressuscite au fil de ses œuvres sa famille disparue. Ce livre présente la vie et l’environnement de Jean Rouault. Les thèmes et les structures de ses textes sont analysés.
Profil - Rouaud (Jean) : Les Champs d'Honneur, Pour vos cadeaux
L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser les deux récits autobiographiques de Jean Rouaud. • Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles. • Ce Profil d’une œuvre comprend également quatre lectures analytiques : – trois extraits de la partie I des Champs d’honneur ; – une lecture comparée d’un extrait de la partie II des Champs d’honneur, et de la partie II de Pour vos cadeaux
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Prix Goncourt surprise en 1990, Jean Rouaud apparaît comme l'un des exemples du renouveau et comme l'un des représentants de la qualité française à l'étranger, grâce à sa capacité à faire surgir la mémoire collective au coeur même d'une chronique familiale, en remontant à la "scène primitive" du siècle : la Grande Guerre.
Thresholds of Meaning
Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; and the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a shared repertoire of motifs and themes, engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate the various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of concepts and models derived from ritual theory and from visual analysis, Thresholds of Meaning situates itself at the intersection of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and research into word and image.
Jean Rouaud et le "trésor des humbles"
A l'oeuvre de Jean Rouaud semble s'appliquer l'expression qui sert de titre à l'un des ouvrages de Maeterlinck : "trésor des humbles". Dans Pour vos cadeaux, le narrateur nous dit de sa mère qu'elle a pris "une fois pour toutes le parti des humbles", des plus modestes. Elle participe, à sa façon, à cette "révolution par les humbles" dont parle Gilbert Durand. Et Jean Rouaud déclare : "J'ai trouvé insupportable qu'on parle avec mépris de petites ou de moyennes gens. Il y a une ligne de l'intolérable à ne pas dépasser qui s'appelle la dignité humaine" (Le Monde, 1er octobre 1990).
