Eva Luna: 6789 (Livre De Poche)

Allende, Isabel

ISBN 10: 2253053546 ISBN 13: 9782253053545

Verlag: LGF/Le Livre de Poche, 1990

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416pages. poche. broché. Isabel Allende renoue avec sa jubilation de raconteuse qu'on avait vue à l'oeuvre dans son premier roman, La Maison aux esprits. (. ) Eva, c'est l'énergie de vivre faite femme. Ccmédie, tragédie, l'univers d'Eva est un théâtre cocasse et cruel peuplé de paumés, de vieux fous, de mères maquerelles, de guérilleros, de généraux sentimentaux (. ). Superbe roman provocant et baroque. Isabel Allende est une de ces rares bienfaitrices qui joignent un humour d'enfer à un rythme sans faiblesse et dont les personnages sont inoubliables. Qu'on ne s'y trompe pas: ce roman musclé, allègre, n'est pas un simple divertissement. Il est de la tradition picaresque, style Gil Blas. Le picaro apporte désinvolture et gaieté là où les autres plient et se lamentent. Il met sa fierté à se moquer de l'oppression et c'est ce que fait Eva Luna, ensorcelante héroïne.

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"A remarkable novel, one in which a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human...Reading this novel is like asking your favorite storyteller to tell you a story and getting a hundred stories!"--Alan Ryan "The Washington Post "

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Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener--born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.

As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation--the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated--in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.

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• Verlag: LGF/Le Livre de Poche
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 2253053546
• ISBN 13: 9782253053545
• Einband: Libro
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384