I would like to talk to you about 5 books, very diverse, all read at different times in my life but with the commonality of having had a profound impact on me. Ultra-violence - mourning - traumatizing futuristic concepts - dystopian horror - ecology, each of these works will push you far, very far, beyond your limits!
More than any other form of artistic expression, literature has always pushed the boundaries of decency.
If we have fun comparing so-called "disturbing" works, we realize that regardless of the era, writers have always been one step ahead.
Due to its literary and therefore intellectual essence, it has always been more acceptable to read atrocious or difficult-to-hear things in a book, to describe scenes that cinema, for example, could not afford because of its figurative nature and therefore more frontal, delivered as it is to the public. Reading a book requires abstraction.
It is thus difficult to be a good reader if one has little imagination. It takes work, practice. It develops like a muscle, over the pages, repetitions.
But, the flip side, having too much imagination also exacerbates everything that can be disturbing about a book. The mind races, projecting us into the heart of unsettling visions, ideas that surpass us.
Au programme :
« Méridien de sang » (Blood Meridian) par Cormac McCarthy, paru en 1985
« L’année de la pensée magique » (The Year of Magical Thinking) par Joan Didion, paru en 2005
« Axiomatique » (Axiomatic) par Greg Egan, paru en 1995
« Marche ou crève » (The Long Walk) par Richard Bachman (Stephen King), paru en 1979
« Et si on arrêtait de faire semblant ? » (What If We Stopped Pretending?) par Jonathan Franzen, paru en 2019
24 июл 2024
