Multiple Choice
Auteur
- Alejandro Zambra (Écrivain)
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Classement en biblio - 2 lecteurs
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Scars
1. You think about how the shortest distance between two points is the length of a scar.
2. You think: the introduction is the father, the climax is the son, and the resolution is the holy spirit.
3. You read books that are much stranger than the books you would write if you wrote.
4. You think, as if it were a discovery, that the last point in the line of time is the present.
5. You try to go from the general to the specific, even if the general is General Pinochet.
6. You try to go from the abstract to the concrete.
7. The abstract is the pain of others.
8. The concrete is the pain of others colliding with your body until you are completely invaded.
9. The concrete is something that can only grow.
10. Something like a tumor, or the opposite of a tumor: a child.
11. In your case, it's a tumor.
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Date de sortie
Multiple Choice
- France : 2017-08-03 - Poche (Français)
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Résumé
“The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño,” (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional fiction. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with his most audaciously brilliant book yet.
Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exercises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd. It offers a new kind of reading experience, one in which the reader participates directly in the creation of meaning, and the nature of storytelling itself is called into question. At once funny, poignant, and political, Multiple Choice is about love and family, authoritarianism and its legacies, and the conviction that, rather than learning to think for ourselves, we are trained to obey and repeat. Serious in its literary ambition and playful in its execution, it confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most important writers working in any language.
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