In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times 'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Gilead Séries
Cette série de romans explore les profondeurs de l'esprit humain, examinant la tapisserie complexe de la foi, de la famille et du pardon à travers les générations. Situées dans les paysages évocateurs du Midwest américain, ces histoires offrent un regard introspectif sur la vie, la mortalité et la recherche durable de sens. Les lecteurs apprécieront la prose lyrique et les réflexions philosophiques qui capturent à la fois la vulnérabilité et la résilience de la condition humaine. Chaque épisode offre une lentille unique sur des thèmes universels, ce qui en fait une expérience de lecture captivante et profondément résonnante.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes Home, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.
Lila
- 357pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Ainsi que les lecteurs de Gilead et de Chez nous s'en souviendront sans doute, Lila est la seconde épouse du révérend John Ames qui exerce son sacerdoce à Gilead, une petite ville de l'Iowa. C'est à ce personnage féminin, très discret dans les deux romans précédents, que Marilynne Robinson, remontant le temps de sa propre fiction, consacre ce troisième ouvrage, bouclant ainsi, à rebours, le cycle de ce qui apparaît désormais comme une trilogie romanesque. À la manière de certains écrivains dont toute l'?uvre semble hantée par un territoire unique, et comme si écrire s'apparentait pour elle à un geste d'ordre quasi généalogique, la romancière ne quitte donc pas les parages de Gilead, centre du monde en forme de champ magnétique où tout se joue pour les personnages, sur la terre comme au ciel ...
Jack
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit, and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.