La Trilogie 1984 d'Eric Plamondon, traduite par Dimitri Nasrallah, disponible en trois volumes chez Véhicule Press : Hungary-Hollywood Express, Mayonnaise, Apple S. http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=1606202001
Catégorie : Traduction
« Pomme S » en anglais
On Sale May 25 The third and final installment in Éric Plamondon's 1984 trilogy will be available soon. Find out why L'Inconvénient names this series as one of its 20 best Québécois novels of the 21st century! Pre-order Apple S here Pomme S traduit par Dimitri Nasrallah.
A chronicle of the American Dream
"Freight Train" by J. C. Sutcliffe in The Times Literary Supplement, London, March 1st, 2017 Hungary–Hollywood Express opens with a glorious seven-page riff cataloguing a life, a combination of Radiohead’s “Fitter, Happier” and the “Choose life” monologue from Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. Teenage angst, we learn, never disappears but simply gets buried under the accreted layers … Lire la suite A chronicle of the American Dream
Novels are an omnivoracious form
"A short book about what makes a life, and the American 20th century." Jade COLBERT about Hungary-Hollywood Express, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Dec. 30, 2016. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-debut-fiction-from-eric-plamondon-jared-young-and-viet-dinh/article33455108/
Fortier and Plamondon well-served by new translations
«What keeps it all grounded is the man in the middle of it all: Somehow, despite being little more than a cipher in Plamondon’s design, Weissmuller emerges vividly on the page, his plight a thing of true pathos, his life’s arc no less painfully human for serving as an archetypal 20th century odyssey.» — Ian … Lire la suite Fortier and Plamondon well-served by new translations
Dimitri Nasrallah on Hungary-Hollywood Express
http://quebecreads.com/dimitri/ "I think [Hungary-Hollywood Express] epitomises a lot of what’s right with Quebec literature at the minute." — Peter McCambridge Québec Reads, November 2016