C'est un tweet de Guy A Lepage qui aime la trilogie 1984 d'Eric Plamondon. C'est un coup de coeur. C'était le 28 décembre 2017.
Guy A Lepage aime la trilogie !
Étiquette : Hungary-Hollywood Express
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
A neon middle finger erected to literary convention
http://thewalrus.ca/the-wikipedia-novel/ André Forget, "The Wikipedia Novel", in The Walrus, Sept. 7, 2016
Éric Plamondon 