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Forest Dark / Nicole Krauss

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Krauss, Nicole ((1974-....)). Auteur

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 2017

Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, and a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert. To Epstein's mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive and avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading. This transformation began in the wake of Epstein's parents' deaths, and continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage, his retirement from a New York legal firm, and the rapid shedding of possessions he'd spent a lifetime accumulating. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton. Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks into the same hotel, hoping that the view of the pool she used to swim in on childhood holidays will unlock her writer's block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey and change her in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humour, this is a profound, mesmerising, achingly beautiful novel of metamorphosis and self-realisation - of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
Jules Epstein s’est volatilisé sans laisser aucune trace, si ce n’est un appartement saccagé et squatté par les cafards, ainsi qu’une malette abandonnée dans le désert. Pour sa famille, il s’agit là de la suite logique d’un processus graduel qui a commencé à la mort de ses parents, puis s’est poursuivi avec son divorce après plus de 35 ans de mariage, son licenciement et la rapide dilapidation de biens qu’il avait mis toute une vie à accumuler. En vérité, Epstein est parti bille en tête au Hilton de Tel-Aviv avec un plan bien nébuleux. Drôle et plein de vie, ce récit est une hypnotisante histoire de métamorphose personnelle.

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