Beijing coma - Couverture souple

Jian, Ma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2081212935 ISBN 13 : 9782081212930

Editeur : FLAMMARION, 2008

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Once in a while – perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation – a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction"
— Tash Aw, Daily Telegraph

"Epic in scope but intimate in feeling ... magnificent"
— Tom Deveson, The Times

"Simultaneously a large-scale portrait of citizens writing in the grip of the party and the state and a strikingly intimate study of the fragility of the body and the persistence of self and memory"
— Chandrahas Choudhury, Observer

“[Beijing Coma] merits the term ‘masterpiece’. . . . [T]he narrative strategy succeeds at creating suspense page after page and lends a poignant, inexorable flavour to the events after the massacre.”
— The Vancouver Sun

“A work of fiction so realistic that it can be read as a tragic memoir of a time of hope, turmoil and atrocity. . . . An immaculate lesson in history, it is a vivid reminder that all things change and all is swept away.”
— The Owen Sound Sun Times

“Already notorious for writing novels banned in his homeland due to their criticism of China's policies on human rights and Tibet, the now London-based Ma Jian here launches his most sustained and intricate indictment of his former country. . . . As novelist, he painstakingly recreates the cycle of idealism, arrogance, confusion and despair that characterized the experience of demonstrators on the ground in [Tiananmen] square.”
— Toronto Star

“[Beijing Coma] will make waves across the world. . . . Ma combines a gift for densely detailed, panoramic fiction with a resonant prophetic voice. . . . Beijing Coma may have huge documentary value, but it grips and moves as epic fiction above all . . . Beijing Coma has the visceral physicality that stamps all of Ma Jian's work. He is a poet of the body in all its ecstasies, embarrassments and agonies.”
— The Independant

“A huge achievement . . . a landmark account through fiction of a country whose rise has amazed the world, but which remains cloaked in shadows. . . . finely written and translated.”
— The Times

“This is an epic yet intimate work that deserves to be recognised and to endure as the great Tiananmen novel.”
— Financial Times

“This timely yet dazzling piece of fiction will be seen simply for what it is: a modern literary masterpiece.”
— Sunday Express

“This vivid, pungent, often blackly funny book is a mighty gesture of remembrance against the encroaching forces of silence.”
— Guardian

“Astonishingly brave... the most important Chinese book since Wild Swans.”
— London Lite

“[A] bleak, wrenching generational saga . . . Ma Jian achieves startling effects through Dai Wei’s dispassionate narration, making one man’s felled body a symbol of lost possibility.”
— Publishers Weekly

“One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature.”
— Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“Ma Jian is arguably his country’s essential writer.”
— The Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

4 juin 1989. Des milliers d'étudiants occupent depuis un mois la Place Tiananmen, et parmi eux, Dai Wei. Quand un soldat lui tire une balle dans la tête, le plongeant dans un coma profond, son corps devient sa prison, mais son âme se souvient : la honte quand son père dissident revient des camps, ses premières amours contrariées, la conscience politique qui s'éveille... Lorsque Dai Wei sortira du coma une décennie plus tard, se reconnaîtra-t-il seulement dans cette Chine pétrie de contradictions ? Histoire, mémoire, liberté, Beijing Coma explore les pierres angulaires de la société - les droits fondamentaux sans lesquels l'être humain ne pourrait survivre. Le chef-d'oeuvre de Ma Jian, qu'il a mis dix ans à écrire.

«Une fois par génération, un roman paraît qui remet profondément en question le regard que nous portons sur le monde et sur nous-mêmes. Beijing Coma est l'examen poétique non seulement d'un pays à un moment donné de son histoire mais du droit universel de se souvenir et d'espérer. C'est, à tous les points de vue, une oeuvre de fiction qui fera date.»
Daily Telegraph

Ma Jian a quitté Beijing pour Hong Kong en 1987, peu avant que ses livres soient interdits en Chine, et vit aujourd'hui à Londres. Il a publié quatre livres en France, dont Nouilles chinoises (Flammarion, 2006) et Chemins de poussière rouge (Editions de l'aube, 2005), qui fustige l'autorité abusive et l'hypocrisie au pouvoir en Chine, lui valant ainsi l'admiration du prix Nobel Gao Xingjian qui voit en lui «une des voix les plus importantes et les plus courageuses de la littérature chinoise contemporaine».

Traduit par Constance de Saint-Mont

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: FLAMMARION
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 2081212935
• ISBN 13: 9782081212930
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640