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Un immense bureau d’acajou sert d’écritoire à une romancière américaine pendant un quart de siècle. Elle l’a reçu en héritage d’un jeune poète chilien, disparu entre les mains de la police secrète de Pinochet. Un jour, une jeune femme prétendant être la fille du poète se présente à sa porte et réclame le bureau, privant la vie de la romancière de son centre de gravité. De l’autre côté de l’océan, un homme qui accompagne sa femme vers la mort découvre, au milieu des papiers de celle-ci, une boucle de cheveux qui lui révèle un terrible secret. À Jérusalem, un antiquaire reconstitue peu à peu la bibliothèque de son père, dont le mobilier avait été dispersé par la nazis, à Budapest, en 1944.
Le bureau, qui se trouve au point de fuite de toutes ces histoires, avec ses multiples tiroirs, exerce son pouvoir sur tous ceux qui entrent en sa possession ou qui le lèguent à quelqu’un d’autre. Au fur et à mesure que les narrateurs de La Grande Maison nous dévoilent leur destin, le bureau finit par représenter tout ce qui leur a été enlevé, tout ce qui les lie à ce qu’ils ont perdu.
La Grande Maison est hanté par la question de ce que nous laissons en héritage à nos enfants. Comment reprennent-ils le témoin de nos rêves et de nos deuils? Quelle réponse pouvons-nous opposer à la disparition, à la destruction, à la transformation de tout?
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Antiquaires, Veufs, Roman psychologique, Bureaux (Mobilier), Perte (Psychologie), Romanciers, M?moire, Romans, nouvelles, Besitzer, Schreibtisch, Loss (Psychology), Fictional Works, Loss, Memory, Fiction, Psychological fiction, secrets, Fiction, general, Israeli fiction, Fiction, psychologicalPeople
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Great house
2010, W. W. Norton & Co., W.W. Norton & Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0393079988 9780393079982
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Publ. en collab. avec: Éditions de l'Olivier.
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For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police, one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.
Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.
Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?
Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.
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