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Alain Mabanckou s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run down bar in the Congo In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity But Broken Glass fails spectacularly at staying out of trouble as one denizen after another wants to rewrite history in an attempt at making sure his portrayal will properly reflect their exciting and dynamic lives Despondent over this apparent triumph of self delusion over self awareness, Broken Glass drowns his sorrows in red wine and riffs on the great books of Africa and the West Brimming with life, death, and literary allusions, Broken Glass is Mabanckou s finest novel a mocking satire of the dangers of artistic integrity. Download Verre cassé Author Alain Mabanckou – kino-fada.fr When on our way back from Mi dzyzdroje we had to wait in an enormous queue to buy our train tickets, my sister volunteered to take first turn while the rest of us sat on benches in the shadow When my friend went to relieve her, my sister acted mysteriously, she insisted she didn t mind queuing and we could just go relax and leave her to it It was only when we were on the train when she told us that she was eavesdropping on a group of friends who were discussing dramatic events of the night bef When on our way back from Mi dzyzdroje we had to wait in an enormous queue to buy our train tickets, my sister volunteered to take first turn while the rest of us sat on...1 .221 2011 1 .221 201132This was a difficult book to read It is bit stream of consciousness from a man who is supposed to be recording about his life in a journal but is busier drinking It was originally on my Africa 2016 reading list because otherwise, the only book I ve read set in the Congo is the typical Heart of Darkness This book is the opposite of a colonial novel The technology, the society, the politics, are all post colonial, 21st century Africa, and for that reason I was glad to dip into it, even if I wa This was a difficult book to read It is bit stream of consciousness from a man who is supposed to be recording about his life in a journal but is busier drinking It was originally on my Africa 2016 reading list because otherwise, the only book I ve read set in the Congo is the typical Heart of Darkness This book is the opposite of a colonial novel The technology, the society, the politics, are all post colon...This book must be read in French I read a couple of excerpts translated into English, and I honestly felt the rhythm, the flow of the words, the repetition of expressions, and most certainly the humor of the book lacked their charm Yes, it feels like the book of an erudite, but that s precisely what the author is one would not deride Eco for writing the way he does At the same time, I was intrigued with this blurring of th...this is a novella written entirely without periods, or capital letters at the beginnings of sentences, because there aren t any beginnings, an entire 10 page chapter can consist entirely of one run on sentence, which makes it hard to put down because you can t find a stopping place, though fortunately there are occasional line breaks, like maybe once every few pagesanyway this guy, Broken Glass, spends all his time at the bar, having drunk himself out of a job and a wife, and the bar owner convi this is a novella written entirely without periods, or capital letters at the beginnings of sentences, because there aren t any beginnings, an entire 10 page chapter can consist entirely of one run on sentence, which makes it hard to put down because you can t find a stopping place, though fortunately there are occasional line breaks, like maybe once every few pagesanyway this guy, Broken Glass, spends all his time at the bar, having drunk himself out of a job and a wife, and the bar owner convinces him to write, so he writes about the bar and the hard luck stories of the other patrons and eventually his own, and he and the other guys seem like pretty unreliable narrators but it is engaging on the whole, with a distinctive voice and exaggerated and unlikely stories, and the ...Alain Mabanckou already knows most of what s wrong with his book After a hundred and twenty odd pages of his desultory jabbering he lays out, nice and clean I d write down words as they came to me, I d begin awkwardly and I d finish as awkwardly as I d begun, and to hell with pure reason, and method, and phonetics, and prose, and in this shit poor language of mine things would seem clear in my head but come out wrong, and the words to say it wouldn t come easy, so it would be a choice between Alain Mabanckou already knows most of what s wrong with his book After a hundred and twenty odd pages of his desultory jabbering he lays out, nice and clean I d write down words as they came to me, I d begin awkwardly and I d finish as awkwardly as I d begun, and to hell with pure reason, and method, and phonetics, and prose, and in this shit poor language of mine things would seem clear in my head but come out wrong, and the words to say it wouldn t come easy, so it would be a choice between writing or life, that s right , and what I really want people to say when they read me is what s this jumble, this mess, this muddle, this mish mash of barbarities, this empire of signs, this chit chat, this descent to the dregs of belles lettres, what s with this barnyard prattle, is this stuff for real, and where does it start, and where the hell does it e... .Maybe something was lost in the translation but a could have been great book became an OK one Broken Glass spends his time drinking red wine in a bar, everyday for years The owner of the bar asks him to write down his observati...

Verre cassé
  • French
  • 13 May 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 248 pages
  • 2020849534
  • Alain Mabanckou
  • Verre cassé