L'art francais de la guerre
A sweeping novel that revisits colonial wars, postwar memory, and the inheritance of violence in modern France, mixing historical inquiry with philosophical reflection.
Work Information
War history becomes a question of national memory.
A sweeping novel that revisits colonial wars, postwar memory, and the inheritance of violence in modern France, mixing historical inquiry with philosophical reflection.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Gallimard
- Published
- 2011-08-18
- Pages
- 633 pages
- Language
- フランス語
- Size
- 15.8 x 3.6 x 22.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9782070134588
- ISBN-10
- 207013458X
- Price
- 1880 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2011 The story begins during the first Gulf War: the narrator, in the middle of a personal crisis, makes the acquaintance of an old serviceman turned painter, Victor Salagnon. Across the memories of Salagnon march fifty years of French history seen again across military fact: World War II, Indochina, Algeria, and more. Beyond The story of a friendship between two men is a questioning of contemporary France and ideology.
Reviews
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輝かやしいほん
48歳の理科教師が書いたとは驚きですね。ゴンクール賞作品これで七冊目ですが、皆ハイレベルですね。
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C'est bien fait, bien dans le goût français
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Fantástico. No me hubiera levantado del sofá. Me encantará seguir leyendo a Jenni y volver a opinar apasionadamente sobre lo que escribe.
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Das Buch ist überwältigend. Das heißt, man kann es nicht weglegen, man wird hineingezogen in die zugrundeliegende Tragik des Einzelnen und der Gesellschaft - im Kriegsgeschehen, im Nachkriegsgeschehen und im Folgekrieg - ob man will oder nicht, auch als absoluter Pazifist muss man es zu Ende lesen, denn man erkennt die große Ehrlichkeit und unausweichliche Wahrheit in allem was der Autor sagt. Und man versteht von Anfang an, dass dieses Buch alles andere als destruktiv ist. Und man versteht den Prix Goncourt für dieses "Erstlingswerk"!
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What beautiful book. I haven't read anything in French for a long time so I'm using my dictionary fairly frequently, but it is well worth the effort.
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This could turn out to be a good novel. A hundred pages into it, the issue is still in doubt. One thing is clear: the author is proud of his prowess in the French language, likes to show it off, and details his thoughts on the settings and his characters' thought processes to the nth degree, so it is a voluminous tome. Because I am reading French novels to teach myself idiomatic and colloquial French, I will keep plodding on, because this book, more than Alfred Daudet or the other more modern novels I have read in French, is teaching me what I want to learn -- and that's not L'Art Francais de la guerre!
Related Literary Awards
- Prix Goncourt Edition 109 (2011) ・Winner