Tim O\'Brian (Ordre des livres)

Tim O\'Brian Ordre des livres

Tim O'Brien est réputé pour son exploration incisive des expériences traumatisantes de la guerre et de la perte de l'innocence. Sa prose se penche fréquemment sur les complexités de la mémoire et de l'ambiguïté morale, examinant comment les individus naviguent dans le spectre des horreurs passées. La maîtrise d'O'Brien réside dans sa capacité à entrelacer la réalité brute avec la beauté lyrique, offrant aux lecteurs une méditation profondément émouvante sur la résilience humaine et les conséquences du conflit.

Going After Cacciato

395pages
14 heures de lecture

3,9(13002)Évaluer

"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales Going After Cacciato is a fully dramatized account of men both in action and escaping from it....Clearly we are dealing here with what the new South American novelists would call 'magical realism'. To combine the two and make the result esthetically convincing is a major achievement." -- The New York Times Book Review "Magical and inspiring...truly incomparable! Every war has its chroniclers of fear and flight, its Stephen Cranes and Joseph Hellers. Time O'Brien joins their number." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Cacciato is one dumb soldier. He is walking away from war. Across mountains and deserts and swamps, hiking the 8600 miles from Vietnam to the lights of Gay Paree. To civilization. To peace. But that's insane. Isn't it? So a squad of fellow soldiers goes after crazy Cacciato. Their mission: bring him back to reality. Or else