William Trevor explore avec maestria la vie de personnes ordinaires dont le monde est irrévocablement bouleversé. Ses récits plongent dans les complexités des relations humaines et les recoins sombres de la psyché, révélant désirs cachés, déceptions et tournants inattendus du destin. Avec un sens aigu du détail et une perspective mélancolique, Trevor met au jour les changements subtils qui façonnent notre existence. Son œuvre offre de profondes méditations sur la mémoire, l'identité et le fragile équilibre entre le passé et le présent.
Au fil de brefs chapitres alternés, le destin présent de la pâle et touchante Marie-Louise, qui finit ses jours en marge du monde des gens dits " normaux ", tandis que nous reviennent par bouffées les souvenirs, banals et atroces, d'un passé qui refuse de se laisser oublier. " Un admirable roman sur l'amour et la solitude... Le plus beau livre de l'année ? " Michel Crépu, La Croix.
The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short storiesWilliam Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.'A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them' Madison Smartt Bell'Extraordinary... Mr. Trevor's sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people...proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought' The New York Times Book Review
Featuring 48 masterfully crafted tales, this collection showcases the profound insights into the human condition that define the author's work. Celebrated as a leading contemporary short story writer, the stories explore a range of themes and emotions, offering readers a rich tapestry of experiences. Each narrative is a testament to the author's skill in capturing the complexities of life, making this anthology a significant contribution to the genre.
Set in Ireland. At the age of fifty eight, Harry looks back on the time when his boyhood fantasies and reality emerged
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers A brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetime In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for the beautiful young Englishwoman who had taken over the big stone house with her much older German husband. But Frau Messinger's health is failing, and her husband decides to build a cinema in the town to honour her. Harry will work in it; one day he will own it; and he will always remain captive to the memory of the beguiling young woman who arrived suddenly from abroad and lit up his drab provincial life. William Trevor's gift of understanding the poignancy in apparently small lives is beautifully realized in this short novel. 'Perfect in its making and its length' The Times 'Certainly lingers in the mind. I am prepared to bet that I will still remember it in a year's time, which is a test of genuine excellence' Harriet Waugh, Spectator William Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in English, and has also written many award-winning novels, most recently The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer. For many years he has lived in Devon.
A new collection of nineteen stories--originally published in The Collected Stories and After the Rain--explores the complexities of rural and middle-class Irish life, capturing the people and their love, faith, duty, and survival in a culture that blends transformation with tradition. Original.
A collection of short stories by the author of "The Silence in the Garden", "Nights at the Alexandra", "Juliet's Story", "Fools of Fortune", "Two Lives" and "The Old Boys".
After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
"There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world."—Wall Street Journal Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation. Trevor is, in his own words, "a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so." Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor wrote eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
In Ireland what began as both entertainment and communication through the spoken word grew into a literary form unmatched by any other country.The Oxford Book of Irish Short Storiestriumphantly demonstrates that development, from early folk tales of the oral tradition (here translated from the Irish) through Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Joyce Cary to Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O'Flaherty and such rising stars of today as Edna O'Brian and Desmond Hogan. William Trevor, himself a distinguished short story writer, brings a special sensibility and awareness to his role as editor. This wide-ranging collection of forty-six stories will certainly serve to entertain and enrich our understanding of a unique literary genre.
