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Titre: L'arbre du pays Toraja
Auteur: Philippe Claudel
Narrateur: Denis Wetterwald
Format: Unabridged
Durée: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Langue: Français
Date de publication: 07-12-16
Éditeur: CdLEDITIONS
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Résumé de l'éditeur:
"Qu'est-ce que c'est les vivants ? À première vue, tout n'est qu'évidence. Être avec les vivants. Être dans la vie. Mais qu'est-ce que cela signifie, profondément, être vivant ? Quand je respire et marche, quand je mange, quand je rêve, suis-je pleinement vivant ? Quand je sens la chaleur douce d'Elena, suis-je davantage vivant ? Quel est le plus haut degré du vivant ?"
Un cinéaste au mitan de sa vie perd son meilleur ami et réfléchit sur la part que la mort occupe dans notre existence. Entre deux femmes magnifiques, entre le présent et le passé, dans la mémoire des visages aimés et la lumière des rencontres inattendues, L'arbre du pays Toraja célèbre les promesses de la vie.
©2016 Stock (P)2016 CdL Éditions
Avis des membres:
Brilliant probe into questions of life and death
[This 2016 novel is not available in English yet] and may be Claudelâs most personal investigation into the meaning of body and soul, the true nature of life and death, and what prompts rapid, irreversible decay due to sickness. Many of his questions relate to the death of his alter-egoâs best and only friend Eugène, of cancer, the narrator being a minor film director, Eugène his long-time producer.
A visit to the Toraja of Sulawesi in Indonesia marks the start of the book. Their culture revolves around death; burial preparations take months, sometime years, with the deceased declared âsickâ pending his final send-off. Still-born babies and dead infants are nested into the armpits of trees, feeding them, moving sky-ward over decades towards their own spiritual afterlife.
The rest of the world is less spiritually-connected with aging and death, hiding its onset whenever it can through diet, training, make-up, cosmetic surgery, the struggle ending ultimately in homes for marginally-healthy, mindless husks in wheelchairs or wards for younger, aggressively-assaulted people whose systems collapsed rapidly. Claudel finds the common approach of cancer specialists too mechanical and wonders about spiritual 'dips' causing brief cracks in one's natural resilience/armour, immediately seized upon... Is this a depressing novel? I think not, but I would be a spoiler if I explained why.
Otherwise, thus far I have never taken notes of Claudelâs novels. Why? (1) I rather read on to see what is on the next page. (2) Notes would be copious and unwieldy for a brief review. (3) Any review must leave readers with a worldview to further discover and enjoy (or not). Finally, this wonderful, imaginative and beautifully-written novel includes cameo appearances by Michel Piccoli (actor), Milan Kundera (writer) and Beth Gibbons (singer of Portishead).
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Titre: L'arbre du pays Toraja
Auteur: Philippe Claudel
Narrateur: Denis Wetterwald
Format: Unabridged
Durée: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Langue: Français
Date de publication: 07-12-16
Éditeur: CdLEDITIONS
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Résumé de l'éditeur:
"Qu'est-ce que c'est les vivants ? À première vue, tout n'est qu'évidence. Être avec les vivants. Être dans la vie. Mais qu'est-ce que cela signifie, profondément, être vivant ? Quand je respire et marche, quand je mange, quand je rêve, suis-je pleinement vivant ? Quand je sens la chaleur douce d'Elena, suis-je davantage vivant ? Quel est le plus haut degré du vivant ?"
Un cinéaste au mitan de sa vie perd son meilleur ami et réfléchit sur la part que la mort occupe dans notre existence. Entre deux femmes magnifiques, entre le présent et le passé, dans la mémoire des visages aimés et la lumière des rencontres inattendues, L'arbre du pays Toraja célèbre les promesses de la vie.
©2016 Stock (P)2016 CdL Éditions
Avis des membres:
Brilliant probe into questions of life and death
[This 2016 novel is not available in English yet] and may be Claudelâs most personal investigation into the meaning of body and soul, the true nature of life and death, and what prompts rapid, irreversible decay due to sickness. Many of his questions relate to the death of his alter-egoâs best and only friend Eugène, of cancer, the narrator being a minor film director, Eugène his long-time producer.
A visit to the Toraja of Sulawesi in Indonesia marks the start of the book. Their culture revolves around death; burial preparations take months, sometime years, with the deceased declared âsickâ pending his final send-off. Still-born babies and dead infants are nested into the armpits of trees, feeding them, moving sky-ward over decades towards their own spiritual afterlife.
The rest of the world is less spiritually-connected with aging and death, hiding its onset whenever it can through diet, training, make-up, cosmetic surgery, the struggle ending ultimately in homes for marginally-healthy, mindless husks in wheelchairs or wards for younger, aggressively-assaulted people whose systems collapsed rapidly. Claudel finds the common approach of cancer specialists too mechanical and wonders about spiritual 'dips' causing brief cracks in one's natural resilience/armour, immediately seized upon... Is this a depressing novel? I think not, but I would be a spoiler if I explained why.
Otherwise, thus far I have never taken notes of Claudelâs novels. Why? (1) I rather read on to see what is on the next page. (2) Notes would be copious and unwieldy for a brief review. (3) Any review must leave readers with a worldview to further discover and enjoy (or not). Finally, this wonderful, imaginative and beautifully-written novel includes cameo appearances by Michel Piccoli (actor), Milan Kundera (writer) and Beth Gibbons (singer of Portishead).