Titre : | Quincunx |
Titre original: | Das Geheimnis der fünf Rosen |
Auteurs : | Charles Palliser, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | München [Deutschland] : Knaur Taschenbuch, 1993 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-3-426-63007-5 |
Format : | 1004 pages / Illustré / 20x13 cm |
Langues: | Allemand |
Langues originales: | Anglais |
Résumé : |
The Quincunx (The Inheritance of John Huffam) is the epic first novel of Charles Palliser. It takes the form of a Dickensian mystery set in early 19th century England, but Palliser has added the modern attributes of an ambiguous plot and unreliable narrators. Many of the puzzles that are apparently solved in the story have an alternative solution in the subtext.
The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century English society but re-creates with precision the tempestuous weather and gnarly landscape that has been a motif of the English novel since Wuthering Heights. The suspension of disbelief happens easily, as the reader is led through twisted family trees and plot lines. The quincunx of the title is a heraldic figure of five parts that appears at crucial points within the text (the number five recurs throughout the novel, which itself is divided into five parts, one for each of the family galaxies whose orbits the narrator is pulled into). Quintuple the length of the ordinary novel, this extraordinary tour de force also has five times the ordinary allotment of adventure, action and aplomb |
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Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité | L'etagère |
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P ROM 1983 | PAL | Livre | A Rousen | Roman | Disponible | R 2.7 F |