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Quel Che Il Giorno Deve Alla Notte (2008)

by Yasmina Khadra(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8804591552 (ISBN13: 9788804591559)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

A. Mondadori

review 1: Through the window, which is open on to the deep blue sky where the moon glitters like a medal, I prepare myself to watch, in slow motion, the parade of my misdeeds, my joys, the familiar faces. I hear them arrive, a thunderous roar like a rockslide. How should I sort them? How should I behave? I am going round in circles on the edge of an abyss, an acrobat on a razor’s edge, a mesmerised volcanologist on the edge of a bubbling crater; I am at the gates of memory, the endless reels of film we all file away, the great dark drawers stocked with the ordinary heroes we once were, the Camusian myths we never could embody, the actors and the roles we played, genius and grotesque, beautiful and monstrous, bowed beneath the weight of our small acts of cowardice, our feats of arm... mores, our lies, our confessions, our oaths and recantations, our gallantry and desertion, our certainties and doubts; in short, our indomitable illusions.What to keep of all these reels of film, what to throw away? If we could take only one memory on our journey, what would we choose? At the expense of what or whom? And most importantly, how to choose among all these shadows, all these spectres, all these titans? Who are we, when all is said and done? Are we the people we once were or the people we wish we had been? Are we the pain we caused others or the pain we suffered at the hands of others? The encounters we missed or those fortuitous meetings that changed the course of our destiny? Our time behind the scenes that saved us from our vanity or the moment in the limelight that warmed us? We are all of these things, we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us . . . we are a host of characters in one, so convincing in every role we played that it is impossible for us to tell who we really were, who we have become, who we will be.I listen to the voices of the past; I am no longer alone. Whispers whirl in these splinters of memory like fragments of a vast sound: cryptic phrases, strangled cries, laughter and sobbing impossible to tell apart... [...] I allow these memories to take possession of my breathing, my insomnia, my whole being. [...] Eyelids are like secret doors; closed they tell us stories, open they look out on to ourselves. We are prisoners of our memories. Our eyes no longer belong to us...
review 2: "L'Algérie, un pays qu'il restait à redéfinir et où tous les paradoxes du monde semblaient avoir choisi de vivre en rentiers""C'est en amour que toute laideur se découvre une beauté""la Nostalgérie""La postérité n'a jamais rendu l'étreinte des tombes moins dure. Elle a juste le mérite de modérer notre peur de la mort puisqu'il n'y a pas de thérapie mieux appropriée à notre inexorable finitude que l'illusion d'une belle éternité. .. Cependant, il en existe une qui me tient à cœur : la mémoire d'une nation éclairée. c'est la seule postérité qui me fasse rêver."Ce roman est vraiment magnifique, une histoire tragique qui dit presque tout sur la guerre d'Algérie, les différences et le conflit entre la communauté européenne et les indigènes, le chaos, l'insécurité, les histoires et la misère vécues par ces gens qui partageaient une patrie, mais pas la même identité .. L'histoire de Jonas ou Younes étant petit, avant d'aller vivre chez son oncle, m'a beaucoup touché, sachant que nos ancêtres étaient dans le même état sous l'effet du colonialisme ..... La fin m'a coupé le souffle, j'étais ébloui."Le vrai talent de Khadra est là". Pour ceux qui n'apprécient pas l'auteur, On doit avouer qu'il a vraiment du talent.Les romans qui se déroulent dans cette période sanglante du passé commun de ces deux communautés m'ont toujours intéressé, et ce livre est parmi les meilleurs qui décrivent cette époque... less

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