9781559704052
The World More or Less
Jean Rouaud; Barbara Wright
ISBN 13: 9781559704052
Publisher: Arcade Pub
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
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The World More or Less completes Jean Rouaud's celebrated autobiographical trilogy about his family and his journey toward becoming a writer - a trilogy that began with Fields of Glory (winner of the Goncourt Prize), followed by Of Illustrious Men. The novel tells the story of a young man caught between adolescent self-pity and adult self-acceptance. For him the world is both hostile and enticing; he is at a crossroads. Awkward, dreamy, lonely, longing, still grieving for the deaths of his father, grandfather, and aunt, he is also very nearsighted. This gives him a sort of double vision: putting on his glasses brings the world into focus, taking them off blurs it. Our view of him, too, is double, one of proximity and distance, for it is formed by the young man's searing self-scrutiny and the writer-to-be's maturer judgment. Sharing this more-or-less world are Theo and Gyf, lover and friend, one whose life is a mystery, the other who wants to capture life's mystery on film.
Review:
"A highly appealing portrait of the artist through boyhood and adolescence, which completes an autobiographical trilogy....It's both Rouaud's strength and limitation that his exclusive subject (identified here as his 'myopia') appears to be his family and himself. The so-called trilogy may be completed, but one expects the story to continue."
Kirkus, 02/01/1998
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