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The Age of Confession / L'ge de la confession

Autor Neil Bissoondath
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2007
In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary activity in the human experience. The stories that we tell ourselves, as well as those we hear from others, help to answer the question of who we are, "as individuals, as familial beings, as social beings." On a deeper level, stories are also subtle forms of confession. They reveal our dreams and desires, our fears and fantasies, our hurts and pleasures. Sifting through history, Bissoondath examines how governments, both totalitarian and democratic, have sought to control and to simplify narrative. Novelists, to different and contradictory ends, have used narrative as a sphere of exploration and discovery, where questions are numerous and answers are rare. Fiction, suggests Bissoondath, is a subtle, yet powerful narrative form, unsurpassed in its ability to confirm human complexity and to affirm human existence. Dans cet essai difiant, Neil Bissoondath explore la puissante influence qu'exerce la narration sur la psych humaine. Raconter des histoires est une activit primordiale dans l'exprience humaine. Les histoires que nous-mmes racontons, de mme que celles que nous entendons raconter par d'autres, nous aident rpondre la question de savoir qui nous sommes "en tant que personnes, en tant que membres d'une famille, en tant qu'tres sociables". un niveau plus profond, les histoires sont aussi une forme subtile de confessions. Elles rvlent nos rves et nos dsirs, nos peurs et nos fantasmes, ce qui nous blesse ou nous fait plaisir. Puisant des exemples dans l'histoire, Bissoondath examine comment les gouvernements, tant totalitaires que dmocratiques, ont cherch contrler et simplifier la narration. Les romanciers, quant eux, ont utilis la narration des fins diffrentes et contradictoires comme une sphre d'exploration et de dcouvertes, o les questions sont nombreuses et o les rponses sont rares. Bissoondath suggre que la fiction est une forme de narration subtile mais nanmoins puissante, qui est sans gale dans sa capacit confirmer la complexit des hommes et affirmer l'existence humaine.
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ISBN-13: 9780864924827
ISBN-10: 0864924828
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:Bilingual Text.
Editura: Goose Lane Editions
Colecția Goose Lane Editions

Notă biografică

Born in Trinidad, Neil Bissoondath has lived in Canada for more than thirty years. He is the author of six works of fiction and a controversial work of nonfiction entitled Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada. He has received the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His work has been short listed for the Governor General's Award, the Guardian Fiction Award (UK), and the Prix Femina Étranger (France). He teaches creative writing at Université Laval in Quebec City.

Né à Trinidad, Neil Bissoondath vit au Canada depuis plus de 30 ans. Il est l'auteur de six oeuvres de fiction et d'un essai controversé intitulé Le marché aux illusions: la méprise du multiculturalisme au Canada (traduction de Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada). Il a remporté le Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award et le prix Hugh MacLellan remis à la meilleure oeuvre de fiction. Ses ouvrages ont été finalistes au Prix du gouverneur général, au Guardian Fiction Award (Royaume-Uni) et au prix Fémina étranger (France). Il est professeur en création littéraire à l'Université Laval, à Québec.