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Cargando... A Chain of Voices (1982)por André Brink
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 I came away from this powerful and disturbing book thinking all manner of things: that the persistence of white slaveholding so far into the ''enlightened'' 19th century must have laid the ground for the concentration-camp systems and slave-labor projects of the totalitarian nations at war in the 20th century; that organized religion by and large played a shameful role in offering rationalizations for slavery; that no one is free so long as anyone is subjected and abased; that women will appreciate this last point more readily than most men. ''A Chain of Voices'' makes most of the fashionable junk that parades as advanced fiction today look bad. It is the best novel I've read since Robert Stone's ''A Flag for Sunrise,'' and I don't imagine it will be soon before we see a better one. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion's leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boys who would become his masters. His first victim, Nicholas van der Merwe, might have been his brother.As the many layers of Andre Brink's novel unfold, it becomes clear that the violent uprising is as much a culmination of family tensions as it is an outcry against the oppression of slavery.Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, A Chain of Voices is reminiscent of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!; it is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racism's plague on South Africa. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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> UN TURBULENT SILENCE, de André Brink, Le Livre de poche. — La comparaison s’impose avec le Nat Turner de Styron. Chez Brink, la révolte d’esclaves se déroule en 1824 dans une région reculée de l’Afrique du Sud. Contre deux fermiers blancs se dressent une poignée de travailleurs noirs avec à leur tête Galant qui est — coïncidence heureuse que tout romancier rêve de rencontrer un jour — frère de lait d’un des jeunes Blancs. Avec une parfaite maîtrise. Brink, un des grands romanciers afrikaans actuels, noue en alternance les témoignages des divers acteurs de ce drame historique.
De ce long récit d’une brutalité souvent insoutenable émergent deux silhouettes inoubliables dans leur révolte ; Galant bien sûr, mais surtout Hester, la femme blanche, dont la condition est sous bien des aspects semblables à celle de l’esclave noir. Leur brève rencontre fait jaillir l’étincelle de l’espoir de la liberté. (Gilbert GRAND)
—Le devoir, (134), 11 juin 1983, (p. 20)