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S'està carregant… Eleazar, Exodus to the Westde Michel Tournier
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Eléazar, irlandais et pasteur, part pour l'Amérique où il entreprend de traverser le continent pour aller en Californie. Mais peu à peu les pas d'Eléazar se mettent dans ceux de Moïse et c'est un nouvel Exode avec veau d'or, tribus hostiles et surtout sources qui se met en place. Et cela se passe comme cela devait se passer avec un nouvel Aaron qui nous ramènera au final aux figures de l'Amérique moderne. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Michel Tournier's Eleazar, Exodus to the West is a modern successor to two seemingly disparate myths-the biblical adventure of the Exodus and the nineteenth-century myth of the American frontier. The setting is 1845. Eleazar, a Protestant minister, leaves his native Ireland with his wife and two children to emigrate to America. Like the Old Testament Moses, with whom Eleazar comes to identify through the course of the novel, Eleazar has committed a justifiable murder and is forced to leave his home. After landing in Virginia, the family travels west toward what Eleazar believes is the Promised Land of California. While in the Colorado desert, however, he experiences a profound epiphany. He understands for the first time how the prophet Moses was tragically torn between fire and water: between the burning bush, with its power to bring him into contact with the voice of Yahweh, and the banal demands of the Hebrew people in exile, who depended on him to touch his stick to the rock and bring forth water. Eleazar, Exodus to the West parallels the lives of the two misfits-the Irish minister in the American West and the Hebrew Moses in exile in the desert after leaving Egypt. Tournier sets before us timeless issues and tantalizing questions from our mythological past: Moses' personality and peculiar relationship with God, fundamental contradictions between the Old and the New Testaments, and our own intimate bond with the eternal symbols of fire and water. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)843.914Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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