with Jaume Cabré's "Confessions"
Attention: this bookclub takes place on a Tuesday.
The next session of the season of Lisez l'Europe will feature Catalonia, and will take place Tuesday March 14th at 6 pm at the Barcelona Bar Espresso.
The book chosen for this session is "Confessions", by Jaume Cabré. The discussion will be held in French.
About the book:
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man's life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony.
I confess.
At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's, Adri Ardèvol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father s study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni violin retains the shadows of a crime committed many years earlier. His mother, a cold, distant and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games, full of unwanted questions. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adri's world with guilt, secrets and deeply troubling mysteries that take him years to uncover and driving him deep into the past where atrocities are methodically exposed and examined. Gliding effortlessly between centuries, and at the same time providing a powerful narrative that is at once shocking, compelling, mysterious, tragic, humorous and gloriously readable, Confessions reaches a crescendo that is not only unexpected but provides one of the most startling denouements in contemporary literature. Confessions is a consummate masterpiece in any language, with an ending that will not just leave you thinking, but quite possibly change the way you think forever. (amazon.ca)
The book (in French) can be obtained at the following libraries:
Librairie Gallimard
514 499-2012
Librairie Olivieri
514 739-3639
Librairie du Square
514 845-7617
You can find the
Catalan ebook version online at c
hapters.indigo.ca, and the
French ebook version online at
leslibraires.ca.
French copies are also available through the
Grande Bibliothèque and the
Montreal public library system.
One copy in Catalan and one in
French are available at the
Bibliothèque de lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Montréal.
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