Car

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Qui n'éprouve, un jour ou l'autre, la tentation de s'approprier complètement ce qu'il aime, non seulement par désir de possession intime, mais par besoin de communier et de s'identifier avec l'objet aimé ? Tel est le cas d'Hermann Mack, fils du propriétaire d'un cimetière de voitures. Son originalité, toutefois, c'est d'être amoureux d'une automobile, une Ford dernier modèle. Aussi est-il à peine paradoxal de dire que Car est avant tout un roman d'amour. Herman, pour se l'approprier, se mettra à manger sa Ford, morceau par morceau, il ne se nourrira plus d'autre chose que de métal fondu, de bouts de moteurs et de pneus. Mais la mort plane sur ce roman, comme elle plane sur les routes : le dieu-voiture ne cesse de prélever sa dîme parmi les adorateurs. C'est donc une parabole, une fable cruelle que nous livre Harry Crews. Sa verve truculente, son humour noir et sarcastique, son refus des tabous contribuent à faire de Car à la fois un pamphlet virulent et un plaidoyer pour le retour de l'homme au bon sens et à la nature.

Genres fictionnovelssouthern gothicsouthernamericanliteraturethe united states of america

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1972

This edition

Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1996 by GALLIMARD
ISBN: 9782070746330
ASIN: 207074633X
Language: French

About the author

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Harry Eugene Crews was born during the Great Depression to sharecroppers in Bacon County, Georgia. His father died when he was an infant and his mother quickly remarried. His mother later moved her sons to Jacksonville, Florida. Crews is twice divorced and is the father of two sons. His eldest son drowned in 1964.

Crews served in the Korean War and, following the war, enrolled at the University of Florida under the G.I. Bill. After two years of school, Crews set out on an extended road trip. He returned to the University of Florida in 1958. Later, after graduating from the master's program, Crews was denied entrance to the graduate program for Creative Writing. He moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he taught English at Broward Community College. In 1968, Crews' first novel, The Gospel Singer, was published. Crews returned to the University of Florida as an English faculty member.

In spring of 1997, Crews retired from UF to devote himself fully to writing. Crews published continuously since his first novel, on average of one novel per year. He died in 2012, at the age of 78.