The Handmaid's Tale

Livre broché, 315 pages

Langue : English

Publié 10 septembre 2019 par Anchor Books.

ISBN :: 978-1-9848-9966-8

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...

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aura@books.theunseen.city a publié une critique de La Servante écarlate par Margaret Atwood (Pavillons)

Le fascisme est dans l'intime

5 étoiles

À l'occasion d'un emprunt à la médiathèque, j'ai rattrapé mon retard sur ce monument de l'anticipation féministe. J'ai adoré.

Sans rien en dire, c'est un travail génial et qui prend aux tripes.

Tout se niche dans l'intime de la protagoniste. Ses souvenirs qui nous parlent de la vie, avant. Son corps qui se courbe, qui ressent et qui désire. C'est en cela assez différent des autres récits dystopiques que j'ai pu lire.

C'est un récit d'une normalité sous un régime fasciste. D'un foyer banal, dans son fonctionnement le plus normal. C'est l'ange du foyer de Max Ernst.

C'est une lecture qui devrait être au programme au lycée.

À l'occasion d'un emprunt à la médiathèque, j'ai rattrapé mon retard sur ce monument de l'anticipation féministe. J'ai adoré.

Sans rien en dire, c'est un travail génial et qui prend aux tripes.

Tout se niche dans l'intime de la protagoniste. Ses souvenirs qui nous parlent de la vie, avant. Son corps qui se courbe, qui ressent et qui désire. C'est en cela assez différent des autres récits dystopiques que j'ai pu lire.

C'est un récit d'une normalité sous un régime fasciste. D'un foyer banal, dans son fonctionnement le plus normal. C'est l'ange du foyer de Max Ernst.

C'est une lecture qui devrait être au programme au lycée.

Lasairiona a publié une critique de The Handmaid's Tale par Margaret Atwood

Meh

2 étoiles

I read the Handmaid's Tale yesterday, finally. I'm disappointed. I did not like the writing style at all, there was no real story, just descriptions. And then it just ended. No conclusion or anything.

My best guess it's because the TV show was so intense and well made (at least the earlier seasons), and the book was... Not? Episodes would stay with me for days, but I'm struggling to recall the book.

Maybe the book is supposed to be unsatisfying to go with the theme. Nothing much happened after Gilead was created, every day just kinda goes by. Sure there was some torture and death, but... Eh.

Maybe I was expecting too much after all the praise it got. It's my first Atwood book, and way way outside of my usual genre (fantasy, scifi, horror).

I read the Handmaid's Tale yesterday, finally. I'm disappointed. I did not like the writing style at all, there was no real story, just descriptions. And then it just ended. No conclusion or anything.

My best guess it's because the TV show was so intense and well made (at least the earlier seasons), and the book was... Not? Episodes would stay with me for days, but I'm struggling to recall the book.

Maybe the book is supposed to be unsatisfying to go with the theme. Nothing much happened after Gilead was created, every day just kinda goes by. Sure there was some torture and death, but... Eh.

Maybe I was expecting too much after all the praise it got. It's my first Atwood book, and way way outside of my usual genre (fantasy, scifi, horror).