The Handmaid's Tale

308 pages

Publié 1 février 1993 par Heinemann Educational Publishers.

ISBN :: 978-0-435-12409-0

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" – the ruling class of men. The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale").The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also …

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" – the ruling class of men. The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale").The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series, and other media. The ebook version was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.A sequel novel, The Testaments, was published in 2019.

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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).