RESUME
CE QUE J'EN AI PENSE
Retour en Grèce avec Victoria Hislop. Dans ce roman, l'écrivaine nous fait découvrir la face cachée de l'archéologie et le commerce illégal dont font l'objet les antiquités volées. Encore une fois, Victoria Hislop crée des personnages fictifs d'une humanité criante. On s'attache immédiatement à l'héroïne, grecque par sa mère et anglaise par son père. A travers ce métissage, Victoria Hislop insère un point de vue original sur l'histoire grecque de la fin du XXème siècle, à la fois interne et externe et nous mène dans le XXIème siècle. La Statuette est un roman émouvant chargé en émotions avec ses drames familiaux, ses relations amoureuses dangereuses, ses amitiés qui se tissent petit à petit jusqu'à devenir puissantes. Mais c'est aussi un roman passionnant avec à la fois une portée historique fascinante et un regard contemporain critique très intéressant. La statuette se dévore en quelques heures. Un roman que je vous recommande vivement.
SUMMARY
Of all the ancient art that captures the imagination, none is more appealing than the Cycladic figurine. An air of mystery swirls around these statuettes from the Bronze Age and they are highly sought after by collectors - and looters - alike.
When Helena inherits her grandparents' apartment in Athens, she is overwhelmed with memories of the summers she spent there as a child, when Greece was under a brutal military dictatorship. Her remote, cruel grandfather was one of the regime's generals and as she sifts through the dusty rooms, Helena discovers an array of valuable objects and antiquities. How did her grandfather amass such a trove? What human price was paid for them
Helena's desire to find answers about her heritage dovetails with a growing curiosity for archaeology, ignited by a summer spent with volunteers on a dig on an Aegean island. Their finds fuel her determination to protect the precious fragments recovered from the baked earth - and to understand the origins of her grandfather's collection.
Helena's attempt to make amends for some of her grandfather's actions sees her wrestle with the meaning of 'home', both in relation to looted objects of antiquity ... and herself.
MY THOUGHTS
Back to Greece with Victoria Hislop. In this novel, the author reveals the hidden face of archaeology and the illegal trade in stolen antiquities. Once again, Victoria Hislop creates fictional characters of striking humanity. We immediately become attached to the heroine, who is Greek through her mother and English through her father. Through this intermingling, Victoria Hislop inserts an original point of view on Greek history at the end of the 20th century, both internal and external, and brings us into the 21st century. The Figurine is a moving, emotionally-charged novel, with its family dramas, dangerous love affairs and friendships that gradually grow to become powerful. But it is also a thrilling novel, with both fascinating historical significance and a highly interesting critical contemporary perspective. The Figurine can be devoured in just a few hours. A novel I highly recommend.


Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire