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Fields of Glory

by Jean Rouaud

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Series: Les champs d'honneur (1)

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The setting may be the rainy lower Loire Valley of the 1950s, but it is the WW I battlefields of Artois, Meuse, Lorraine, and Yser that form the emotional backdrop to this poignant testament to the vitality of life that death cannot dim. Fields of Glory begins as a collection of utterly charming reminiscences of the eccentricities of family elders told by an unnamed and indeterminately aged narrator. In pure and graceful prose, Rouaud describes crotchety grandfather Burgaud with his equally difficult car, a cramped and leaky CV2, and maiden great-aunt Marie with her card file of saints--"A prefatory catalogue of terrifying symptoms refers the reader to the saint specializing in the corresponding disorder. The work of a lifetime." It is in the midst of this comedy of daily life that the melancholy subtext of three generations slowly emerges: the stories of the two young men who were casualties of the Fields of Glory and the family that remains to remember them. … (more)
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Jean Rouaud ne devrait pas passer longtemps inaperçu de ses contemporains, qui suspecteront en lui l'une des plus soudaines et des plus étonnantes révélations de la décennie. Mettons, du quinquennat, pour ne désobliger personne.
Jean-Louis Ezine, le Nouvel Observateur

Sans nostalgie, sans banalité, Jean Rouaud rend hommage à ces Français qu'on dit moyens... L'écriture, très belle, frappe par son ampleur et sa grande justesse.
Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Lire

Les champs d'honneur est mieux qu'un livre réussi dont on discute les vertus et qu'on range ensuite dans une hiérarchie serrée des mérites. Il est l'un de ces rares, de ces très rares livres, qui emportent l'immédiate conviction; conviction qu'on brûle de faire partager.
Patrick Kéchichian, le Monde

« Avez-vous lu Rouaud ? » La rumeur court, flatteuse, résonne dans le plus puissant circuit de publicité, le bouche à oreille. ... C'est toujours émouvant, la naissance d'un écrivain, et c'en est un assuré¬ment, qui ne doit rien aux modes, ni aux procédés de fabrication, ni à la frénétique course aux prix. ... Il a écrit parce qu'il avait quelque chose à dire ; il le dit d'une écriture très élaborée mais limpide, souple, aisée.
Françoise Giroud, le Journal du dimanche
  Haijavivi | Jun 5, 2019 |
-if it is this good in translation, I want to learn French to get into the original ( )
1 vote mykl-s | Aug 28, 2013 |
An exquisitely written and crafted gem by a great literary stylist. Understated and moving drama revealing the ongoing repercussions of the Great War. ( )
  jensenmk82 | Aug 8, 2009 |
Njä ( )
  b11haa | Dec 22, 2007 |
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Rouaud, JeanAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Haan, Frans deTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaas, MarianneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Montfrans, Manet vanEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Eigenlijk was het de wet van de reeksen, triest wiskundig spelsysteem waarvan we plotseling het geheim ontdekten - een geheim ontsluierd sinds de nacht der tijden maar telkens weer toegedekt dat, ruw geopenbaard, erin gehamerd, ons sprakeloos achterliet, wezenloos van verdriet.
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The setting may be the rainy lower Loire Valley of the 1950s, but it is the WW I battlefields of Artois, Meuse, Lorraine, and Yser that form the emotional backdrop to this poignant testament to the vitality of life that death cannot dim. Fields of Glory begins as a collection of utterly charming reminiscences of the eccentricities of family elders told by an unnamed and indeterminately aged narrator. In pure and graceful prose, Rouaud describes crotchety grandfather Burgaud with his equally difficult car, a cramped and leaky CV2, and maiden great-aunt Marie with her card file of saints--"A prefatory catalogue of terrifying symptoms refers the reader to the saint specializing in the corresponding disorder. The work of a lifetime." It is in the midst of this comedy of daily life that the melancholy subtext of three generations slowly emerges: the stories of the two young men who were casualties of the Fields of Glory and the family that remains to remember them. 

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One family's grandchildren recount the eccentricities and foibles of their grandparents, whose lives have remained in the timewarp of World War I "fields of glory". Awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize, this novel vaulted author Jean Rouaud from anonymity to acclaim as the freshest literary voice in France in decades.
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