Between heaven and earth, Jón Kalman Stefánsson I note the publication of a critique of the novel in L'Express
http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/entre-ciel-et- terre_907452.html Stefánsson Horse Heaven and Earth By Baptiste Liger, published on 22/07/2010 at 07:00
A fisherman died of being haunted by the poetry. A great novel mystical Icelandic.
There is hardly a letter difference between "dead" and "words". We do not know what it is in Icelandic: always Is that Jón Kalman Stefánsson has sought, with Between Heaven and Earth, exploring the relationship between literature and beyond. Thus, this book has claimed the lives Bárour, at least indirectly.
Haunted by the verses of Paradise Lost John Milton of Columbia, the fisher of Iceland-nothing to do with that of Pierre Loti - did not care to put his damn jacket during an outing at sea " That's the kind of tricks we can play poetry. [...] The words provide only a lightweight shelter against the wind from the pole that pierces everything and interferes in the flesh. " The intense cold of the open ocean will be right for him and his fishing buddies bring back his body to the ground. Among these, the "kid" is particularly upset by his disappearance. He has emerged as a moral duty, a tribute to his friend Bárour, making the book to its owner, Kolbeinn, a blind old man "as fierce a wolfish" out of Homer.
could obviously welcome the beautiful evocation of Iceland nineteenth century and the admirable portrait of the fishermen community. But besides that aspect "naturalist," Between Heaven and Earth is a great mystical odyssey, where the voices of the dead intermingle with those of the living. In a language of absolute splendor (remarkably transcribed by the translation of Eric Boury), Jón Kalman Stefánsson ponders posterity, and the meaning of life, as in this aphorism to the tunes of his admirable summary of the novel: "Our words are helpless rescue brigades, equipped with maps Geography unusable and birdsong as a compass. "
I would also read the beginning of this text (Gallimard, World wide, 2010) by Martine Laval, literary critic to Telerama:
http://www.telerama.fr/livre/lectures-buissonnieres- version-voiceover-from-heaven-and-land-of-jon-Kalman-Stefansson, 55458.php To listen ...