Amélie Nothomb
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 188 pages Rating: 3.66 | 4599 Users | 377 Reviews
Point Books In Favor Of Mercure
| Original Title: | Mercure |
| ISBN: | 225314911X (ISBN13: 9782253149118) |
| Edition Language: | French |
Description Supposing Books Mercure
Sur une île au large de Cherbourg, un vieil homme et une jeune fille vivent isolés, entourés de serviteurs et de gardes du corps, à l’abri de tout reflet ; en aucun cas Hazel ne doit voir son propre visage.Engagée pour soigner la jeune fille, Françoise, une infirmière, va découvrir pourquoi Hazel se résigne aux caresses du vieillard. Elle comprendra au prix de quelle implacable machination ce dernier assouvit un amour fou, paroxystique…
Au cœur de ce huis clos inquiétant, Amélie Nothomb retrouve ses thèmes de prédilection : l’amour absolu et ses illusions, la passion indissociable de la perversité.
*** Book in French language ! ***Assez bon état (un peu marqué aux coiffes), in12 broché, n°14911 , Auteur : NOTHOMB, Amélie , Titre : Mercure , couverture souple, format poche , éditions : Le livre de poche de 2000
Itemize Containing Books Mercure
| Title | : | Mercure |
| Author | : | Amélie Nothomb |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 188 pages |
| Published | : | January 4th 2005 by Livre de Poche (first published August 27th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Contemporary. European Literature. French Literature |
Rating Containing Books Mercure
Ratings: 3.66 From 4599 Users | 377 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books Mercure
Weird. Short. Unsatisfying ending. However, a welcome change of pace from my usual reads.The two endings are great and really interesting.
I'm so conflicted about this one... On the surface it's like a gothic tale with the cunning sailor and the fair maiden he keeps secluded on his private island, not so much by force but by a big lie, or life lie, that seems very unlikely to have been sustainable, even with the precautions Omer is ready to go into.... The role of Francoice as the bringer of justice and the one who opens the eyes of others (at least in one of the endings) was interesting but seemed a bit underdeveloped. Actually
I'm feeling too lazy to write in french- this little book was an interesting reflection (haha) on all the meanings and symbols of mercury, as well as narcissism/society's obsession with beauty, greed, different kinds of prisons, the difference between maturity and one's actual age and other nuances. It's interesting how the books that Hazel and Françoise talked about should have been a means for the two of them to communicate secretly (especially given the reference to the charterhouse of
Classic Nothomb - Eccentric and strange in all the right ways.
The two endings are great and really interesting.
One of the strangest books I ever read, apart from maybe Kafka's Metamorphosis, but this is much more thought-provoking and suspenseful. I never really guessed what would happen from one page to the next, even though I did figure out the big 'reveal' at the end. Mercure comes with two endings, both of which are enjoyable and rather different to each other. I read this in French, and found it fairly accessible - the language isn't overly flowery and the story unfolds briskly enough over only 188
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