Lignes

By Ryu Murakami

1998

First Published

3.61

Average Rating

254

Number of Pages

7H42M

Audio Length

Que deviennent les hommes lorsque leur propre humanité a fini par déserter ? Victimes d'une solitude extrême, en proie à leurs pulsions violentes, les passants qui hantent Lignes s'entrecroisent, sans que leurs destins s'en trouvent modifiés ou enrichis. Tout au plus pourra-t-on remarquer une cicatrice de plus, un espoir déçu supplémentaire. La désincarnation est telle que Ryû Murakami rend la compassion presque impossible et bien que l'on soit assailli par la froide vacuité de ses personnages, la sympathie à leur égard n'est pas chose évidente. L'exposé n'en est que plus magistral, la stérilité du monde ici dépeint contamine la lecture, hésitant entre vertige et nausée. Lignes est un roman perturbant, car la violence machinale qu'il met en scène n'a ni vocation spectaculaire, ni visée moraliste. Aucune provocation de la part de l'auteur, dont la finesse et la fluidité narrative laissent s'écouler de la façon la plus naturelle possible cette nuit ordinaire à Tokyo. —Lenaïc Gravis & Jocelyn Blériot

Avg Rating

3.61

Number of Ratings

479

5 STARS

22%

4 STARS

34%

3 STARS

29%

2 STARS

11%

1 STARS

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Author

Ryu Murakami

Author · 22 books

Ryū Murakami (村上龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami. Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim. Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screen play was worked on by director Jordan Galland. However, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production. Murakami has played drums for a rock group called Coelacanth and hosted a TV talk show.