Candide au pays des mutants

In diverse ways, George Saunders is a merciless storyteller. The narrators of his short stories are often lucid but, feeling lost, they prove unable to solve the riddle of their dejected lives. Saunders deconstructs the triumphant discourse of the American Way, making its failures manifest. The iron...

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1. Verfasser: Chassay, Jean-François
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: 2002
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Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:In diverse ways, George Saunders is a merciless storyteller. The narrators of his short stories are often lucid but, feeling lost, they prove unable to solve the riddle of their dejected lives. Saunders deconstructs the triumphant discourse of the American Way, making its failures manifest. The irony and causticity of his style delineate the surprising features of a morally ruined country.