Jack of spades, Joyce Carol Oates

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Comme je suis sûr qu'il y a des lecteurs d'oates qui trainent ici, son nouveau livre (parution aux US le 5 mai) devraient en interesser plus d'un.

Un extrait de la critique de Locus :

"Jack of Spades is very much an homage to ideas and themes in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and readers could be forgiven for thinking of it in terms similar to those of Poe’s tale ‘‘William Wilson,’’ which ends with the erosion of the boundary separating the narrator’s personality from that of his inescapable doppelgänger. In her story of Andrew Rush, a writer who liberates the dark side of his personality by letting it express itself as a pseudonymous alter ego, Oates has found a marvelous modern parallel to Poe’s tales of neurotic narrators struggling to project the appearance of sanity even as they are being overwhelmed by the emotions undoing them. Her novel is a thrilling excursion into the literary macabre that persuades us to buy into the story Andrew J. Rush has crafted about himself, then pulls the rug out from under us – just as Jack of Spades would do."