Jack

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times ' Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack , the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times ' Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack , the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times ' Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack , the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

Jack fut d'abord publi en feuilleton dans Le Moniteur universel du 15 juin au 2 octobre 1875, puis chez Dentu en 1876. Ce livre de piti , de col re et d'ironie est d di Gustave Flaubert, mon ami et mon ma tre. Alphonse Daudet Jack, un gar onnet de sept huit ans, est plac comme pensionnaire au Gymnase Moronval par sa m re, Mme Ida de Barancy. Dans ce coll ge, celle-ci rencontre d'Argenton, un professeur de litt rature, chef de file des Rat s. Commence pour le pauvre enfant une vie cruelle.

Jack fut d'abord publi en feuilleton dans Le Moniteur universel du 15 juin au 2 octobre 1875, puis chez Dentu en 1876. Ce livre de piti , de col re et d'ironie est d di Gustave Flaubert, mon ami et mon ma tre. Alphonse Daudet Jack, un gar onnet de sept huit ans, est plac comme pensionnaire au Gymnase Moronval par sa m re, Mme Ida de Barancy. Dans ce coll ge, celle-ci rencontre d'Argenton, un professeur de litt rature, chef de file des Rat s. Commence pour le pauvre enfant une vie cruelle.

John Ames Boughton, Jack, er den fortabte søn af Gileads presbyterianske præst. Han er stukket af hjemmefra og lever som hjemløs i St. Louis. Her forelsker han sig voldsomt i den afro-amerikanske Della Miles, en generøs, uafhængig high school-lærer, der også er barn af en prædikant. Jack og Dellas dybtfølte, plagede og uheldsvangre kærlighedshistorie i 1950’ernes segregerede St. Louis resonerer med alle paradokser i det amerikanske liv - dengang og nu. En fortælling om skyld, skam, kærlighed, forventninger, skuffelse og et møde i poesien. Gilead-romanerne af den amerikanske forfatter Marilynne Robinson kredser om vores følelsers kraft og kompleksiteten i den amerikanske historie efter Borgerkrigen; de undersøger bl.a. hvordan Borgerkrigen stadig påvirker spørgsmålene om race og religion i det 20. og 21. århundredes USA. Jack kan læses selvstændigt. Denne bog er oversat af Juliane Wammen.