Un cyclone à la Dominique

Deux plutôt, à trois décennies d’intervalle, David en 1979 et Dean en 2007, et de plein fouet. Les épaves à Portsmouth sont éloquentes.

     

Occasion de lire ou relire un best-seller du siècle dernier, Un cyclone à la Jamaïque, classique de la littérature de pirates  

Richard Hughes’s celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood. (NYRB)

Aussi un film de 1965, avec Anthony Quinn et James Coburn.

Étiquettes : Anthony Quinn, Cyclone, Dominica, Epaves, James Coburn, Ouragan, Pirates, plantation houses, Richard Hugues, short novel, twentieth century literature