Broché: 244 pages
- Editeur : Editions de l'Olivier (3 janvier 2008)
- Collection : OLIV. LIT.ET
- Langue : Français
- ISBN-10: 2879295912
- ISBN-13: 978-2879295916
Présentation de l'éditeur
L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres. Un père et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites et de vieilles couvertures. Ils sont sur leurs gardes car le danger peut surgir à tout moment. Ils affrontent la pluie, la neige, le froid. Et ce qui reste d'une humanité retournée à la barbarie. Cormac McCarthy raconte leur odyssée dans ce récit dépouillé à l'extrême. Prix Pulitzer 2007, La Route s'est vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis.
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Adaptation en film
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified cataclysm has killed all plant and animal life. Civilization has collapsed, reducing the survivors to scavenging, and in some cases, cannibalism. They search for supplies as they travel south on a road to the coast, in the hope it will be warmer. The man carries a revolver, but has only two bullets.
Intermittent flashbacks reveal the man's wife had given birth to the child shortly after the catastrophe. She eventually committed suicide.
Categories:
Cormac McCarthy,
Post-Apocalyptic,
Roman,
Translation