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Auteur(s) : Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969)
Titre(s) : The village in the jungle [Texte imprimé] : a novel / Leonard Woolf ; with an afterword by Christopher Ondaatje
Publication : London : Eland, 2008
Description matérielle : 209 pages ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Contient aussi : "Pearls and Swine"
A village in the jungle : This novel, set in Ceylon, follows the lives of a handful
of villagers hacking out a fragile existence in a jungle where indiscriminate growth,
indifferent fate and malevolent neighbours constantly threaten to overwhelm them ;
Pearls and swine: In this story, the narrator is on a week's holiday in a "large gaudy
uncomfortably comfortable hotel" in Torquay. It's evening, and the male guests have
gathered in the "smoking rooms" and are drinking before going to bed. The subject
at hand is colonialism, "Indian unrest" and how the colonies should be "managed."
Each man has his own theory of what should be done, and pomposity, ignorance, and
hypocrisy are thick in the air that night, until finally a man who's lived in Ceylon
for years weighs in
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ondaatje, Christopher. Postfacier
Indice(s) Dewey :
823.912 (23e éd.) = Roman de langue anglaise - 1900-1945 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780907871293. - ISBN 0907871291 (br.). - ISBN 9780907871291 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47233850w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47233850
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A village in the jungle -- ; Pearls and Swine -- ; Afterword.
