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Un enfant du pays

Un enfant du pays

de Richard Wright

Titre original : Native Son · Première publication en 1940 · 399 pages · environ 7 heures de lecture

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Native Son (1940) est un roman de l'auteur américain Richard Wright. Il raconte l'histoire de Bigger Thomas, un jeune Noir de vingt ans qui vit dans une misère profonde dans un quartier pauvre du South Side de Chicago, dans les années 1930.

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Citations

  • “These were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force.”
    p. 31En anglais
  • “Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed ... It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
    En anglais
  • “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
    En anglais
  • “Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot or a conspiracy. Every hope is a plan for insurrection. Every glance of the eye is a threat. His very existence is a crime against the state!”
    En anglais
  • “But he is product of a dislocated society; he is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out.”
    p. xxEn anglais

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