World war Z : une histoire orale de la Guerre des zombies

Une histoire orale de la guerre des Zombies

Tapa blanda, 432 páginas

Idioma French

Publicado el 22 de enero de 2009 por CALMANN-LEVY.

ISBN:
978-2-7021-3973-8
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“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of …

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Guerra Mundial Z

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Me ha resultado muy entretenido, uno de esos libros que no puedes dejar de leer y que se devoran sin darte cuenta. Está escrito con un estilo periodístico sobrio, pues lo que se supone que leemos es un informe fruto de las entrevistas de un investigador. Cada una de esas entrevistas conforma un relato breve de un superviviente en un lugar del mundo.

Hasta aquí todo bien. ¿Lo malo? Pues un montón de cosas:

  • La principal es la típica falta de profundidad del lenguaje propia de todo bestseller de moda y que a mí me deja una sensación de vacío tremenda. Una cosa es que el estilo sea sobrio y otra cosa que no exista ninguna ambición de hacer algo que merezca la pena con las palabras.

  • Todos los personajes tienen la misma voz. Esto se hace especialmente tedioso y me parece un fallo estilístico imperdonable. Vale que lo que …

One for US military enthusiasts

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Some time in the 2000s I remember stumbling on a lengthy set of Reddit posts asking "what if a force of modern US Marines found themselves stranded in Ancient Rome?". Much of this book is that, but for the zombie apocalypse. If you enjoyed that Reddit series then you'll probably enjoy this in the same way.

At other points in this fictional "oral history" I found myself thinking fondly of the late Studs Terkel's engrossing (real) oral history book Hard Times. I noticed Studs was thanked in the Afterword (along with George Romero, obvs). Hard Times is a classic because it captures different overlapping experiences of the Great Depression in people's own words, recorded by the author with dignity and respect. I think Max Brooks aimed for a fictional form of this, but missed the heart and soul of it - overlapping accounts of the same experience told by real, …

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