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George Sand

Nanon

Nanon, née en 1775, raconte en 1850 les événements qu'elle a vécus dans son enfance et sa jeunesse. La période prérévolutionnaire est évoquée comme un temps immémorial, où rien ne semble devoir changer. On apprend la prise de la Bastille un jour de marché. George Sand évoque fort bien la Grande Peur dans ce qu'elle a d'irrationnel et de terrifiant, la fête de la Fédération, moment d'exaltation et de bonheur, puis la vente des biens nationaux. Ainsi, Nanon peut devenir propriétaire de sa maison…

C'est une vue de la Révolution, équilibrée et sans fanatisme, que donne ce grand roman. Paru en 1872 – George Sand a donc soixante-huit ans -, il témoigne que la capacité de travail et la force d'invention sont intactes chez la romancière. Forte d'une documentation impressionnante, l'auteur conduit le récit avec une allégresse et une célérité qui nous étonnent. Nanon est un des très rares romans qui traite de la Révolution Française dans les campagnes, vue à travers les yeux d'une paysanne.

George Saunders

In Persuasion Nation

George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a devoted cult-following with his first two story collections and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. With his new book, In Persuasion Nation, Saunders ups the ante in every way, and is poised to break out to a wide new audience.

The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublished work, and stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. The stories in this volume work together as a whole whose impact far exceeds the simple sum of its parts. Fans of Saunders know and love him for his sharp and hilarious satirical eye. But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing.

Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest-and most consoling-cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise. In Persuasion Nation's sophistication and populism should establish Saunders once and for all as this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humor in a time when we need it most.

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