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2 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.5454
- isbn: 9782869062290
- eisbn: 9782869064416
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Jacqueline Berben-Masi, « Getting to First Base: Baseball as Organizing Metaphor in Suder », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.5454
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As a first novel, Suder’s promise shines through. Baseball provides an informative metaphor while jazz furnishes the ultimate clue in the wandering protagonist’s search for identity. Like many a bildungsroman, this book follows the thematic pattern of an underlying heroic quest. It is rife with intertextuality and nods at the author’s favourite literary models. The humor is sometimes a bit slapstick, but it is never gratuitous. Despite any shortcomings, the novel executes the implicit contract with the reader: in exchange for the latter’s suspension of disbelief, the author entertains and informs us in our everyday living experience.