an excellent novel ... but an archaic translation

an excellent novel ... but an archaic translation

The Face of Another (Paperback)

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The beautiful novel by Thomas Tryon, The Other, become a magnificent film by Robert Mulligan, covers a territory repeatedly treated in literature and film, but-perhaps never with such force, that of childhood trauma leads here to great effect, to a madness all the more disturbing and destabilizing it has taken root behind his angelic face of a boy.
Certainly, psychological thrillers, the reader may be fed, but do not forget that "The Other" (The face of the other) is published in the early 70s, at a time when modern thrillers were still in their infancy. At that time, Ira Levin wrote "Rosemary's baby" then became the cult film by Roman Polanski. Today, the novelists who enter the thriller are all targeting the shock and bloody effects. But they forget the narration. Thomas Tryon has the unique talent to build a structured story without ever the reader may not anticipate events. The narrator takes the time to ask decor, atmosphere, characters, and delays the maximum entry of the story at the heart of the storm. A modern reader, accustomed to the novels of Dan Symmons or those of Maxime Chattam, may find along time and wait until the story begins, but in fact it risks missing out on the essential. Indeed, "The Other" hidden advance, that is to say that the stakes of the drama are already present when it opened, but the narrator is careful not to specify the player.
I do not understand the success that had the novel in France. Translation Colette-Marie Huet was for me a torment of each page. Me who loves sophisticated and aesthetic writings of the great romantic and gothic authors (Emily Bronte, Victor Hugo, Bram Stocker, Ann Radcliffe), I could never get used to this translation which seemed archaic, a heaviness that does not do justice to the style of Thomas Tryon. To read another excellent novel by this author, "The feast of corn," translates another translator, I came to realize that he wrote very well. But the literary style of the translation of the "Face of Another" never allows the narrative to deliver the perfection of his dramatic construction as reading is disturbed in its course by winding sentences (to be read several times understand its meaning).
My rating reflects this aggravating factor. Otherwise, the novel itself deserves 5 stars.

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