Jack is a missing scientist, converted into office employee. But one day in 1937, a golden opportunity presents itself: incorporating an expedition in the Arctic. So Gruhuken part in a remote area of the North Pole with four men and eight dogs but nothing goes as planned. A curse seems to weigh on them and little by little, each fellow Jack is forced to abandon lexpédition. The young man soon finds himself alone in a night nen ends. But is it really alone?
I knew that I will find in 40 Days of Night, the harrowing climate Last winter, the novel by Jean-Luc Marcastel. Although completely different, I Navais not imagined it would be worse.
Written in diary form, 40 days of night knows raise tension. We follow the daily and Jack. I marveled with him before the beautiful landscape of the Fjord, I was moved by boreal laurore. The writing of Michelle Paver is really beautiful: it makes us go through all kinds of emotions. For if times the book were conducive to lémerveillement, a large part of 40 days of night puts us in a deep anguish. The author does indeed play with our greatest fears: those of black and loneliness. I liked the "ambiguous" with Jack: Polar Night fascinates him but at the same time, it terrifies him. In its place jaurais also afraid! Because this is where the great strength of the novel, Jack is like us, so it is very easy to sidentifier to him, which is all the more distressing because i shared his fear, his paranoia, his distress, knowing quen addition, at that time, technology, it wasnt too much. Jack was truly delivered himself!
40 days of night is an excellent novel of adventure. Michelle Paver put me to travel by beautiful descriptions (dailleurs sest made what we feel in Longyearbyen) but also by its use of local legends. Despite the fear that my procured reading this, I hope to one day travel to the far north because as the author says Jack through:
I love this place. Jaime also clarity and desolation of the place. Yes, even cruelty. Because what is authentic and what is part of life. "
