Las cosas que llevaban los hombres que lucharon

Tim O'Brien, jeune homme projeté malgré lui dans le tumulte d'un conflit sanglant, celui du Vietnam, tente, vingt ans après, d'exorciser les fantômes qui le hantent. Devenu écrivain, il se met en scène au côté de ses compagnons d'armes dont il fait, par la grâce d'un alliage subtil entre m�...

"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and d...

Over time, Tim O'Brien has used both art and artifice to shape his fictional accounts of Vietnam. Award-winning novels such as Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides to walk to Paris, leaving only a trail of M&M's in his wake; a you...

"In October, near the end of the month, Cacciato left the war." In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad ar...