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Biographie et livres de John Burnside
John Burnside est né en 1955 dans le Fife, en Écosse, où il vit actuellement. Il a étudié au collège des Arts et Technologies de Cambridge. Poète reconnu, il enseigne aujourd’hui à l’université de Saint Andrews. Il est l’auteur, entre autres, des romans La Maison muette, Un mensonge sur mon père et Scintillation.
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Vintage Digital
2025-08-07
Dans une île du nord de la Norvège, un endroit désert, magnifique et spectral où l’été est miraculeusement doux et radieux, Liv vit avec sa mère, un peintre qui s’est retiré là en pleine gloire pour mieux travailler.Son seul ami est un vieil homme qui lui raconte des...
Kate, étudiante à la dérive, fait des "enquêtes' cinématographiques dans les rues désertées des banlieues pavillonnaires. Son père vient de mourir brutalement et elle noie son chagrin dans la défonce.Au cours d'une de ses déambulations, elle rencontre Jean, une vieille...
Ce texte d'une violence clinique exceptionnelle est le récit d'une “expérimentation” sur deux enfants jumeaux élevés sans contact avec la parole humaine.La violence s'infiltre peu à peu dans le récit amoral conduit sur un ton détaché, sans recherche d'effet...
Mon père a passé sa vie à dire des mensonges et, parce que je ne savais pas faire autrement, je les ai répétés.Mon monde était un tissu de mensonges, grands et petits, sur tout.Le mensonge dans le titre de cet étonnant récit est né de la honte. En voyageant au nord de...
Dans un paysage dominé par une usine chimique abandonnée, au milieu de bois empoisonnés, l'Intraville, aux immeubles hantés de bandes d'enfants sauvages, aux adultes malades ou lâches, est devenue un modèle d'enfer contemporain.Année après année, dans l'indifférence...
A remarkable collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR'A master of language' HILARY MANTELIn this powerful, moving book, John Burnside takes...
Lucid, lyrical, and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant...
From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the...
‘A master of language.’ Hilary MantelKate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary.Jean declines but makes her a bizarre counteroffer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story....
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge.The old Scots word ‘glamour’ means magical charm, and the first time he was played I Put a Spell on You, John...
Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection‘There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful recognition. And yet it is also part of his genius to be ever alert to...
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment.These are people for whom the idea of ‘home’ has become increasingly intangible, hard to believe – and happiness, or...
John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise...
The Mercy Boys are four Dundee men who meet every day in their local pub and drink: first to find order, then oblivion. Each has his own ghosts, his dreams of escape. But when death comes to the Mercy Boys it comes suddenly and with staggering violence, and their dreams...
‘Memorable, atmospheric and compelling’ Times Literary SupplementLiv lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle.Her only friend is an old man who beguiles her with tales of trolls, mermaids, and the huldra, a wild spirit who appears as an irresistably...
Twenty five years ago, during the spring and summer of 1975, a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge, attacking young, single women in their bed-sits and flats and subjecting them to horrifying and increasingly violent assaults. For several months the city endured a...
As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next turn in the road; a pair of disturbed twins commit a pointless crime;...
Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.In this Selected Poems, his territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the...
From memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover's navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquarium fish, the poems in A NORMAL SKIN cover a wide range: lyrical in tone, and highly visual,...
A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside's darkest and most powerful collection yet.
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