C'est en tout cas l'avis de Richard Wilson qui a rédigé un papier en anglais sur le site du Times. Son titre : Les 10 livres a ne pas lire avant de mourir. Et dedans donc le Seigneur des Anneaux. Mais tout le monde est servit : James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust, ou Homère.
Voici le passage sur Tolkien :
9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien
"There’s a brilliant scene in the much-underrated sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, when Sergeant Major Williams (Windsor Davies) snatches a book from Mr La-di-dah Gunner Graham and says:
‘What’s this you’re reading? Useless?’
‘Ulysses, Sergeant Major.’
At school I remember my English teacher saying that he knew no one who had managed to get to the end of it. It does sound rubbish, doesn’t it? I’d have thought it was the duty of a great book to drag you along to the last page. But in a way, that’s good to know: if it’s famously hard going you have the perfect excuse not to bother with it. "
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Voici le passage sur Tolkien :
9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien
"There’s a brilliant scene in the much-underrated sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, when Sergeant Major Williams (Windsor Davies) snatches a book from Mr La-di-dah Gunner Graham and says:
‘What’s this you’re reading? Useless?’
‘Ulysses, Sergeant Major.’
At school I remember my English teacher saying that he knew no one who had managed to get to the end of it. It does sound rubbish, doesn’t it? I’d have thought it was the duty of a great book to drag you along to the last page. But in a way, that’s good to know: if it’s famously hard going you have the perfect excuse not to bother with it. "
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