Father And Son Penises

Lauren Oliver

Hachette Jeunesse
Collection Black Moon
Translated from English (USA) by Alice Delarbre
Released in January 2011
452 pages 18 euros


Roman teens aged 13
Topics: Society, Love, Dystopia / Anticipation



Back Cover: Lena lives in a world where love is considered the greatest of evils. A world where all adults 18 years undergoing brain surgery to be cured. A few months of experience in turn "Procedure," Lena is an unexpected encounter ... Gradually she discovers love and understand, like her mother before her, there is no greater freedom than let him speak his feelings. Even if it means leaving his convictions ... "They claim that healing of love we will be happy and safe from harm forever. I have always believed. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now I'd love to be contaminated by even just a second rather than live a hundred years stifled by this lie. "
About the author: holds a degree in philosophy and literature at the University of Chicago, Lauren Oliver then trained in the arts at the University of New York. She briefly worked as an editorial assistant at a New York publisher, before devoting himself entirely to writing.


Magdalena is awaiting his operation "Protocol" , partial lobotomy brain performed at age 18, to prevent young people falling in love. Nervous, worried she refuses to follow the same plight as his mother died because of illness. Dead because it was contaminated. The "amor Deliria nervosa" is the worst scourge of society. Drastic measures were taken by the Government and are recorded in the Book of Three S: Safety, Health, Satisfaction . A society in which security prevails and where people are controlled. If you found "love" you are immediately shut because the disease is contagious. Love is a Disease? is what Lena is constantly thinking. From an early age, many examples dramatic him confirm the danger it. There was a war, then the Government for the good of all, introduced the legislation. Lena is eager. She wants to undergo surgery as soon as possible and finally be relieved of this evil. She does not want to be a invalid and be rejected or worse, his company locked in a cell. Yet she thinks the words of his mother "I love you. Remember. They can not take that away from us" as a powerful leitmotif that his thoughts and twist it puts doubt ... or rather hope.

A heroine who was born and lived in a world where the rules are fixed and inviolable. A world view to say where things seem to be acquired and should not be challenged. It is not known if this world is truth or falsehood. What is known is that it works on the authority and a totalitarian regime. Delirium in , the company is predetermined. Nobody made a choice, it undergoes Protocol and everyone is happy . It's well-being and life satisfaction with a partner chosen by scientists. Is infallible. After the operation, the company tells you with whom you live, how much you'll have children and what job you do. There is no room for feelings, and love is chaos. Enemy of happiness, this verb is the great scourge of the three S. The company, cons-modern utopia is cool and totally dehumanized . We must protect themselves against what hurts the most: the feelings, being in love because when you are vulnerable.

Lauren Oliver has managed quite a coup plot by taking something as banal and everyday as love. What she wrote is perfectly plausible. Love hurts and how it establishes a precise and rigorous list of symptoms is troubling. Who has never suffered for love? Love, a disease? YES, YES. It is strong and at the same time a simply breathtaking. One wonders why this idea has not been described before. And the plot works. It plunges the reader into questioning this due to extracts before each chapter that distill powerfully invented a universe with gusto. Rhymes, excerpts from scientific manuals, excerpts of settlement, biblical excerpts and history book ... all these details we can imagine perfection that society. Reading this reminded me of two other exciting youth novels Declaration and Uglies that different angles we also put in the same narrative pattern. A heroine teenager will open their eyes to the lie in which she has always lived and thanks to a young man who is part of the opponent that is the camp of the rebels, the oppressed, but not the weakest.

Emotions, actions, twists and reflection make this novel a favorite. It is both a young adult novel, a bildungsroman, and a philosophical novel. To live life and enjoy its effects must be lowered her defenses and accept that love is the source of pain, physical and psychological. Must be carried away by thoughts of Lena with her and discover the hidden defects of such a society destructive of fundamental freedoms human being. Freedom to love, to express themselves and choose. Lena will choose. Delirium is certainly not a novel for working girls in need of romance. It's not! Is much stronger, much deeper and passages of this book echo our experiences, our feelings. Yes, love makes us vulnerable, so it has side effects like butterflies in my stomach and heart aches but love is good and necessary. Excited delirium , I have only one eager to read "The last day of my life" (due April 6, 2011) because I tell you, the end taped and moved me.

"Mommy, Mommy, help me to return home,
I'm lost in the woods without a companion,
I met a werewolf, ugly beast bearded
He showed the fangs to devour me raw.

Mommy, Mommy, help me find the house
I'm lost in the woods without a companion,
I was attacked by a vampire, an old rascal,
He showed fangs to plant in my neck.

Mom, Mom, bordering me,
I'm half dead, I will not go, I
encountered an invalid, and it gets me, the smooth talker,
He showed his smile, and jumped on my heart. "
" The lost child, "Rhymes and Folk Tales, compiled by Cory Levinson

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