Roald Dahl Gallimard Jeunesse
Collection Folio Junior
Translated from English by Janine Hedgehog
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Released in November 2008 218 pages
6.70 EUR
Junior Novel From 10 years
Topics: Childhood, Nonsense, Humor, Autobiography
Back Cover: What happens when you catch a ratite? And when we simulate an attack of appendicitis? Have you ever smoked tobacco goat? You ever been wearing a costume that makes you look like a undertaker to go to school? Through the story of his adventures, discover a young Roald Dahl which is strikingly similar to the heroes of his books! Roald Dahl fondly remembers his childhood adventures and rich with emotion and humor to tell inimitable.
About the author: Roald Dahl, a Norwegian, was born in Wales in 1916. Despite the untimely death of his father and bad memories Residential, he had a happy childhood and easy. At seventeen years, dreaming of adventure, he moved to Newfoundland, then became a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Encouraged by the author CS Forrester, he began writing short stories for adults. It is in 196 1 that starts in youth literature with James and the Giant Peach, imagined for his five children, whom he tells a new story every night. He knows his first big success with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and, therefore, will not cease until his death in 1990, signing books that make you want to read million children. In his eyes, the young readership is the most demanding public. He also explained: "I try to write stories that grab the throat, stories that we can not let go. For if a child learns very early to love books, he has a huge advantage in life. "He says this requires" have p booked two fundamental characteristics of his eight years: the curiosity and imagination. " In 2005, Great Britain honored him by opening The Roald Dahl Museum and by creating a "day Roald Dahl" September 13, the day of his birth.
It with humor and tenderness that Roald Dahl recounts his childhood memories in this autobiographical novel tells the author but defends himself:
"An autobiography is a book that we write to tell his own life and beyond, in general, any kind of tedious details. This book is not an autobiography. The idea I would never write such a book. Moreover, during all my younger years in school and shortly after, my life has been marred by incidents that I have never forgotten. None are very important, but each they gave me a strong impression that I never got it off my mind. Each of them, even after a lapse of e time of fifty and even sixty years, has remained etched in my memory. I did not have to seek them out. It was enough to touch the top layer of my consciousness for them before finding them in writing. Some were funny. Some painful . Some unpleasant. For this reason, I suppose, that I remember them all so as acute. All are true. "
With humility and modesty , Roald Dahl recounts his early years marked by family memories, medical accidents, do stupid things after school ... All the heroes of Roald Dahl's children are taking their revenge on adults and through Me, Boy we can better understand why the adult is also frowned upon. It takes the form of a witch, a doctor, dentist, a school principal or even a supervisor, Roald Dahl gets his imagination in his memories of a little boy terrified by the evil adults. He tells us as nt he was operated vegetations without anesthesia, and how he received the caning and off again, holding her buttocks with both hands! His fondest memories are of course those spent with his mother, his sisters and his grandparents in Norway. It tells the dramatic moments experienced by a family with a moving simplicity . Me, Boy is the book to be read to learn about this extraordinary author who has worked for so many children's literature. It is close. We laugh at his stupidity and his fun adventures. We feel compassion for the hardships he has faced so young. Roald Dahl knows how to create a complicity with his readers by entrusting us with his most intimate memories and most expensive. So with emotion that one emerges from this reading , still intact with this desire to find the mischievous hero of an author that you continue to forward e for generations .
