Jar city - BookWyrm francophone

Langue : English

Publié 8 octobre 2005

ISBN :: 978-0-312-34070-4

(1 critique)

Jar City, also known as Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin, "The Bog") ( listen ), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. It was the first in the Detective Erlendur series to be translated into English (in 2004). In the UK, the title was changed to Tainted Blood when the paperback edition was released.The novel is at one level a fierce critique of the gene-gathering work of deCODE genetics:

far from reinforcing the kind of myths of Icelandic national identity promoted by eugenicists earlier in the twentieth century and re-invoked by the publicity machine around DeCODE, Indriđason’s novel uses the figure of the defective gene not only to expose and trouble national mythologies of social and familial cohesion and continuity but to ask some fundamental questions about the meaning of innocence and guilt, justice and punishment in the face of the identification of …

Jar City, also known as Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin, "The Bog") ( listen ), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. It was the first in the Detective Erlendur series to be translated into English (in 2004). In the UK, the title was changed to Tainted Blood when the paperback edition was released.The novel is at one level a fierce critique of the gene-gathering work of deCODE genetics:

far from reinforcing the kind of myths of Icelandic national identity promoted by eugenicists earlier in the twentieth century and re-invoked by the publicity machine around DeCODE, Indriđason’s novel uses the figure of the defective gene not only to expose and trouble national mythologies of social and familial cohesion and continuity but to ask some fundamental questions about the meaning of innocence and guilt, justice and punishment in the face of the identification of genes that bear the secret not of life but of death.

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airdog a publié une critique de Jar city par Arnaldur Indriðason

Good but not earth shattering

3 étoiles

Reading this work after 1991 makes me realise again how relative everything is. Had I read this one after a bad book I might very well had given it 3 stars but after reading a very good book this one pales in comparison. As said somewhat well written, but the writing gets lost in so many details about the rooms, the apartments and personal lives that seem to have no relationship to the story and don't add anything the result being that it takes away much more than it adds.