""Dresde, 1982. Les habitants d'un quartier résidentiel cossu se sont depuis longtemps accommodés de leurs conditions de vie. Toutefois, les membres de cette bourgeoisie est-allemande, véritable anachronisme en RDA, s'isolent parfois pour tourner le dos à la grisaille quotidienne. À commencer par Meno, correcteur pour une maison d'édition, qui se doit de composer avec la censure ; mais aussi son beau-frère, chirurgien renommé qui mène une double vie et qui, avec sa femme, aveugle et aimante, a élevé son fils, éternel incompris qui incarne pourtant l'Homme Nouveau, dans le respect des plus belles valeurs - vie familiale harmonieuse, amour de la culture, pratique de la musique, travail acharné. Mais, cette peinture idyllique ne tarde pas à se lézarder et bientôt, c'est le pays tout entier qui tremble... Uwe Tellkamp nous plonge dans l'ambiance de la RDA à travers le prisme d'une époque oubliée, réplique de l'Allemagne cultivée de la fin du XIXe siècle, bulle délicieusement désuète dans ce pays productiviste et matérialiste. Mais pour décrire cette Allemagne de l'Est agonisante, jamais il n'adopte le ton de la dénonciation : il préfère nous guider dans les méandres et les secrets de ce monde qui nous a d'abord paru si lisse et si parfait, et qui s'avère finalement être un des rouages du système..." [Source : 4e de couv.]."
"Dresde, años ochenta: los habitantes de la Torre, un barrio residencial, parecen vivir fuera del tiempo y buscan escapar a la decadencia del sistema socialista dedicándose a la música, a la poesía y a la pintura. Observan con resignación e ironía el derrumbe de la República Democrática Alemana. Anne y Richard Hoffmann viven allí junto a sus dos hijos, Christian y Robert. Richard es un cirujano de la Academia que tiene una relación extraconyugal y por este motivo es chantajeado por la Stasi y obligado a espiar a sus colegas. Christian, el hijo mayor, quiere ser un médico famoso, pero, para obtener una plaza de estudiante, antes tiene que prestar servicio 'voluntario' en el Ejército Nacional Popular. Su tío, Meno Rohde, es redactor en una importante editorial y ha ascendido hasta el barrio donde vive la nomenklatura. Silencioso y gran observador, Meno actúa como intermediario entre el mundo del régimen y el nostálgicamente burgués de la Torre, relatando en las páginas de su diario las contradicciones que existen en ambos. La novela, galardonada con el Deutscher Buchpreis, ha evocado Los Buddenbrook de Thomas Mann."
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