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Maintenant, ne vous méprenez pas; cela ne veut pas dire que lorsque mes mains courent sur les pages avec excitation, j’apprécie fortement le livre. Beaucoup de livres m’avaient fait ça, soit l’effet vraiment par excitation, soit seulement par pur désespoir de le finir. j’ai eu e
Maintenant, ne vous méprenez pas; cela ne veut pas dire que lorsque mes mains courent sur les pages avec excitation, j’apprécie fortement le livre. Beaucoup de livres m’avaient fait ça, soit l’effet vraiment par excitation, soit seulement par pur désespoir de le finir. J’ai eu ces sentiments mitigés en lisant Zigzag. L’écriture de Somoza (ou le traducteur, j’ai lu la version anglaise) est exaltante et le début n’est qu’une façade pour ce qui semble être une lecture prometteuse et rapide, puis, comme sa prémisse, tout a commencé à me devenir grec.
J’ai préparé un résumé ci-dessous pour ceux d’entre vous qui sont trop paresseux ou qui trouvent le livre trop confus, mais veuillez l’aborder avec prudence. Je me trompe peut-être aussi.
AVERTISSEMENT : Spoilers à venir
Flash backward to 2005 before it all started. Elisa is a successful graduate student and she is about to take David Blanes’s summer course in Alighieri University. David Blanes (not the magician of course) is a renowned Physicist and also notorious in that school. Here, she first meets Ricardo Valente Sharpe, another genius, called as Mr. 0.04 because that’s the difference between her score and his score. Victor, who introduces him to her during conversations, reckons Ric as a slightly erratic, “dangerous” guy, whose objective is to beat everyone else. Many things happen at Elisa before the project started- bearded men make their appearance, a student with a deadline for a journalistic course starts to egg her with questions, Elisa receives increasingly bizarre pornographic spam emails, and Blanes shows off misogynistic tendencies when he refuses Elisa to take part of their conversations.
When she finally knew what the emails were, Elisa goes to the scene conjured by the emails and meets Ric there with the intention to tell her that because of their natural abilities, they were dangerous to the state and are thus monitored. He then takes her to a room where none of the operatives knew, talks her about it, which naturally makes Elisa raise an eyebrow. They then strike a deal about proving the so-called “sequoia theory” and whoever loses will do what the other tells them to do. Elisa agrees.
The symposium was to be the portion where they knew the winner, and of course, Elisa loses the deal (as what she thought it would be) but before she gives in, she tells him that whoever Blanes will be taking to Zurich (where CERN was and his research would supposedly be) will be the winner. At first, Elisa thought she’ll certainly lose because Ric got the part, not until she was phoned and told to pack up and go to Zurich as she and Ric were chosen.
Zurich though was just a front.
From Zurich, they were taken to New Nelson, a few miles away from Maldives. There, funded by the EAGLE Group, they were to partake in a series of experiments dealing with light. The premise here kicks in- time moves forward but the Past and the Present are moving simultaneously, thus there is a possibility that they can view the past as it happens.
Here, Elisa meets the others who take part in the project. They were split in different teams, with Elisa manning the calculations responsible in opening up the side millions of years ago.
David Blanes – Out to prove his Sequoia Theory, Blanes reveals his soft side to Elisa and is not really the jerk he was.
Sergio Marini – Blanes’s partner in the Sequoia Project
Reinhard Silberg – Another of their partner Physicists and also had a degree as a historian and philosopher.
Colin Craig – Worked with Ricardo Sharpe before and made the recommendation to put in Ric Valente in the project
Ricardo Valente Sharpe – The twisted genius, Ric takes part in making calculations to open up Jerusalem during the time of Jesus
Nadja Petrovic – Elisa’s albino friend and Clissot’s cohort, she is a topnotch palaeontologist.
Jacqueline Clissot – Frenchwoman who is Nadja’s mentor(?)
Rosalyn Reiter – (Honestly, I couldn’t make out what her role was. Ric’s plaything then?)
When the calculations were finally set in place all wait in anticipation and the awe that follows when the images were rendered takes them all. The project was a success as they speak, but what shocks them was the woman who was in Jerusalem. The images rendered shows a woman whose profile is eaten away and what shows are the disgusting bits. Silberg thinks it was leprosy, as it was a very common disease at that time.
While everyone was convinced that the project was a success, horrible accidents and mishaps soon beleaguered the island. Ric was missing, and Rosalyn was killed in the generator. As was agreed, they had to be evacuated from the island. But more deaths followed by then.
In a scope of a few years, the scientists involved in the project had gone missing. Craig was mysteriously ripped to shreds, Petrovic committed suicide, and Marini too was killed under mysterious circumstances. While EAGLE covered up the project and those involved were placed into therapy, thinking that they were just the psychological after-effects of seeing the past, Elisa begins to think otherwise. At this point, the tail wags the dog.
And when Marini became the latest casualty with Elisa fearing for her life, Victor comes in the process and helps them in any way they can. With stringent control from EAGLE, the ones remaining conduct a meeting on how to ultimately bring down the invisible, culprit down. Carter, the South African guard they had before, slips those who remained, back to New Nelson to settle the score once and for all.
Of course, by the time it ended, it all became a bloody mess. (hide spoiler)]
Je me serais préparé à donner au roman un 4. La prémisse était intéressante. Somoza produit un roman contenant des éléments du Dr Moreau, de la destination finale et du jour de la marmotte. Son écriture est frénétique, énervée, atmosphérique, sombre et améliore l’humeur. C’est, comme le dit le texte de présentation du livre de poche du marché de masse, pas pour les timides. C’est-à-dire jusqu’à ce que tout soit mis en pièces par la deuxième partie du roman en 2015.
Je suppose que je ne suis pas physicien. J’en ai rêvé une fois quand j’étais jeune, mais mon esprit était trop pauvre et mon éducation trop mauvaise pour même me convaincre de suivre le cours. J’aurais peut-être été plus heureux si j’avais eu toutes mes ressources et si j’en étais devenu un, mais j’admets que la vie sur moi a pris un chemin différent et m’a fait embrasser les arts plus que les sciences m’a convaincu que je serais tout aussi heureux parce qu’à ce moment-là, mon royaume est différent de cela.
Et je dis, sans trop de bruit, que le livre ne m’a donné que de la confusion.
La prémisse était réalisable mais elle ne m’a pas frappé. L’une des scènes du livre montrant la confusion de Carter dans tous ces phénomènes illustre le mieux ma frustration. C’était tout simplement hors de portée. Il y a eu un autre roman que j’ai lu cette année était All You Need Is Kill de Hiroshi Sakurazaka, qui traitait également du temps, mais cela a mieux fonctionné pour moi que celui-ci.
De plus, la fin est nulle.
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