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WINDOWS ON THE WORLD [Perfect Paperback]

FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER
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Voici un livre qui était attendu au tournant. Pas vraiment pour ses qualités littéraires, mais plutôt parce que Frédéric Beigbeder demeure un phénomène médiatique. Animateur de télévision, éditeur, chroniqueur qui ferait et déferait les réputations. Un phénomène qui avait annoncé son projet : puiser dans l'attentat du 11 septembre la matière à un roman. Windows on the World ne décevra personne. D'abord parce qu'il ne s'agit pas du énième témoignage sur la tragédie des tours jumelles. Mais plutôt de confessions intimes où l'auteur a choisi de retracer à la minute près le petit déjeuner au "Windows on the World" (d'où le titre du livre), restaurant du 107e étage de la tour Nord, entre un père divorcé et ses deux fils. Pour se mettre en situation, l'auteur est monté au restaurant du 56e étage de la tour Montparnasse, "Le Ciel de Paris". De là vont se mêler le destin tragique de cette famille américaine (inventé, réinventé) et l'itinéraire affectif, familial et culturel de l'auteur. Sa généalogie (Amos Wheeler, héros de la révolution américaine), sa grand-mère paternelle, le milieu bourgeois de son enfance, à côté de cet amas de tonnes fumantes se composant de chair humaine. Dans cet exercice de barres parallèles, fourmillant de formules efficaces ("Ma vie est une œuvre où je suis entré sans carton d'invitation"), sans jamais manquer d'émotion ni d'autodérision, il s'agit pour l'auteur "d'aller là où la télévision ne va pas. Montrer l'invisible, dire l'indicible". Et, justement, Beigbeder sait de quoi il parle. -- Céline Darner

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a range of reviews..., Aug 7 2010
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Jill Meyer (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD (Paperback)
French author Frederic Beigbeder's novel "Windows on the World" has certainly garnered quite a wide range of reviews as posted on AmazonUSA. I came to this novel relatively late; six years after its initial publication in French and subsequent translation to English for sale in the US and the UK.

I have never been able to read a fiction work about the attacks of September 11th, 2001. I start them - and most are very good - but can never seem to stick with the book after the first chapter or two. I realise I have missed many good books on the subject. Curiously, I have no trouble reading non-fiction on the subject. Beigbeder's book is the first fictional work I've been able to read through.

Frederic Beigbeder's novel is a minute-by-minute account - in two voices - of the time between the plane strike on the North Tower and its ultimate collapse. One voice is that of an American man breakfasting at Windows on the World with his two young sons. He states early on that he and his sons will not survive the day and, indeed as with all the diners and workers in the restaurant that day, they do not. The other voice is that of a French writer, who uses the name "Frederic Beigbeder", writing about a year or so after the attacks. The two voices are somewhat complicated but, in the end, echo each other. The difference is, of course, one voice is alive and the other has died with his sons in the wreckage.

The attacks nine years ago have been the subject of many works of both fiction and non-fiction. Non fictional work may be a little easier to quantify; the writer and the reader are dealing with the facts. Fiction often deals with the personal effects of the attacks. And when a writer is dealing with personal feelings all bets are off on how the work will be accepted by the reader. Looking at the range of reviews on this book prove this.

I felt the book was well-written and I enjoyed it about as much as it is possible for ME to enjoy a book about 9/11. It's one of those subjects, like the Holocaust, which are REALLY not "feel good" topics. Begbeider writes a good and interesting story about that terrible day. I really cannot recommend it or not recommend it. It's a tough book written well on a very tough subject.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Entre la réalité ignorée et l'irréalité qu'on veut oublier., Nov 28 2003
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Frederic Bettan (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD (Perfect Paperback)
Un bel acte de trapèze entre la vie décomposée de l'auteur et la décomposition de l'espoir des prisoniers de Windows of the world ( restaurant au World trade center ) le 11 septembre 2001. direct et sans détour, Frédéric capte bien l'emotion du moment comme s'il y était.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interessant, Dec 26 2003
By S. Vohra "coolsaru" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Windows on the World (in French) (Paperback)
Windows on the World a 2 facettes, la 1ere la description minute par minute d'une famille se trouvant une des tours le 11 sept 2001, et d'un autre cote les reflexions et pensees de l'auteur qui pour la plupart du temps rentre dans une analyse de lui-meme et de sa vie ... et de ses problemes...
Malgre ce cote, j'ai trouve interessant de lire ce livre car il donne ouverture a des sujets actuels

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5.0 out of 5 stars Entre la réalité ignorée et l'irréalité qu'on veut oublier., Nov 28 2003
By Frederic Bettan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD (Perfect Paperback)
Un bel acte de trapèze entre la vie décomposée de l'auteur et la décomposition de l'espoir des prisoniers de Windows of the world ( restaurant au World trade center ) le 11 septembre 2001. direct et sans détour, Frédéric capte bien l'emotion du moment comme s'il y était.
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