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Road Through the Wall
  
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Road Through the Wall (Paperback)

de Shirley Jackson (Author)
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Shirley Jackson's unforgettable first novel, Jui 15 2006
Par Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Although The Road Through the Wall was her first published novel, it is vintage Shirley Jackson. No one ever viewed and/or described human beings in the way Jackson did. Not surprisingly, this novel is terribly maudlin and disturbing. It is also very complex, and I'm not sure I would perfectly understand it had I read it over and over again. There are no heroes in these pages and only one innocent character. The premise of the story is fairly simple: Jackson paints a portrait of a well-to-do middle class neighborhood, shining her blinding light of truth on everyone. The portrait is not a pretty one. A wall separates the community from the well-to-do section of town, a section most of the men and women hope to eventually move to; in the meantime, they are terribly snobbish to those around them--quietly and secretly or brazenly and openly depending on how poor or ill-bred the inferior citizens are seen to be. Eventually, a section of the wall is removed in order to make way for a new road, a road that will expose their isolated community to the world and basically ruin their neighborhood, community, and lives. Well before the road is built, terrible tragedy does indeed strike at the heart of the community. I was quite shocked by the turn of events toward the end.

Some of Jackson's plot points really make little sense to me. While it often seems that Jackson intends to introduce such confusing elements into her fiction, I find it very likely that I am just not understanding the immense subtleties and hidden clues of a masterful writer. This novel is especially hard to comprehend. The cast of characters is quite large, consisting of a number of families. Jackson constantly moves back and forth between the men, women, and children, which makes it hard to really "know" each character. The task of keeping track of who is who is made even more difficult by the fact that many of the girls' names all start with H and that two of the boys have the same initials. There came a point when I just had to stop flipping back through the story trying to exactly remember each character in turn. Perhaps it was a deliberate tactic by Jackson to indicate that all of the characters are basically the same. One family surprisingly moves away right in the middle of the book, much to my surprise, and the family that moves into their rental home seems far less important that the book's back cover led me to expect. The reader should take nothing for granted when reading Shirley Jackson.

All in all, this is a wonderful if idiosyncratic read. The plot is amazingly complex for an author's first published novel. I wish I could talk about the ending, if for no other reason than to pose the questions I have about it. Once you permit yourself to enter Shirley Jackson mode, you may well be lured into a level of comfort, expecting the novel to simply end without any climax or conclusion. I can pretty much assure you that the conclusion is one you will not soon forget.
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