Andreï Makine, La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme [The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme]

Julie Hansen (Uppsala University)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2003

Places

France (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Andreï Makine’s novel La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme (2003) is the third part of his Franco-Russian trilogy. Like the preceding novels Le testament français (1995) and Requiem pour l’Est (2000), this novel deals with the themes of memory and narrative against the backdrop of Soviet history. The English translations of the trilogy are titled, respectively, Dreams of My Russian Summers (1997), Requiem for the East/Requiem for a Lost Empire (2001) and The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme (2005).

The unnamed first-person narrator of La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme grows up in a Soviet orphanage for children of “enemies of the People” in the 1960s. On weekend leaves, h…

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Citation: Hansen, Julie. "La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 March 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32151, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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