Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behavior more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq. Both these historical figures are portrayed in ways that draw on their actual lives, but which depart from the facts in order to explore the novel's central theme – the relationship between creativity and self-destruction.
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| - Le Blues de Buddy Bolden (titre original : Coming through Slaughter) est un roman de Michael Ondaatje paru aux éditions Norton (New York) et Anansi (Toronto) en 1976, traduit en français (par Robert Paquin) aux éditions Boréale (Montréal) en 1987 puis en format poche aux éditions du Seuil en 1991 sous le titre Le Blues de Buddy Bolden. Il a été récompensé du prix du premier roman (en). First Novel Award Books in Canada en 1976, prix saluant les meilleures œuvres littéraires publiées par un citoyen canadien chaque année. (fr)
- Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behavior more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq. Both these historical figures are portrayed in ways that draw on their actual lives, but which depart from the facts in order to explore the novel's central theme – the relationship between creativity and self-destruction. (en)
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| - Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behavior more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq. Both these historical figures are portrayed in ways that draw on their actual lives, but which depart from the facts in order to explore the novel's central theme – the relationship between creativity and self-destruction. The novel draws on the style of jazz, being structured in a fragmented, and "syncopated" form, with episodes extending in elongated "riffs" before suddenly lurching unpredictably into an apparently unrelated scene. The structure also conveys Bolden's own wild, fragmenting personality, as his schizophrenia takes hold. Bolden's manic, extroverted but self-harming behavior is set against the introverted figure of Bellocq, who expresses his own frustrated desires in his intimate erotic photographs, but then compulsively violates them with scratches. In 2006, Variety reported that Ben Ross was adapting Coming Through Slaughter for the screen. (en)
- Le Blues de Buddy Bolden (titre original : Coming through Slaughter) est un roman de Michael Ondaatje paru aux éditions Norton (New York) et Anansi (Toronto) en 1976, traduit en français (par Robert Paquin) aux éditions Boréale (Montréal) en 1987 puis en format poche aux éditions du Seuil en 1991 sous le titre Le Blues de Buddy Bolden. Il a été récompensé du prix du premier roman (en). First Novel Award Books in Canada en 1976, prix saluant les meilleures œuvres littéraires publiées par un citoyen canadien chaque année. (fr)
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