Resumo de The Gannet - Anne Hébert

Anne Hébert, the gannet, Threshold, 1982, (Collection Points, Romance complete text), 249p. This book was adapted under the same title for the cinema by Yves Simoneau, in 1986. The history of Gannet is summarized in a few words. But would not be to return justice to Anne Hébert only to do it. Because one cannot read this novel without holding account of the at the same time simple and poetic writing of Anne Hébert; without holding account of the structure of the novel where one counts six times to us the same history. Six times of the different ends which are complementary. Five times from the different points of view which comb, like as many small keys of color, the complete table of the history, the life with Griffin Creek and the characters. 1982. The reverend Nicolas Jones lives with the presbytery with his two twin maidservants in the village isolated from Griffin Creek, wedged between mountain and salted, broad river like a sea. For the two hundred years of the village, it made build an appendix very new with the presbytery: the "Gallery with the ancestors", small part where it paints on a side, in a naive style, the line of the male ancestors almost all undifferentiated. Other side, it leaves the care with the binoculars to represent the female ancestors. And they differentiate the portraits. Among all the ancestors, they represent only the three protagonists of a drama which has occurred in 1936: Nora, Olivia, Irene. They use of a profusion of decorations but they write especially. In bottom, on the plinths, like two stringcourses: summer 1936; summers attached ones to the others and years as a succession of figures which are repeated until almost losing their direction. And the drawing and, especially, the two black stringcourses, painted by the binoculars, disturb the reverend. He remembers, a little in spite of him, of this summer 1936. 1936. Travel in time when one will be pilot weight of the puritanism at all and sundry and the deaf rages living each one. Stevens Brown, returns in Griffin Creek after five years of absence. It will upset forever the life of the small village. Initially the life of Maureen, his/her cousin, widow, at whom it engages for the summer and in the barn of which it sleeps but in the great bed of which it sleeps. Then, almost as in a play, that of his/her two other cousins teenagers, Nora and Olivia, both cousins also but almost s?urs. Then Percival, brother of Stevens, the idiot, who speaks only confusedly and only manages to mix with the wind, in an interminable cry and insane races, its rare joys, its fears, its pain and its loneliness. And there is the wind. This wind which penetrates everywhere, which raises the dresses of the girls or the adhesives against their thighs, letting guess what they do not want to show. This wind which raises the sea, inflates its waves and the enrage. This wind which never ceases but to be replaced by a thick fog where foghorns of the boats passing to broad, launch their calls melancholic persons. And there is the sea. This sea, sometimes present, sometimes goes away, with the liking of the tides. This cold sea where bathe at dawn Nora, Olivia and Felicity their grandmother. This sea mirror which, most of the time, reflects passions agitating Griffin Creek. This sea, rocked most of the time by the long swell which dies gently on the strike, sometimes slack like widespread oil; this sometimes agitated sea, howling, being crushed of all its weight against the rocks, which is linked with the rain to transform Griffin Creek into island and its houses in more or less navigable boats with the air. And passed them, always unavowed and unavowable. Contained and kill as only the puritans could do it. The passions, exacerbated by the wind, the sea, the sun, youth, the odor of iodine and hot ground, the hardness of the life. Passions too selected which explode, burst, wound, make insane, or kill. And the drama. August 31, Stevens bids its farewell with Maureen. The next morning, it will have already set out again for Florida. This same evening, Nora and Olivia go to Maureen, pass an end of taken care and set out again. On the road, they meet Stevens. All the three, they go down on the strike, admire the reflection of the moon on water slack. And the drama occurs. Nora, wounded by Stevens, a few days earlier, in its young pride of woman, howls, the insult and laughs, hysterical. Stevens believes to cherish the neck to him. Not. It tightens too extremely and Nora collapses with its feet. Olivia will flee, all the summer it had the desire of Olivia. It catches up with it, the violate, kills it too. It puts the two corpses in its launch, the light ones and absorbed in the moonbeam which is stretched on the sea. The investigation. The discovery of the corpse of Nora. Consents of Stevens. 1982. Stevens prepares its suicide. It leaves a letter. Where it tells the events of 1936; known as its remorses, its obsessions and its kindnesses; known as also why it was never condemned.

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