Le Parrain

roman

mass market paperback, 509 pages

French language

Published Dec. 20, 1983 by Editions Robert Laffont.

ISBN:
978-2-266-01337-6
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OCLC Number:
461958241

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4 stars (8 reviews)

Aux yeux de ses voisins, Don Corleone est un patriar- che, un respectable pere de famille. Mais sa vraie famille est plus vaste ; c'est une des "familles" de la Mafia dont il est un des chefs Ies plus aimés, mais aussi Ies plus respectés, car il est raisonnable et juste. C'est Ie Parrain, interprété magistralement au cinéma par Marlon Brando. C'est å lui que s'adressent pour punir, mais aussi pour demander aide et assistance : JOHNNY FONTANE, Ie chanteur en train de perdre tout la fois sa femme et sa voix. SONNY CORLEONE, le fils ainé de Don Corleone, dont la réputation de Casanova n'a d'égale que celle de tueur habile. LUCY MANCINI, qui doit tant sacrifier pour devenir la maitresse de Sonny. MICHAEL CORLEONE, le fils cadet, qui croit pouvoir avoir sa vie Iui jusqu'au jour oü il découvre que Ies liens avec la Famille sont plus étroits …

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My second read-through and I very much enjoy this book. But what to rate it? I still can't decide if I enjoy the book, or I enjoy reading it and remembering the film. It feels well written. There's a few problems, the most minor being a character can't enter a scene without getting a page backstory, even with no dialogue, for instance. Terms are introduced at odd points in the book, certainly not at the beginning - maybe to show Michael's entering of the gangster world? But otherwise it oozes honour culture.

No, the weird bit is the sexism. I can maybe believe it's presenting the cast as sexist. But having the second female character's story being "she has a big vagina and meets a doctor who gets her corrective surgery"? Not particularly surprised that didn't make the film. Or nearly all the racism. As quite a few gangsters have …

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