{"id":65,"date":"2007-01-30T01:04:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T00:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-02-02T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T15:07:33","slug":"la-tour-de-babylone-de-ted-chiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"La tour de Babylone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0La tour de Babylone\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\npar Ted Chiang<br \/>\n<em>(Deno\u00c3\u00abl, Paris, 2006).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image70\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/ted_chiang_150.jpg\" alt=\"ted_chiang_150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Je me suis m\u00c3\u00a9fi\u00c3\u00a9 des superlatifs crispants lus et entendus au sujet de Ted Chiang, tout en \u00c3\u00a9tant intrigu\u00c3\u00a9 par son profil de \u00ab\u00a0jeune informaticien am\u00c3\u00a9ricain d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122origine chinoise\u00a0\u00bb. <!--more--><br \/>\nPuis j&rsquo;ai finalement (et heureusement) achet\u00c3\u00a9 son bouquin dans un moment de faiblesse comme je les aime&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Probablement harass\u00c3\u00a9 par les divagations du tr\u00c3\u00a8s irr\u00c3\u00a9gulier Maurice G. Dantec, dont \u00ab\u00a0Babylon Babies\u00a0\u00bb prenait les poussi\u00c3\u00a8res sur ma table de nuit, j&rsquo;avais besoin de changer d&rsquo;air. Manque de bol : \u00ab\u00a0Babylon Babies\u00a0\u00bb\/\u00a0\u00bbLa tour de Babylone\u00a0\u00bb, co\u00c3\u00afncidence un peu d\u00c3\u00a9courageante.<\/p>\n<p>Mais !! Parmi les huit nouvelles tr\u00c3\u00a8s r\u00c3\u00a9ussies qui composent ce recueil, \u00ab\u00a0Comprends\u00a0\u00bb (la deuxi\u00c3\u00a8me du livre) est \u00c3\u00a9poustouflante, parfaite \u00c3\u00a0 mon go\u00c3\u00bbt, et m&rsquo;a suffi \u00c3\u00a0 ne pas regretter cette d\u00c3\u00a9pense. <\/p>\n<p>Le narrateur d\u00c3\u00a9crit avec une pr\u00c3\u00a9cision de plus en plus vertigineuse le d\u00c3\u00a9veloppement de son intelligence, suite \u00c3\u00a0 un traitement \u00c3\u00a0 l&rsquo; \u00ab\u00a0hormone K\u00a0\u00bb. Un r\u00c3\u00a9cit hallucin\u00c3\u00a9, r\u00c3\u00a9aliste, tr\u00c3\u00a8s document\u00c3\u00a9 et quasi p\u00c3\u00a9dagogique gr\u00c3\u00a2ce \u00c3\u00a0 ses descriptions passionantes sur fond de sciences cognitives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Et avant tout, un grand plaisir !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0La tour de Babylone\u00a0\u00bb par Ted Chiang (Deno\u00c3\u00abl, Paris, 2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}