Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Eleanor « Peggy » Atwood, née le 18 novembre 1939 à Ottawa, Ontario, est une romancière, poétesse et critique littéraire canadienne. Elle est l'un des écrivains canadiens les plus connus, en particulier pour son roman The Handmaid's Tale, publié en français en 1987, sous le titre La Servante écarlate et adapté au cinéma et en série en 2017.

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
The Blind Assassin
“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”
Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing
Source: Surfacing
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin (2000) first lines
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
Margaret Atwood livre MaddAddam
Source: MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood livre The Edible Woman
Source: The Edible Woman
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing
Lady Oracle (1976)
Source: Surfacing
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”
Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing
Source: Surfacing
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
Margaret Atwood livre Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale