Wicked

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Gregory Maguire: Wicked (2008)

English language

Published April 16, 2008

ISBN:
978-1-4351-1030-4
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written by Gregory Maguire with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch (published in September 2005), A Lion Among Men (published in October 2008), and Out of Oz (published in November 2011). In 2003, it was adapted as the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Wicked. The musical is in the process of being adapted into a feature film. Wicked is a revisionist exploration of the characters and setting of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, its sequels, and the 1939 film adaption. It is presented as a biography of the Wicked Witch of the West, here given the name "Elphaba." The book follows Elphaba from her birth as the result of a …

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The dark side of Oz

4 stars

I really enjoyed this novel. It’s so different from the movie, but that’s part of what made it so interesting. The darkness of Oz and the Wizard permeated the story, and I liked getting to know the Wicked Witch of the West as a sympathetic quasi-freedom fighter.

The writing can get almost cloying at times, but that didn’t really dampen my enjoyment of the book.

Wicked

3 stars

Venant de voir la musical j'avais absolument envie de découvrir le roman qui lui a donné naissance (et qui prenait la poussière sur mon étagère depuis quelques années ahem).

Je savais que Wicked était beaucoup plus sombre que Le Magicien d'Oz et que la musical restait elle aussi "grand public". J'avoue que je ne m'attendais pas à autant de noirceur. Le règne du magicien est une représentation parfaite d'un régime fasciste où le racisme se fait de plus en plus présent, accepté peu à peu par tout le monde sans broncher (pour ne pas trop "déranger"). Le livre démontre aussi les ravages de l'époque car même dans les contrées où le fascisme ne règne pas il montre son influence sur les mentalités et la façon dont il contamine et fait germer ses préjugés de manière insidieuse.

Elphaba est beaucoup plus torturée et incertaine, prise dans de grandes considérations ontologiques sur …

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