Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Dan Dixon, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

It reads as if Flanagan has spent the book winding up, gathering the strength to find an angle of entry into that formative trauma. With propulsive confidence, he details the…

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