Des milliards de tapis de cheveux

314 pages

French language

Published April 16, 1999

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978-2-84172-111-5
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The Carpet Makers (German original title: Die Haarteppichknüpfer), also published under the title The Hair Carpet Weavers, is a science fiction novel by German writer Andreas Eschbach, originally published in 1995. The first English language edition, released in 2005 by Tor Books, features a foreword by Orson Scott Card. The book is set on a planet whose sole industry is weaving elaborate rugs. The carpets are made of human hair and require a lifetime of work to complete. The book is a series of inter-related stories that give increasingly more detail on the nature and purpose of the rugs and why the universe has tens of thousands of planets solely devoted to making such a thing, each thinking they are the only one. There is a prequel to The Carpet Makers titled Quest (2001), which has not been translated into English so far.

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Review of 'The Carpet Makers' on 'Storygraph'

This author's style is different than what I'm used to. There is no one single character to latch onto in the story. Instead this has many smaller stories with each chapter that when woven together(pun intended) create a much larger story. This is a story of change, and of the human response to it. It is also a story of revenge, and the lengths too which it can drive humanity. Also, this has an old school science fiction feel to it.

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Ce roman mosaïque(1) nous parle de gens qui tissent des tapis avec des cheveux, pour les envoyer à l’empereur de l’univers, censément pour qu’il en décore son palais.
Ceci n’est que le point de départ, qui va nous faire découvrir une réalité bien plus vaste et sordide que tout ce qu’on aurait pu imaginer. J’ai un avis des plus mitigés sur ce roman, voire même franchement négatif. Pourquoi ? Tout simplement parce que je n’ai jamais rien lu d’aussi déprimant que cette accumulation de désillusions, d’espoirs brisés, d’abattement et de fatalisme. En effet, on ne trouve dans tout le roman aucun intervenant qui ne soit content de sa vie, aucun qui puisse se satisfaire de ce que la vie lui offre, et même aucun qui ait une raison d’espérer que la vie puisse lui offrir mieux un jour. Et ça, c’est déja bien déprimant. Quand en plus chacune des nouvelles …