恶童日记 (1986)

《恶童日记》（Le Grand Cahier）是一本法语小说，作者为克里斯多夫·雅歌塔，于1986年出版。

剧情

一位妇女带着孪生儿子投靠住在乡下母亲，她不识字、肮脏、吝啬、凶恶，两兄弟从不打架，只是学习生存法则、学习写作及学习残忍。他们住在一个遭受战争破坏的国家里，这是个既没有仁慈，也缺乏道德的地方。他们将每天发生的事情仔细记载在笔记本中。

改编电影

出品国：匈牙利

导演：亚诺斯‧萨兹（János Szász）

演员：安德拉斯‧杰曼特（András Gyémánt）、拉兹洛‧杰曼特（László Gyémánt）、欧索雅‧托特（Orsolya Tóth）、琵萝丝‧卡莫纳 （Piroska Molnár）、尤里基汤‧姆生（Ulrich Thomse）

参阅

Kristof, Agota (1986) Le Grand Cahier, Paris : Seuil, collection Points, 1995

Rolland, Annie, « Le visage étrangement inquiétant de la censure » in: Qui a peur de la littérature ado ?, Paris : éditions Thierry Magnier, collection Essais, 2008

The Notebook (French: Le Grand Cahier) is a novel by Agota Kristof published in 1986. It constitutes the first volume of the "The Notebook Trilogy", the second volume being The Proof and the trilogy ending with The Third Lie.

Summary

In the Big City, war rages. To escape it, a woman leaves her twin sons with their grandmother in the countryside. The grandmother, a spiteful, filthy, and miserly old woman, barely takes them in. Left to fend for themselves, the two children will learn to overcome the cold, hunger, and daily cruelties in a devastated land.

The "Big Notebook" is the one in which the two children strive to write down their discoveries and learnings with the greatest possible objectivity.

For example, "It is forbidden to write: 'The Little Town is beautiful', because the Little Town can be beautiful to us and ugly to someone else".

The two children, monstrous and fascinating, thus reject all morality and even all values and, despite themselves, construct their own.

This cold and factual account throws the reader headlong into the reality of war.

The Notebook and the "Abbeville affair"

Agota Kristof's The Notebook is also known for the controversy it generated, following what the press called the "Abbeville affair". On 23 November 2000, Police interrupted a class of 14 and 15 year olds in Abbeville and took their teacher to the police station, following a complaint from some parents who said the teacher was recommending pornographic reading material to their children, when in fact it was The Notebook.

The work was, however, on the curriculum of many high schools and considered a classic of contemporary literature. The matter was quickly closed, thanks in particular to the support shown to the teacher by numerous intellectuals and professors. For his part, the Minister of National Education, Jack Lang, had sent a letter of support to the principal of the school.

This novel therefore opens the debate on the censorship of "teen literature", and is very often taken as an example in this context.

Influences

The video game Mother 3 was influenced by the major themes of The Notebook . The game's main characters, Lucas and Claus, are named after the narrators of the book. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, himself a writer, compared the novel in glowing terms to an RPG.

Adaptations

Cinema

The novel was adapted by Hungarian director János Szász in his film of the same name released in 2013 (Hungarian title: A nagy füzet).

The film was selected to represent Hungary at the 86th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category and was one of nine films likely to be nominated.

Théâtre

The play was adapted and directed by Catherine Vidal, and was performed in Montréal at the Théâtre Prospero in 2009, at the Théâtre de Quat'Sous in 2010, and then in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre in 2012. Olivier Morin and Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon played the role of the twins.

Livre audio

Agota Kristof (2003). Le Grand Cahier (in French). Paris: éd. Livraphone. ISBN 978-2-87809-288-2.

Agota Kristof (2004). Le Grand Cahier (in French). Paris: éd. Livraphone.