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Original Title:	Peste & Choléra
ISBN:	2021077209 (ISBN13: 9782021077209)
Edition Language:	French URL http://www.seuil.com/livre-9782021077209.htm
Literary Awards:	Prix Femina (2012), Prix du roman Fnac (2012), Prix des prix littéraires (2012)

Peste & Choléra

Patrick Deville

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 892 Users | 128 Reviews

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Quand Louis Pasteur expérimente avec succès le vaccin contre la rage, il ouvre de nouvelles et
formidables perspectives à la biologie et à la médecine. Il chargera plus tard ses élèves ou disciples de prolonger ses recherches à travers le monde. Les jeunes pasteuriens partent pour de longs périples.
Parmi eux, Alexandre Yersin, d’origine suisse (il est né à Morges en 1863), naturalisé Français pour les besoins de la science, qui se forme sur le tas et part très vite en Indochine, où il passera le plus clair de sa vie, loin des brouhahas parisiens et des fracas guerriers. Il multiplie là-bas les observations épidémiologiques mais aussi bien géographiques, astronomiques ou météorologiques. C’est que ces jeunes gens sont curieux de tout, Yersin en particulier.
Ami du politicien Doumer, Yersin se trouve à l’origine de la ville de Dalat, dans l’actuel Vietnam, puis il s’installe à Nha Trang pour y mener passionnément ses multiples activités de chercheur. Elevage bovin, culture de l’hévéa, des orchidées, de la quinine : il pourrait faire fortune mais tout va au financement des recherches et de l’Institut Pasteur créé entre-temps. La science l’absorbe, il n’aura ni femme ni enfant. Parfois il revient en Europe, mais c’est le plus souvent de loin, à la radio ou par les journaux, qu’il reçoit l’écho des conflits mondiaux et de leurs atrocités. Il meurt en 1943, conscient mais pas tout à fait amer que son nom n’aura pas la même gloire posthume que son maître, Louis Pasteur, et demeurera essentiellement attaché à la découverte du bacille de la peste à Hong-Kong en 1894.
C’est cette formidable aventure scientifique et humaine que raconte Deville en croisant les périodes et les personnages autour de la figure de Yersin.

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Title	:	Peste & Choléra
Author	:	Patrick Deville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2012 by Seuil (Fiction & Cie) (first published 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. France

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Ratings: 3.71 From 892 Users | 128 Reviews

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Goodreads did not find the English version of this book, but I assure you it exists. I read it as a paperback only on an outward bound flight to the USA and finished it only on the return home, hence the long reading period. This is a lovely book that tells of the life of Alexandre Yersin, the discoverer of the cause of plague although he did not connect it with fleas. The bacillus is named after him as yersina pestis. But if you expect a straight forward biography, it is not. It is purely a

An infectious read! This is not just a book about the near-forgotten scientist who discovered the plague bacillus, it's about an era of exploration, discovery and incredible courage. Made me think a lot about how our successors will view the Noughties and the next few decades.

Plague & Cholera (Peste & Cholera) by French novelist Patrick Deville brilliantly describes Alexandre Yersins life. He was one of Louis Pasteurs disciples who discovered in 1894 the plague bacillus. Even if it was in Hong Kong that Yersin isolated the bacillus which bears his name in Latin (Yersinia pestis), it is in French Indochina that he spent most of his time. He opened branches of the Pasteur Institute, lived in Nha Trangs bay, opened land roads to Cambodia, launched several

The subject matter of Patrick Devilles prize-winning book Plague and Cholera is so very interesting and his journey through life so fascinating that it almost doesnt matter if this is a good novel or not. Many dont think it is, and I can see why. Apart from having an omniscient narrator who occasionally inserts himself into the narrative, the book is little more than a fictionalised biography, and very little fictionalised at that. The style is flat and unemotional, and we get few insights into

Felt like I needed to know the life of being accounted to know better what they were doing with it. Fine but not sure I understand how it sold so many copies

I've been trying to get through this book for the past two months, and it hasn't made it easy. It is very slow moving, unnecessarily wordy, and very difficult to engage with. People who are more fond of complex and philosophical 'literary fiction' than I am might enjoy this, but it's not my genre and I found it all a bit too hard. By all means, give it a go if you feel like reading something a bit challenging and thought-provoking, though!

Unique! Great story!!