“But, Joanna ? You defy me with the Pope !”

Le défi de Joanna au patriarcat médiéval, ou l’histoire de gens comme Haroun, font vivre tout un monde complexe et fascinant et en plus Whitaker a un vrai sens de la caractérisation et du drame.

Mais le problème c’est aussi qu’il est raciste. 

Il raconte alors une guerre atroce, et l’histoire de peuples qui souffrent et de dirigeants blasés. Il raconte aussi des amours brisés ou impossibles.

Mais le récit nuancé et touchant qu’il tente est carrément limité par ses clichés et ses monstres humains et il en devient sacrément indigent ..

“But, Joanna ? You defy me with the Pope !”

Joanna's challenge to the medieval patriarchy, or the story of people like Haroun, brings to life a complex and fascinating world and, moreover, Whitaker has a real sense of characterization and drama.

But the problem is also that he is racist.

He then tells of a terrible war, and the story of suffering peoples and jaded leaders. He also talks about broken or impossible loves.

But the nuanced and touching narrative he attempts is downright limited by his clichés and his human monsters and it becomes terribly poor.

(Translation generated by AI, so mistakes are possible).