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Carregando... Ring Roadsde Patrick Modiano
   Books Read in 2022 (4,429) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |    ) tmph | Sep 13, 2020 | ) KirjaJussi | Apr 22, 2018 | That is the reason that this relatively short novel just didn't work for me. Other aspects of the book are decent to good -- the writing, the structure, the atmosphere, the gradual build-up to a reveal that makes you re-evaluate the entire story. All of that works: the portions of the book that deal with world-building and setting are excellent. I just don’t think it gelled well with the the main story, which, indeed, deals with a thirty-ish male introvert whining about their daddy issues: the bloated self-importance of those parts enervated me instead of engaging my interest. So the main character grew up without his daddy, briefly ran a semi-successful antiques con together after high school, and then he just up and left his daddy. At the time of the main events, that was ten years ago, and now he’s tracked daddy down again, only for some unexplained reason daddy doesn't recognize him. And so we get to watch as the main character strikes up an awkward, spiteful acquaintance with his estranged father and his circle of unpleasant friends. This one was not for me. Too much self-pity, too much whining, too much artificial mysteries generated by withholding information -- I just couldn't care. Modiano is good at invoking atmosphere, and there’s a late-ish reveal about the background that kinda sorta explains some of the mysteries, but, in my opinion, that was not enough to offset my annoyance. Better luck next time. (  )1  Petroglyph | May 6, 2016 |  ) pelo75 | Jan 6, 2015 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy, corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor, the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute, who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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E ora che siamo seduti uno di fronte all'altro come due cani di terracotta e che posso a mio agio osservare la tua grossa testa levantina HO PAURA. (93)
... i figli uccidevano i padri per dimostrare a se stessi di possedere dei muscoli. Ma, al giorno d'oggi, contro chi rivolgere i nostri colpi? Eccoci condannati, da orfani quali siamo, a inseguire un fantasma alla ricerca di una paternita'. Impossibile raggiungerlo. Se la squaglia sempre.
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