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Carregando... Saturday (2005)de Ian McEwan
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Nascido em 1948, Ian McEwan é considerado por muitos críticos o melhor romancista de sua geração, na Inglaterra. Em Sábado, ele conta todas as horas de um dia na vida de Henry Perowne, neurocirurgião londrino altamente conceituado. A data é 15 de fevereiro de 2003. O dia de folga do médico será abalado por dois acontecimentos paralelos, um público e outro privado: no centro de Londres se prepara a maior manifestação popular já vista na cidade, com 1 milhão de pessoas nas ruas para contestar a invasão iminente do Iraque; ao mesmo tempo, um banal acidente de trânsito envolvendo o carro de Perowne e o de um homem com graves problemas neurológicos - problemas que Perowne conhece como poucos - trará conseqüências graves para o médico e sua família. Embora Perowne tente ver o mundo pela lente da razão e da lógica científica, o incidente fará explodir forças brutais que desafiarão suas certezas e todo o seu modo de vida.Ao apresentar ruas e bairros de Londres com notável realismo visual e sensorial, Ian McEwan retrata com agudeza um momento em que o impacto dos atentados do 11 de Setembro em Nova York repercute na consciência dos ingleses, despertando a compreensão de que sua sociedade é vulnerável. O escritor sabe valer-se do ambiente impregnado pelo temor de novos atentados para conferir aos detalhes triviais do cotidiano uma carga de tensão equivalente à de seus premiados romances Amsterdam e Reparação.A fim de narrar com precisão as perigosas e delicadas cirurgias cerebrais, McEwan conviveu por dois anos com neurocirurgiões e presenciou inúmeras operações num hospital de Londres. ( )
L’acuité du regard et le sens du détail dévastateur. La profondeur de la réflexion politique autant que philosophique. Why review a work of fiction for The Indexer? Chiefly because of the author’s use of several very different taxonomies covering neurosurgery, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, blues music, squash and fish. The cumulative effect of this detail is to emphasize that, despite much knowledge, training, experience and wide interests, Perowne is powerless to control unexpected horrors. He uses his brain to heal other brains, but he cannot fathom the workings of the mind. The complex taxonomy of neurosurgery is used twice: at the opening of the book and again near the end. The author could have maintained the reader’s interest and suspense with more simple language, but his careful research has produced a precision that gives a far stronger sense of authenticity, not only to medical indexers who will have little trouble following the procedures. Again with Alzheimer’s disease: the detail contrasts with the lively mother and swimming champion whom Perowne remembers when he visits her in a nursing home. As for Huntington’s chorea, the taxonomy is essential to explain the unusual behaviour of the man who threatens him; he is not the average street thug. The squash game is, again, described moment by moment and gives insight to Perowne’s character: he is desperately keen to win, coming close to an acrimonious dispute with his anaesthetist with whom he has an ideal professional relationship. Even the fishmonger’s slab is described in taxonomic detail which leads to Perowne’s contemplation of moral matters such as whether fish feel pain. Overall, however, Saturday has the feel of a neoliberal polemic gone badly wrong; if Tony Blair—who makes a fleeting personal appearance in the book, oozing insincerity—were to appoint a committee to produce a "novel for our time," the result would surely be something like this. [T]he lambent, stream-of-consciousness narrative that Mr. McEwan uses so adroitly in these pages. In fact, "Saturday" reads like an up-to-the-moment, post-9/11 variation on Woolf's classic 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway." We have learned to expect the worst from Ian McEwan. Since his debut collection of stories, First Love, Last Rites, his fiction has always dwelt at the heart of places we hope never to find ourselves in: the vacancies left in lives by the kidnapped child or the lost lover; the mined no-man's-land that follows extreme violence or sexual obsession. His subject has always been damage and the way the darkest events in a life will drain the rest of love. For McEwan, happiness has rarely gone unpunished. Pertence à série publicadaGallimard, Folio (4661) Otavan kirjasto (174) Panorama de Narrativas (615) Rainbow pocketboeken (950) PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him-with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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