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Carregando... Summer Lies: Stories (2010)de Bernhard Schlink
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ir descubriendo cuidadosamente las mentiras con las que vivimos es el núcleo central de estos hermosos relatos melancólicos y sin concesiones. Bernhard Schlink a du talent. Il en fait la démonstration tant dans ses romans que dans ses nouvelles. L'écriture est comme toujours sobre et limpide. Comme son titre l'indique, les sept nouvelles de ce recueil renferment toutes un mensonge, une dissimulation, dont les histoires se déroulent au cours d'un été. Les personnages, d'âge mur ou âgés, jouissent quasiment tous d'une situation sociale assez confortable. Pourtant, leurs vies sont perturbées et leurs rêves insatisfaits : l'irrésolution face à un choix de vie faisant suite à une rencontre amoureuse, l'infidélité, la maladie et la vieillesse, la difficulté à aimer et à communiquer, la folie qui couve sont autant de thèmes dans ce livre résolument sombre. Le talent de Schlink est véritablement à l'œuvre pour décrire une situation ou un quotidien qui se dérèglent, créant un sentiment d'étrangeté et d'inquiétude chez le lecteur. Rarement la vieillesse et la souffrance d'un malade vivant son dernier été auront été traitées avec autant d'acuité et de sensibilité (Der letze Sommer). Ma préférence va également à la nouvelle Das Haus im Wald pour l'atmosphère inquiétante qui s'en dégage. This is, overall, a very strong collection of seven interesting, longish short stories. Most of them are generally about the disenchantment of weath, success, family and love and take place in various parts of Europe and the U.S. Something made me care about these people though, despite how pathetic that last sentence just sounded. Truly though, not all who acquire the things we all want, marriage, a successful career, etc., are happy, and these stories show that. Or maybe, more accurately, they are not sure if they are happy. Schlink is a graceful writer who seems to, in equal parts, care about his characters and dislike them (and there seems a bit of glee in watching them implode). All of the stories are a bit (or a lot) unsettling and the most disturbing one was actually the story I liked the most, "The House In The Forest" about a failed author, married to another writer and she quickly becomes the "it" author of the decade, demanding all of her time traveling and when she is home working. To try to contain her, he becomes the stay at home Father to their little girl and they buy a house out of NYC and in the country on the border of Vermont. Slowly he starts to unravel, but in such a way that was so incredibly real and creepy. Recommend these stories highly and if I had one complaint it was the repetitive them of disenchantment amongst so many characters who, buy most people's estimation, have everything they could want. Every story seemed to touch on that. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A collection of seven short stories that examine the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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