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S'està carregant… La Torre (2008)de Uwe Tellkamp
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. DNF. The Tower / Der Turm has been praised as a masterpiece of describing life in East Germany in the 1980s, the struggle of people against a doomed regime based on secrets and lies. And, yet, I'm throwing in the towel. I just can't get past the ridiculous writing style and the overblown descriptions in this book. Obviously, I am not going to comment on the plot, the characters, or the historical accuracy as I haven't finished the book. What I will say, tho, is that 200 pages in neither plot, characters or setting managed to capture me or made me want to suffer through another 800 pages of writing that was nearly as spurious, convoluted and self-congratulatory as that of my recent encounter with Elizabeth Bowen - and that is saying something. J'ai beaucoup aimé la première (longue) partie, moins la seconde, pleine de qualités encore mais un peu plus bavarde tout en étant bien plus sombre. Survolé la troisième / conclusion. La lecture de la première moitié du roman (pas loin de 500 pages) vaut vraiment la peine, j'aime beaucoup ces livres qui reconstituent tout un monde avec une multitude de personnages et une géographie pointilleuse. Le problème n'est pas que le livre soit sombre, loin de là, le sujet n'est évidemment pas joyeux, mais que plus on descend dans le douloureux plus l'auteur choisit de faire entendre des "voix intérieures" pas très audibles, sans doute pour montrer l'effet débilitant des derniers mois du régime sur les esprits… mais c'est un peu fastidieux à lire, j'ai un peu perdu le fil du récit, certains personnages disparaissent sans raison quand d'autres (les personnages d'écrivains, d'intellectuels et d'artistes en particulier) deviennent très envahissants. Par ailleurs, la traduction française aurait méritée d'être mieux relue, certaines erreurs laissent supposer que le traducteur a confié une part de son travail à des stagiaires qui n'ont pas lu le livre dans son ensemble. This book isn't for me it seems. I tried to hold on but on page 232 I gave up. All colours are there to make an interesting story. But to me it is like Tellkamp is describing his ingredients to much on the surface. He says this, she says that, this is how it looks, this is what happens, these are facts from the DDR, there is young love, there is love outside the marriage, there are in betweens written in another style... but I can't find the deep flow that makes me want to read on. Maybe it is also because the unspoken in a book is as important as what the reader is being told directly. Like the importance of silences in a piece of music. It has been constructed more by the head than by the soul, maybe. It's a shame for all the work the writer has put into it. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Familie Rohde und Hoffmann, die zum bürgerlichen Rest der DDR gehören. Wer verstehen möchte, wie dieses Milieu in der DDR lebte, wie die DDR auch mit ihren (vermeintlichen oder tatsächlichen) Gegner*innen umging, wird kaum ein besseres Buch finden können, als dieses. Weltliteratur. ( )