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S'està carregant… The Little Stranger (2009)de Sarah Waters
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While at one turn, the novel looks to be a ghost story, the next it is a psychological drama of the calibre of du Maurier's Rebecca. But it is also a brilliantly observed story, verging on comedy, about Britain on the cusp of the modern age. In the end, though, however fresh the prose, confident the plotting and astute the social analysis, The Little Stranger has a slightly secondhand feel to it. Waters is clearly at the top of her game, with few to match her ability to bring the past to life in a fully imagined world. I look forward to the book in which she leaves behind past templates, with their limitations, and breaks away to make her own literary history. I guess the Waters fans I spoke to were right to be anxious. There is plenty of lovely writing here, and the plot wasn't so dissatisfying that it put me off entirely. But it made me wary. Should I be? Or is it her worst work? Or, indeed, am I missing something? Over to you. The Little Stranger, like all the best works of postmodernist fiction, acknowledges both that making up stories is a mistaken and hopeless way to try to understand the world, and at the same time that it’s the best – perhaps the only – way we have. The story ends in madness, suicide and a creepy darkness reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" -- mixed with jolts of anxiety and social upheaval reminiscent of today's news. Té l'adaptacióTé un comentari al textPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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El llibre està ple de llocs comuns que tots hem viscut al cinema o a la literatura: "Rebeca" o "Una altra volta de rosca", però sap mantenir bé la distància amb ells i no tenim la sensació de estar rellegint una altra novel.la. Dos dels motius de què això passi són:
Per una banda, que la novel.la també es pot llegir com el retrat de la fase final d ela decadència d'una familia adinerada, i, de l'atre que l'autora sap tancar molt bé la història. Si el lector vol pot quedar-se amb la sensació de que hi ha més d'una explicació, però desde el moment que l'autora ha titulat l'obra com ho ha fet no queda dubte de qui ha estat el responsable i com ho ha fet.
No és una obra perfecta, ni tampoc gaire original, però funciona molt bé, t'enganxa i, almenys jo, he gaudit molt de la seva lectura. ( )