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S'està carregant… Closely watched trains (1965 original; edició 2017)de Bohumil Hrabal, Edith Pargeter (Translator.)
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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. A wonderful, horrible, funny and sad story about a young boy, trying to become an adult man during the war. I enjoyed it very much, definitely five stars. ( ) Grabbed this from the library the day after watching the classic film version directed by Jiří Menzel. This is a superb novella. Comical and ghastly scenes in and around an unimportant railway halt in the final chaotic days of WWII. The narrator’s anxiety over his sexual awakening parallels the turbulence of the ongoing German retreat amid partisan countermeasures. The morally constipated stationmaster breeds (Polish, not German) pigeons; his wife fattens geese and gives off babushka vibes. Dispatcher Hubička is bald, plain, and a magnet for the ladies, famously applying the station’s range of stamps to the behind of the telegraph girl. Under it all is a collective profound, merciless hatred for the German occupiers and their barbarous ways, and a wish for them to be gone. The ending differs from the film version and is far better, I think. Hoed af voor dit debuut van de Tsjechische schrijver Hrabal (1914-1997). In een kort verhaal, amper 70 bladzijden, weet hij de beklemmende sfeer van het oorlogseinde, 1945, perfect onder woorden te brengen. Het duurt even voor we de verschillende verhaallijnen aan elkaar krijgen, een leuke vormelijke verwijzing naar de door elkaar lopende sporen in het rangeerstation waar het jonge hoofdpersonage seingever is, en waar treinen van de Duitse bezetter af en toe als schimmen doorsuizen. Diens koortsige monoloog, met ironische en absurdistische toetsen, verbindt zijn coming-of-age (hij heeft net een mislukte zelfmoordpoging achter de rug) achteloos met de heroïek van het verzet tegen de Nazi’s. Hrabal vervalt nergens in goedkope retoriek, integendeel, de donkere en beklemmende sfeer van dit heel condense verhaal blijft aan je ribben plakken. Treni strettamente sorvegliati è un romanzo di Bohumil Hrabal, pubblicato in ceco nel 1965. La prima edizione in italiano è di Edizioni e/o Roma, tr. in it. e cura di Sergio Corduas 1982. È un romanzo breve ambientato, durante l'occupazione nazista della Cecoslovacchia, in una piccola stazione di provincia. (fonte: Wikipedia) A short novel by this special author. Reflections on being a man, how to handle woman, resistance in the war and so forth. Kind of ridiculous at times, reflective on other moments, slapstick in the rest. Not clear to me if the author meant it to have comical aspects, but probably yes. Sarcasm on the state's organisation, fear of the German soldiers occupying Czechoslovakia and in the same time taking up courage to sabotage them and laughing with them in rare moments. The protagonist is not easy to catch, neither is the author. Giving signals to the passenger, army and other trains is the finest allegory i saw on getting all things in your life sorted out.
This slim book, 91 pages of strikingly wide margins, constitutes no more than a novella, but is full of incident. It also treats of those novelistic big issues, love, sex and death. In early 1945 various railway workers play out their lives against a backdrop of military and passenger train movements through their strategic location, a small railway station in Bohemia. The novella’s denouement takes place against the fire-bombing of Dresden lighting up the night sky. Graduate trainee Miloš Hrma comes from a long line of eccentrics, one of whom tried to stop the German invasion in 1939 by the power of hypnosis alone - before being crushed by a tank. In his private life Miloš is troubled in his relationship with his girlfriend Masha by a lapse of physical prowess at a crucial moment. The station is a surprisingly sexualised environment – the Station Master’s oilcloth covered couch has been ripped in several places during an illicit liaison and Dispatcher Hubrićka has used the station’s official stamps scandalously - to imprint the female telegraphist’s buttocks. The feel of the passages dealing with these aspects of people’s lives is akin to magic realism but of course along with these there are always in the background the train movements, which the workers keep under close surveillance, to consider. I know no Czech and consequently have not read the original so cannot say how true it was, but the translation read easily. A slight familiarity with German or Latin may occasionally help the reader with the few quotes from those languages which are included but the context makes most of them obvious and the important one is later rendered in English. In Closely Observed Trains Hrabal has written a fine novella, an impressive work about how life carries on even in trying circumstances - and also an observation on the futility and arbitrariness of war. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorials
For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; and the awesome scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka's gross misuse of the station's official stamps upon the telegraphist's anatomy. Beside these, Milos's part in the plan for the ammunition train seems a simple affair. CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism which fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of today. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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