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S'està carregant… The Librarianist: A Novel (edició 2023)de Patrick deWitt (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Librarianist de Patrick deWitt
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) Mav-n-Libby | Nov 27, 2023 |  I was expecting vignettes about library life, but instead the novel has a very melancholy feel, a bit like A Man Called Ove, but with less humor. And the abrupt flashbacks to the three points in the librarians life left me wanting more, more "fill in those gaps", especially on the grand adventure he had as a kid. ( ) deslivres5 | Oct 30, 2023 | Unreachableshelf | Oct 29, 2023 | All the characters are well written, and I have a feeling that the Author may have done some research into the life of someone in assisted living, as well as the journey from elderly independence to a room in the home. Good read, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this. (  ) Melline | Oct 24, 2023 | As an ex-librarian, he thinks they would like to listen to stories so starts with some obscure story about a cat being hung up, moves on to Dostoevsky and then abandons it completely but keeps on turning up, encouraged by the manager Marie. Events trigger returning to a childhood adventure when he ran away for four days and stayed at Hotel Elba, all a bit fantastical in these days - a child on their own living in a hotel and being looked after a couple of women who call themselves thespians. Probably not! Eventually, Bob ends up living in the care home, friends with the other residents and the manager so a happy ending. But, I am not really sure what the message of this book is. It is a quirky, gentle read with Bob reflecting on the past and the trauma of the betrayal by his only two friends which he manages to overcome towards the end of his life. He dreamed most of his life of the Hotel Elba but towards the end of the book he dreamed of it as 'the halls empty but resonant with the sense of someone only just departed'. Is this what is happening to his mind? He seems to be more forgetful and strugling which is why he moves into the care home. I just don't know! I didn't understand his previous book either. (  ) allthegoodbooks | Oct 23, 2023 |
The Librarianist is unyielding in its defiance of our arguably too-set expectations about how novels should depict human interiority in times of flux, crisis, or transition. Bob Comet is no comet; he is a steady, low-voltage star, a pinprick of light who only partially awakens to the complexity of his own life. By the end, I came to admire Patrick deWitt’s commitment to the mission he has set himself: to render a figure who is not beaten up by loss or reformed by insight, a man who remains, nearly always, resolutely himself.  Patrick deWitt’s novel “The Librarianist” offers a quirky, affectionate portrait of a retired librarian who discovers friendship and community late in life...“The Librarianist,” a quirky, affectionate portrait of an introverted loner who makes some surprising connections late in life, DeWitt tames the outlandishness without sacrificing his offbeat humor. His bemused sense of compassion for his characters recalls Anne Tyler, with whom he shares a soft spot for misfits, along with a firm conviction that even supposedly ordinary people lead extraordinary lives. .. The title character, Bob Comet, is a former librarian in deWitt’s hometown of Portland, Oregon.... DeWitt’s great achievement is in creating, perhaps for the first time, a character whose very ordinariness is his defining feature. Of course, the section at the Hotel Elba goes to show the extent to which an ordinary life can be deceptive, though this comes at a cost on the level of emotional resonance. The aching heart of “The Librarianist” is a piercing seriocomic character study of isolation and abandonment. Would that deWitt had left his more flamboyant tendencies in the drawer for this one Llistes notables
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HTML: From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet's straight-man façade is the story of an unhappy child's runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian's vocation, and of the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Bob's experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsize players to welcome onto the stage of his life. With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, Patrick deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert's condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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