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S'està carregant… The English Patient (1992)de Michael ONDAATJE
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Booker Prize (13) » 54 més Best Historical Fiction (104) 501 Must-Read Books (96) Historical Fiction (84) 20th Century Literature (170) Unread books (130) Top Five Books of 2013 (513) A Novel Cure (130) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (125) Favourite Books (769) World War I Fiction (22) BBC Radio 4 Bookclub (59) Contemporary Fiction (12) War Literature (19) Big Jubilee List (8) Books Set in Canada (44) Elegant Prose (26) Best Love Stories (60) Books tagged favorites (177) Books Read in 2020 (3,399) Africa (50) Fiction For Men (38) 1990s (211) Tagged 20th Century (23) Protagonists - Men (18) I Can't Finish This Book (150) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Famous book, famous movie. Glad to have read; never have seen. Love and compassion, in the midst of the traumas of war. Should probably read again." The action was a little slow through out the book. Identified with Kip and could see how he felt betrayed at the end with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Went against everything he was trying to do with dismantling mines. The English patient was just a victim through out and held the other characters in place until the end. Just a good light read. 8401463297 Absolutely luminous. Ondaatje describes a world recovering from war through the four very human, very real characters past their points of unraveling. Everything is ruined, all hearts and minds have been beaten down if not totally destroyed, and the people in the book seem to wander numbly around one another in their affliction and shock, recalling the horrors of 1942 and the years leading up to it. Grief and emergence are two main themes of the novel, which comes off as anti-war and anti-colonialism. Through the memories of each of these four characters, the epic scope and political drama that makes war so attractive and compelling is deconstructed through the specific wreckage of the individuals involved. Hana, who accepts the depths of her madness rather than cope with the loss of her father, her unborn child, her own childhood, her empathy for the suffering of others. Caravaggio descends into a morphine-riddled cynicism and is last seen balanced on a line of hemp just above the tree line in the middle of a storm. Kip's own delusions about empire, loyalty, and safety that he built upon the deceitful guide of the colonial powers who control his homeland keep him at arms length from the world. And the English patient's love of the sparse and holy deserts are belittled and extirpated by the great powers of the Second World War; how a person can lose his identity through loss of place. Everything is in ruins throughout the novel, never built up, never whole again. Ondaatje's prose is tender but muscular, almost opaque. The wavering between chronologies is as unbalanced as the minds of his disintegrating characters, is well suited to the kind of ringing in the ears after bombs are dropped. As much as he writes about love, I feel like he uses it as an end to explore lack, and grief, and madness. So. Fucking. Good.
Ondaatje gibt jedem Charakter die Möglichkeit, sich dem Leser zu präsentieren und die ganz eigene Geschichte zu erzählen. Dabei ergreift er nicht Partei, sondern lässt die Figuren ganz einfach aus ihrem Blickwinkel erzählen. Die Schnittstelle, die sie verbinden, werden durch die Orte, an denen sie sich aufgehalten haben, definiert und dadurch geradezu greifbar. Zufälligkeiten scheinen ursächlich zu sein, dass die Personen in Kontakt treten und wieder voneinander scheiden. Die Schwierigkeit, jeder Figur ihren Platz innerhalb dieser Geschichte zuzuweisen, ohne den Faden zu verlieren, bewältigt Ondaatje meisterhaft. ... the plane must have been drying out under its tarpaulin in the desert for eight years. It is entirely covered with sand. Almasy `digs' it out : with what? ... Having shifted tons of sand ... he moves, single-handed, the plane out on to the level, so it can take off. How, single-handed, does he `swing the prop'? ... sand would have penetrated moving parts of the machinery and would have to be meticulously dusted out. ... Almasy merely pours in his can of petrol -- and the engine starts! It is a complex and confusing novel whose readers might easily want to consult the index simply to untangle the threads of the plot ... to clarify events that had another meaning ... in an earlier context. Una vez oí a una mujer africana decir que no se podía describir África, que África solo se entiende si se ha vivido allí. Hace años ya de aquel momento y, sin embargo, esas palabras se me han quedado grabadas y las recuerdo con frecuencia. Por ejemplo, me han venido a la memoria al leer El paciente inglés, de Michael Ondaatje, y no solo porque hable de lo que supone atravesar el desierto de Libia, algo inimaginable para nuestras cabezas acostumbradas a vidas sencillas, sino porque además transmite el peso de la guerra, un hecho también inconcebible para los que siempre hemos vivido en paz. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsContingut aTé la seqüela (no dins una sèrie)Té l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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![]() GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54 — Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:![]()
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