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S'està carregant… House of Meetings (2006 original; edició 2007)de Martin Amis
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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. Unremarkable visit to familiar gulag territory. Oprah Club fodder. ( ) Entre el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la muerte de Stalin, dos hermanos son encarcelados en la Unión Soviética por irrisorias, imaginarias transgresiones políticas, y ambos acaban en el mismo campo de trabajo en Siberia. Lev, es un frágil poeta, pacífico y pacifista. El otro, el narrador sin nombre, el superviviente y protector de su hermano -aunque también rival-, es un endurecido veterano de guerra para quien la violencia ha sido siempre un "arma neutra". Los hermanos no han llegado al mismo tiempo a Norlag, el campo de esclavos, un lugar casi zoológico, donde los "cerdos", las "víboras", las "sanguijuelas", las "langostas" y los "comemierda" se disputan las jerarquías del horror. En el tiempo que medió entre la detención de uno y otro, Lev se ha casado con Zoya, la joven judía por la que competían, y a la que amarán toda la vida. Pero entre los barracones del campo que albergan a los esclavos, hay también una Casa de los Encuentros. Una novela magistral, donde resuenan los ecos de Conrad y Nabokov, en la que Amis construye una Rusia que se desliza hacia la nada, deslumbrante artificio literario, entre el horror gótico y la ciencia ficción, y prueba fehaciente de que sólo la literatura permite comprender el enigmático, terrible espesor de la realidad. This book poses a lot of important question about uncomfortable realities - the prevalence of rape in wartime, the greediness of a passive nature, the chance for morality in dire conditions. Overall, I guess this book shows us the dangers of going along with the flow, and the opposite challenges of letting your morality dictate your actions. I struggled giving this book a rating--- there are so many great things about this work. However, except the sections with the Lev character-- I didn't really like it. Written well, engaging characters, leading questions. A lot of good things, but it didn't really come together in a satisfying way.
House of Meetings is short, the prose is controlled, the humor sparse, while the characters strike us as real, or at least possible, people. It is a remarkable achievement, a version of the great Russian novel done in miniature, with echoes throughout of its mighty predecessors. Mr. Amis depicts these characters' lives with an economy of language and detail, choosing, after the debacle of the overwritten ''Yellow Dog,'' to rely on an almost fablelike minimalism to evoke the horrors of Norlag. And the result, more often than not, comes to read like a wicked parody of the Amis style. Sometimes, indeed, it appears that the author has wholly abdicated in favour of Craig Brown. PremisDistincionsLlistes notables
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HTML: There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for massacre in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin. Both brothers are arrested, and their rivalry slowly complicates itself over a decade in the slave camp above the Arctic Circle. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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