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S'està carregant… Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)de Jonathan Safran Foer
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The bigger problem is that Foer never lets his character wander off without an errand. In fact, there is hardly a line in this book that has not been written for the purpose of eliciting a particular emotion from the reader. The novel is a tearjerker. ...The skepticism and satire that marked the best parts of Everything Is Illuminated are nowhere in evidence here. The search for the lock that fits a mysterious key dovetails with related and parallel quests in this (literally) beautifully designed second novel from the gifted young author (Everything Is Illuminated, 2002). The searcher is nine-year-old Oskar Schell, an inventive prodigy who (albeit modeled on the protagonist of Grass's The Tin Drum) employs his considerable intellect with refreshing originality in the aftermath of his father Thomas's death following the bombing of the World Trade Center. That key, unidentified except for the word "black" on the envelope containing it, impels Oskar to seek out every New Yorker bearing the surname Black, involving him with a reclusive centenarian former war correspondent, and eventually the nameless elderly recluse who rents a room in his paternal grandma's nearby apartment. Meanwhile, unmailed letters from a likewise unidentified "Thomas" reveal their author's loneliness and guilt, while stretching backward to wartime Germany and a horrific precursor of the 9/11 atrocity: the firebombing of Dresden. In a riveting narrative animated both by Oskar's ingenuous assumption of adult responsibility and understanding (interestingly, he's "playing Yorick" in a school production of Hamlet) and the letter-writer's meaningful silences, Foer sprinkles his tricky text with interpolated illustrations that render both the objects of Oskar's many interests and the memories of a survivor who has forsworn speech, determined to avoid the pain of loving too deeply. The story climaxes as Oskar discovers what the key fits, and also the meaning of his life (all our lives, actually), in a long-awaited letter from astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Much more is revealed as this brilliant fiction works thrilling variations on, and consolations for, its plangent message: that "in the end, everyone loses everyone." Yes, but look what Foer has found. Film rights to Scott Rudin in conjunction with Warner Bros. and Paramount; author tour. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDwarsliggers (27) Contingut aTé l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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M'ha agradat el llibre: tant l'argument com la forma. És d'aquells que tenen varies capes d'històries superposades. No és un llibre plenament rodó, En alguns moments sembla com si no estigués "muntat" bé del tot i una veu expliqués algun fet que hauria d'haver deixat per més endavant, però potser l'autor ho ha fet així amb tota la intenció. En qualsevol cas crec que hi ha moments que emocionen de debó i que val la pena acostar-se i coneixer als seus protagonistes, perquè són fantàstics: carinyosos, bons, egoïstes a estones, extranys, capaços d'una crueltat punyent,... veritablement humans.
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