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S'està carregant… The Bellsde Richard Harvell
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) kakadoo202 | Dec 31, 2023 |  (UPDATE: I really liked this book - very different from most novels I've read recently) (  ) decaturmamaof2 | Nov 28, 2018 | Il problema è che nel complesso questo libro non funziona. Non è brutto, ma qualcosa non si incastra a dovere. E' uno di quei classici casi in cui non si capisce dove voglia andare a parare: troppo stravagante per essere storico, ma troppo poco per essere fantasy. Un po' avventura, un po' romance, insomma c'è di tutto in questo romanzo senza che venga mai approfondito niente. I personaggi sono stereotipati e non hanno la minima verosimiglianza storica, agiscono e pensano come uomini dei nostri tempi. Il protagonista poi è particolarmente insulso, sempre spaesato e in balia degli eventi: caratteristiche che ispirano tenerezza nella prima parte in cui è bambino, ma solo irritazione una volta cresciuto; ed effettivamente l'inizio è la parte più riuscita, proseguendo la trama perde mordente. Insomma è un libro che in fondo non mi pento di aver letto, ma che non consiglierei a nessuno. (  ) Lilirose_ | Oct 8, 2018 | ) MaureenCean | Nov 8, 2017 | The Bells is a fictional autobiography, a letter written by a castrati father to his son, explaining how their relationship came to be. Moses Froben is born in a remote Swiss village to a deaf-mute woman who finds her one great pleasure (apart from her love for her son) in the vibrations she feels ringing the massive bells in her village's church. These bells are so loud that the villagers clamp their hands to their ears, but the sound has a different effect on Moses, giving him an almost magical ability to hear and dissect sounds, near and far. When the village priest (his father) discovers that Moses is not deaf like his mother, the man attempts to drown Moses in a river. Moses is rescued by traveling monks, Nicolai and Remus, and taken to the monastery at St. Gall. Here his angelic voice is discovered by the choir master and preserved for all time by a horrible act of castration. Surprisingly, The Bells is a love story, for Moses falls in love with a woman who is forbidden to him. The Bells is also a mystery—for how can Moses, a castrati, a musico, be the father of the recipient of this novel-length letter? Finally, The Bells is music. Harvell's magical prose gives sound to Moses' life: the bells, the arias, and the uneven breath of true love. (  )1  elizabethcfelt | May 15, 2017 |
One of the most difficult feats Harvell accomplishes in "The Bells" is capturing the physical experience of music. It warms necks and backs, resonates in jaws and temples, and rings in chests and legs. Music fights with death, seduces a woman, guides a thief and ultimately triumphs in love. PremisDistincions
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HTML: Dazzling, enchanting, and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper, and unlikely loverâ??a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman, banished to the church tower to ring the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land each day. His life is simple but content, until the day his father recognizes Moses' singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the historic Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration, meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in 18th-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and he tells of the two noble friendsâ??and a forbidden loverâ??whom he cherished during the chaotic years he spent in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni. But in this letter he also reveals the astonishing secrets of his past and answers the question that has shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son he could never have sired? Recounting his birth in the 1700s in a belfry high in the Alps, to his appearance on Europe's greatest stages, this epic novel is the story of the greatest ears on earthâ??from a deaf mother's cries, to the beating of a forbidden lover's heart, to the arias of Vienna's greatest opera house, and the deadly booming of the world's loudest, most glorious No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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