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Bezig met laden... De baanbreker (1973)door Henning Mankell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Oskar is a rock blaster meaning he uses dynamite to blow up rocks so construction can be done. One of his charges does not go off so he goes to see what happens and there is a delayed explosion causing him severe injuries. As an old man he tells his story to the narrator during the summer. The narrator then puts his story together so we know what Oskar's life was. This is an odd book. Little snippets tell Oskar's story. It's as if he remembers one little piece at a time. It is not told linearly. It rambles but the narrator puts some order to it so we get to know Oskar. Oskar was not a talkative man. He tells his story as he remembers it or as something reminds him of the past. I do not know what I feel about the story. Oskar was a lonely man. He also had a lot of life experiences that many of us won't have. After his accident he learns the value of companionship and friendship. I liked how he visited Lindgren. I also liked he and Elvira could tell each other anything and not be judged. His children seemed to feel his was beneath them. They did not come around much. The narrator was more in his life than his children were. Oskar is more like most of us. He does not become a "star" but lives a life of small things--triumphs and hurts. He survives it and lives a long life. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in Sweden for the working class."--Publisher's description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)839.7374Literature German and related languages Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish fiction 1900-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I think I have read 3 of the Wallander books but it was at a time where I was reading less and less of the mystery/crime genre and moving on to other things. This is ironic because, this book, Mankell's first, is more like the other things I have moved onto. Looking at the reviews, I think a lot of people come to this book expecting a crime novel and when they get something else they are disappointed. I was not disappointed. In fact, I thought that for a first novel this was a very good effort. Certainly it is a better effort than the first novel I recently read by Wallace Stegner, Remembering Laughter, which I thought was not his finest. Not that I think Mankell, as a writer, is in the class of Stegner, but it is interesting to compare their first efforts.
I am not going to describe the plot of the book because, one, I think that is a waste of time and, two, there really isn't much of one. Let's just say it is about a Swedish everyman who is almost killed in a rock blast, his quiet life and his eventual death which, for me, was quite poignant. It is deeply introspective and philosophical and definitely a book for those who feel socialism is under-rated as a political system.
It was a 4.5 star book for me.
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