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Bezig met laden... Hopeful Monsters (1990)door Nicholas Mosley
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This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the Catastrophe Practice series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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But the uniqueness of this book is that Mosley illustrates all these perspectives by means of his concrete characters and what they experience or do: they constantly function in one of the above-mentioned scientific debates (for example, as particles that attract or repel each other, or who function as matter or wave according to the observer's point of view) and he constantly lets those characters, while they say or do certain things at the same time think of the underlying scientific-philosophical issues in themselves; and on top of that, Mosley again and again underlines the ethical implications of these ideas and actions. That gives a certain artificial character to the 'dramatis personae' (they literally seem to be actors who create their role and also undergo him at the same time). It takes quite some patience and attention to follow all this, and it makes the reading of this book utterly intriguing and difficult at the same time. Hence the very different reviews by the readers of this book, from wildly enthusiastic to absolutely horrified, and hardly anything in between. In the unlikely hope of being original, I opt for the ambiguous middle-opinion: this book is an incredible achievement of Mosley, but it is not a successful piece of fiction. ( )