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Bezig met laden... Whatever It Is, I Don't Like Itdoor Howard Jacobson
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'Amicably provocative” is how Howard Jacobson describes the mood in which he approaches the weekly column that he writes for the Independent, a phrase that connotes a kind of gentle disinterest in his subject matter. Howard Jacobson doesn't even wait until the first line of this splendid anthology, a successful and affecting mix of whimsy and polemic, before the gloves come off. Because even the title, as he says in his intro, "suggests a querulousness which I don't in all honesty lay claim to… [but] it isn't in my nature to be non-confrontational".
It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with aesthetics is supposed to be. But the hour passes. Good men return from fighting Satan in the wilderness the stronger for their struggle, and so do I. The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed journalism. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences weave together to create a hilarious, heartbreaking and uniquely human collection. This book is not just a series of parts, but an irresistible, unputdownable sum which triumphantly out-Thurbers Thurber. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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