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Bezig met laden... The View from Castle Rock: Stories (origineel 2006; editie 2007)door Alice Munro
Informatie over het werkHet uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock door Alice Munro (2006)
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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. Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "The immigrant experience described as Alice tells the tales of her Scottish ancestors who went to Canada." ( ) Un'opera in cui la Munro intreccia autobiografia e genealogia, vicenda personale e storia collettiva. Il libro si divide in due parti: nella prima, "Area depressa",è affidato il racconto dei suoi antenati scozzesi, i Laidlow, che il 4 giugno 1818 salgono a bordo di una nave per emigrare in America; nella seconda parte "A casa" troviamo il racconto in prima persona di alcuni particolari momenti della vita della scrittrice. Narrare la propria esistenza per la Munro è conoscere se stessi, recuperare tutti i segni del vissuto in volti, paesaggi, ambienti. E' soprattutto bisogno di guardarsi indietro e trovare significati, salvare gli insegnamenti. Come per tutti gli esseri umani, ciò è un "fare ordine" necessario. One of her few novels, I'm told, made up of distinct titled short stories. My preferred ordering principle in my own writing. It covers two centuries of changing characters, from Scotland to Ontario, Canada, as described by a descendant. Which would be, in a mixture of fiction and memoir, narrated by the sensitive and perceptive author who makes it work. This was the second Alice Munro I've read (Open Secrets was the other.) It's well-written; that goes without saying. She muses on the border of story and family history. I started to imagine writing something similar for our family. Her specialty seems to be exploring the icky borders of sexual awakening and she has an interest in the disturbing. Maybe it's because I read this while I was recovering from the flu, but I felt a little woozy afterwards. "A View" is also about class and where we are comfortable. I couldn't say that she comes to any conclusions other than one doesn't need to be "rescued". There is some reflection on a kind of joyless religion imported from Scotland. She returns to this a couple of times, but repeats "I am not believer." Nonsense; everyone believes in something; it's this particular old and corporate formulation which she doesn't trust.
Alice Munro's new book, The View from Castle Rock, is a delightful fraud. Whether through failure of imagination on her publisher's part, or a lack of confidence in the reader, or a shrewd authorial gambit, it is offered as a book of "Stories", the author's eleventh. But it is something else, a major achievement, and an exciting revitalisation of a somewhat exhausted genre. Resounding flyleaf rhetoric issues a denial: "So is this a memoir? No." Well, yes. It is. It is a memoir as only Alice Munro could write it. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Keltainen kirjasto (387) PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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