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Bezig met laden... The Field of Vision (1956)door Wright Morris
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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. 3194. The Field of Vision, by Wright Morris (read May 10, 1999) This book won the 1957 National Book Award, and I am sort of "doing" those winners. Reading this brought to 25 the number of winners I've read. This I found an odd book, heavy with weird flashbacks and shifting points of view. I suppose it all means a lot, but it said little to me. I suppose I should reread it to try to make more meaningful its message, but I did not enjoy it enuf to do so. ( )
Except for Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, no one seems to remember novels about bullfights. Perhaps Hemingway’s late Romantic view of the gelded war-fighter versus the potent matador—so elemental, so asqueroso—lingers in the mind more than the comparatively domestic problems of a group of Midwesterners on holiday in Mexico, witnessing a quasi-comic killing of a bull, doused with Pepsi-Cola (now there’s a metaphor for American vantage-points), and harkening back to their own impotence.
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly climaxes his most richly creative period. It is a work of permanent significance and relevance to those who cannot be content with less than a full effort to cope with the symbolic possibilities of the human condition at the present time."--John W. Aldridge One of America's most distinguished authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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