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Bezig met laden... Gehe hin, stelle einen Wächter: Roman (origineel 2015; editie 2015)door Harper Lee (Auteur), Ulrike Wasel (Übersetzer), Klaus Timmermann (Übersetzer)
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A story about a father and a daughter, but also a story about life in the Southern States of the US. The daughter comes bakc from New York for a 2 week holiday in the town where she was born. She still loves the people until she discovers that the way they think is fundamentally different from her ideas. The story starts very easy, until the moment the story changes from tone. Then you are drawn into the story violently and are forced to choose a side. That turns out to be difficult. For me the end is a bit weak, but the rest of the story still keeps me busy. ( )
Shockingly, in Ms. Lee’s long-awaited novel, “Go Set a Watchman” (due out Tuesday), Atticus is a racist who once attended a Klan meeting, who says things like “The Negroes down here are still in their childhood as a people.” Or asks his daughter: “Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” The depiction of Atticus in “Watchman” makes for disturbing reading, and for “Mockingbird” fans, it’s especially disorienting. Scout is shocked to find, during her trip home, that her beloved father, who taught her everything she knows about fairness and compassion, has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares her horror and confusion. “Mockingbird” suggested that we should have compassion for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, while “Watchman” asks us to have understanding for a bigot named Atticus. And so beneath Atticus’s style of enlightenment is a kind of bigotry that could not recognize itself as such at the time. The historical and human fallacies of the Agrarian ideology hardly need to be rehearsed now, but it should be said that these views were not regarded as ridiculous by intellectuals at the time. Indeed, Jean Louise/Lee herself, though passionately opposed to what her uncle and her father are saying, nevertheless accepts the general terms of the debate as the right ones. Go Set a Watchman is a troubling confusion of a novel, politically and artistically, beginning with its fishy origin story. .. I ached for this adult Scout: The civil rights movement may be gathering force, but the second women's movement hasn't happened yet. I wanted to transport Scout to our own time — take her to a performance of Fun Home on Broadway — to know that, if she could only hang on, the possibilities for nonconforming tomboys will open up. Lee herself, writing in the 1950s, lacks the language and social imagination to fully develop this potentially powerful theme. Despite the boldness and bravery of its politics, Go Set a Watchman is a very rough diamond in literary terms … it is a book of enormous literary interest, and questionable literary merit. It is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event, akin to the discovery of extra sections from T S Eliot’s The Waste Land or a missing act from Hamlet hinting that the prince may have killed his father. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Is opgenomen inPrijzenOnderscheidingen
Als de New Yorkse studente Jean Louise naar haar geboorteplaats Maycomb in Alabama terugkeert, raakt ze gedesillusioneerd door de huichelachtigheid van de bewoners, voorop haar vader. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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