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Bezig met laden... De jongen die het paard van Attila stal (2013)door Iván Repila
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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. I can understand this book get some people raving about it. I also enjoyed it, front to back, yet I guess I perhaps didn't really "get it". The tale is nice, albeit rather straightforward in itself, but the real magic lies in reading it beyond the metaphor it is. I'm afraid I didn't succeed there, and am sure I must have missed the point [a:Repila|5862584|Iván Repila|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] was making. So, in short, three stars after my first reading. > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Repila-Le-Puits/649673 > LE PUITS, par Ivan Repila, Trad. de l'espagnol par Margot Nguyen Béraud (10/18, 2016, Poche, 128 pages). — Deux frères, le Grand et le Petit, sont prisonniers au fond d’un puits de terre, au milieu d’une forêt. Ils tentent de s’échapper, sans succès. Les loups, la soif, les pluies torrentielles : ils survivent à tous les dangers. À leurs côtés, un sac de victuailles donné par la mère, mais ils ont interdiction d’y toucher. Jour après jour, le Petit s’affaiblit. S’il doit sauver son frère, le Grand doit risquer sa vie. Le Petit sortira-t-il? Le Grand survivra-t-il? Comment surtout se sont-ils retrouvés là? Le Puits est un conte brutal à la fin cruelle et pleine d’espoir. Une fable sur l’amour fraternel, la survie et la vengeance, un roman «qui a mérité sa place au panthéon des Jules Verne, Alain-Fournier et autres Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, selon Zoé Valdés. Un roman indispensable, alors que beaucoup d’entre nous avions déjà annoncé la défaite de l’imagination contre la quotidienneté médiocre et étriquée.» —Johnny Gimenez (Culturebox) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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'It looks impossible to get out,' he says. And also: 'But we'll get out.' Two brothers, Big and Small, are trapped at the bottom of a well, stalked by madness and with no means of escape. Struggling for sustenance and clinging to sanity, Big forges a plan to free his little brother. Fast-paced and rich in metaphor, this extraordinary new story poses questions of fight, survival and solidarity when people are faced with devastation. Powerful, disquieting and highly original, Repila's unique allegory explores with bravery and emotion the depths of human desperation and, ultimately, our almost unending capacity for hope. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Two young brothers, Big and Small, are trapped inside a well on the edge of a wood. The walls are high, slippery and unassailable yet the brothers are determined to escape. The chapter numbers are the total days they have been down in the well and as time goes on, the duress of the situation intensifies the fractiousness of their relationship. Eating bugs from the walls of the well to sustain themselves, Big drafts a plan of escape fraught with danger. Meanwhile, after initial injury from a previous escape attempt, his younger malnourished brother struggles to stay alive. As his lucidity falters he appears to transcend his experience and the well towards something skin to a Jungian collective unconscious; he recounts strange, dreamlike soliloquies of stealing a horse and destroying the world that alienate his brother but beguile the reader.
In many ways, 'The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse' is faultless. The writing reminded me of 'Grief is a Thing with Feathers' but is also a class apart. I feel I have only scratched the surface of its meaning with one read and will definitely visit it again. The most impressive part - and what I consider is often the most important factor when considering a book to be a 5/5 - is the ending. A great book has to deliver on its early promise and Repila masterfully brought his novella to a significant end, well worthy of the highest accolades and highly recommended. ( )