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Bezig met laden... Treasures of Time (1979)door Penelope Lively
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Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Penguin Decades (1970s)
When the BBC plans a programme on the dig which made archaeologist Hugh Paxton famous, a host of memories are disinterred, and lives disrupted. Kate adored her father and considers the TV scheme an intrusion. Laura Paxton, lonely and bored, is delighted at the prospect of being seen as the charming widow of a distinguished scholar. A cynical on-looker to the filming is Tom Rider, Kate's fiance. While completing his thesis on an 18th century antiquarian, Tom observes the perplexities of being English and the parasitism of making a living out of the past. For Paxton's family and colleagues, the site, a Neolithic barrow, becomes the focus for recollections as selective as the filming which will in turn distort the Wiltshire scenery. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Navigating the different memories this present-day excavation unearths, Lively is able to give us a true sense of how those who have devoted their lives to uncovering the truths of history—e.g., Paxton, and also the young Tom, engaged to Paxton’s aloof and emotionally traumatized daughter, Kate—may know less than those who have lived their own histories more organically, such as Nellie, first Paxton’s lover and then sister-in-law (and, possibly, her lover yet again), who is confined to a wheelchair after a stroke yet is still more mobile in the outside world—as well as the inner world—than many of the other characters; Laura, Nellie’s sister and Paxton’s widow, who, despite her class-conscious snobbism and her disdain for the new generation (it seems like the mid-to-late-1970s), clings to memories of her past, even if only for purely selfish reasons; and the Paxtons’ daughter Kate, who is as unpredictable as the land her father explored and charted, proving, in short, that only nature rules where mankind fails, and that it is our blunder to think we can either rewrite history or claim ownership or knowledge of a land’s spoils.
While this is a minor Lively, her pacing is spot-on, even as she moves somewhat quickly from each characters’ point-of-view and from the present to the past. Recommended for fans of Lively’s more mature work, fans of Bowen, fans of Taylor, and also perhaps fans of Brookner. ( )