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Bezig met laden... Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (origineel 1945; editie 2008)door Evelyn Waugh (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkTerug naar Brideshead door Evelyn Waugh (1945)
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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. Ik weet niet goed hoe ik dit boek moet beschrijven. Het is een familiekroniek van de familie Marchain in de eerste helft van de 20ste eeuw. De familie is volkomen verbrokkeld, De vader woont in Venetië, de moeder en de 4 kinderen in het huis. Maar niet constant. het verhaal wordt verteld door Charles Ryder, die bevriend raakt met Sebastian, een van de zonen. Dat is de eerste keer dat hij kennismaakt met het huis Brideshead. Later komt hij nog enige malen terug naar het huis en verblijft er langere periode als minnaar van dochter Julia. Ik vond het wel aardig hoe de schrijver de sfeer van die tijd weet neer te zetten. Het boeide me wel, maar het was voor mij moeilijk om me verbonden te voelen met een van de personages. Misschien is de jongste dochter Cordelia nog de meest aansprekende. ( ) Merkwaardig om zowel de TV-serie uit 1981 en de film uit 2008 diverse malen gezien te hebben, en nu pas het boek te lezen. Wat onder meer opviel is dat de TV-serie het boek zeer nauwkeurig navolgde, inclusief de dialogen, en daar dan ook tien uur en negenvijftig minuten voor nodig had (tijdsduur ontleend aan IMDb), terwijl de film het verhaal wist samen te vatten tot twee uur en veertien minuten. Op en top een Britse roman: de colleges van Oxford, adembenemende landhuizen, extravagante adellijke figuren, spitse conversaties, sprankelende natuurobservaties. Daarbovenop nog prachtige, gedragen romances (in meerdere betekenissen van het woord), de intrigerende aantrekkingskracht en beknelling van het katholicisme binnen de Bridesheadfamilie, en dat alles overgoten met een melancholische saus (op zoek naar de verloren tijd). Alleen het slot is er wat over. In dit boek vertelt de hoofdpersoon Charles Ryder over zijn relaties met en de herinneringen aan de bewoners van Brideshead. Ik vond het boek vrij pittig om te lezen en het is blijkbaar te subtiel voor mij want ik kon er niet echt van genieten. Volgens mijn wandelvriend Herman (oud leraar Engels!) is het een erg goed boek, misschien is mijn Engels niet goed genoeg. Uitgelezen: zaterdag 29 juli 2009
Evelyn Waugh was a marvellous writer, but one of a sort peculiarly likely to write a bad book at any moment. The worst of his, worse even than The Loved One, must be Brideshead Revisited. But long before the Granada TV serial came along it was his most enduringly popular novel; the current Penguin reprint is the nineteenth in its line. The chief reason for this success is obviously and simply that here we have a whacking, heavily romantic book about nobs... It is as if Evelyn Waugh came to believe that since about all he looked for in his companions was wealth, rank, Roman Catholicism (where possible) and beauty (where appropriate), those same attributes and no more would be sufficient for the central characters in a long novel, enough or getting on for enough, granted a bit of style thrown in, to establish them as both glamorous and morally significant. That last blurring produced a book I would rather expect a conscientious Catholic to find repulsive, but such matters are none of my concern. Certainly the author treats those characters with an almost cringing respect, implying throughout that they are important and interesting in some way over and above what we are shown of them. Brideshead Revisited fulfils the quest for certainty, though the image of a Catholic aristocracy, with its penumbra of a remote besieged chivalry, a secular hierarchy threatened by the dirty world but proudly falling back on a prepared eschatological position, has seemed over-romantic, even sentimental, to non-Catholic readers. It remains a soldier's dream, a consolation of drab days and a deprived palate, disturbingly sensuous, even slavering with gulosity, as though God were somehow made manifest in the haute cuisine. The Puritan that lurks in every English Catholic was responsible for the later redaction of the book, the pruning of the poetry of self-indulgence. Snobbery is the charge most often levelled against Brideshead; and, at first glance, it is also the least damaging. Modern critics have by now accused practically every pre-modern novelist of pacifism, or collaboration, in the class war. Such objections are often simply anachronistic, telling us more about present-day liberal anxieties than about anything else. But this line won’t quite work for Brideshead, which squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe and proceeds to rubbish it accordingly... ‘I have been here before’: the opening refrain is from Rossetti, and much of the novel reads like a golden treasury of neo-classical clichés: phantoms, soft airs, enchanted gardens, winged hosts – the liturgical rhythms, the epic similes, the wooziness. Waugh’s conversion was a temporary one, and never again did he attempt the grand style. Certainly the prose sits oddly with the coldness and contempt at the heart of the novel, and contributes crucially to its central imbalance. "Lush and evocative ... the one Waugh which best expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit." The new novel by Evelyn Waugh—Brideshead Revisited—has been a bitter blow to this critic. I have admired and praised Mr. Waugh, and when I began reading Brideshead Revisited, I was excited at finding that he had broken away from the comic vein for which he is famous and expanded into a new dimension... But this enthusiasm is to be cruelly disappointed. What happens when Evelyn Waugh abandons his comic convention—as fundamental to his previous work as that of any Restoration dramatist—turns out to be more or less disastrous... For Waugh’s snobbery, hitherto held in check by his satirical point of view, has here emerged shameless and rampant... In the meantime, I predict that Brideshead Revisited will prove to be the most successful, the only extremely successful, book that Evelyn Waugh has written, and that it will soon be up in the best-seller list somewhere between The Black Rose and The Manatee. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)10/18, Domaine étranger (1398) — 13 meer Penguin Books (821) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2016) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2020-10) Penguin Modern Classics (821) RBA Narrativa Actual (20) A tot vent (202) Ullstein Taschenbuch (20232) Иллюминатор (42) Is opgenomen inHeeft als proloog (buiten de reeks)Heeft de bewerkingIs verkort inBestudeerd inHeeft als een commentaar op de tekstHeeft als studiegids voor studentenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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