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Bezig met laden... De letterdodersclubdoor Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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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. After finishing this book, I'm left slightly puzzled (not being clued into the philosophical and literary puzzles littered throughout) but also in awe of Krzhizhanovsky's skill as a writer. His brand of surrealism is a masterly foil for his thoughts, vision and humour. If one can squeeze 3 or 4 short stories as a subtext of a major plot to explain the subtle power of words...wow. ( ) An interesting conceit, but I suspect the whole thing went over my head: are the stories meant to be related in any way? Are the story-tellers being characterized by their stories, or not? Exactly where is the irony here? The introduction tells us that K was deeply concerned with the idea of the literary concept, and the tension between the purity of the concept and the fact that literature is only literature once it has been exuded into the world, usually in book form. That's interesting, and while the Letter Killers Club is obviously tied to this, I had a great deal of trouble working out what the individual stories-- meta-theatricality, a medievalist novella, early dystopia, extended fable, and Roman fable--have to do with this theme. In fact, the more I think about it, the happier I am with the idea that the individual stories (all very entertaining and interesting) really don't have much to do with the interesting but not entertaining frame. I'd love for someone to convince me otherwise. An absolutely brilliant frame story where the connections and correspondences between stories and the frame itself are multifaceted and frustratingly complex. The ingenuity, variety, and wit on display are dazzling. The implicit critiques of not only Bolshevism but modernism are withering. Like the Canterbury Tales in reverse, this one ends in spring--spring rendered as winter's "death agony." It's really more a collection of short stories more than a novel in a framework of being told as part of a series of club meetings. Krzhizhanovsky is a masterful storyteller. The images he paints and the witticisms sprinkled throughout his work is absolutely original and engaging. His insights (in some cases sadly) are as relevant today as when he wrote them. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Writers are professional killers of conceptions. The logic of the Letter Killers Club, a secret society of "conceivers" who commit nothing to paper on principle, is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday they meet in a fire-lit room hung with blank black bookshelves to present their "pure and unsubstantiated" conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a medieval merry cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men's minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. The overarching scene of this short novel is set in Soviet Moscow, in the ominous 1920s. Known only by pseudonym, like Chesterton's anarchists in fin-de-sic̈le London, the Letter Killers are as mistrustful of one another as they are mesmerized by their despotic president. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is at his philosophical and fantastical best in this extended meditation on madness and silence, the word and the soul unbound"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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