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Bezig met laden... Black Mirror (2002)door Gail Jones
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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. Early on I almost gave up on this. I started keeping a list on the endpapers of some of the use of language that particularly irked me. Her language is rendered beautiful by its ornate imprecise superfluity. Overall I disagree with this approach. Language can be beautiful without being overdone. If this book had been a picture I would have hated it. Far from adding clarity, her overuse of words led to ambiguity which I do not believe was intentional. I had never heard of the well-known Gail Jones until I went to see her talk with Coetzee and others recently. Her voice was odd and not entirely pleasing to me. Yet I wanted to listen. Strangely, that seems to reflect her style of writing, if this book is to be the judge. rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/black-mirror-by-gail-jone... Black Mirror is Gail Jones's first novel, which followed two collections of short fiction. Briefly, an elderly and lonely artist in London is telling her biographer her stories before she dies. The biographer and artist grew up in the same outback mining town in Western Australian, albeit in different generations, but that does not mean their stories will not interweave. Another brilliant work by Gail Jones, whose gifts for language enrich the story. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
'I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.' The award-winning novel from Gail Jones Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered in the seventies when she became something of a cult figure on the London art scene. She now lives as a recluse in Hampstead, London. And she is dying. Anna Griffin is the young woman commissioned to write a biography of Victoria's life. In many ways their lives strangely intersect, since they grew up in the same mining town and share preoccupations with underground spaces, deserts and the many forms of grief. In a compelling double narrative, Gail Jones tracks Victoria's past as it intertwines with Anna's life. The stories Victoria tells enable both women to enter into new forms of sympathy and understanding. Elegant, enthralling, and emotionally charged, Black Mirror is both a novel of love and family mystery, and a meditation on the nature of artistic vision and obsession. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I had never heard of the well-known Gail Jones until I went to see her talk with Coetzee and others recently. Her voice was odd and not entirely pleasing to me. Yet I wanted to listen. Strangely, that seems to reflect her style of writing, if this book is to be the judge.
rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/black-mirror-by-gail-jone... ( )