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Bezig met laden... Once Two Heroesdoor Calvin Baker
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Once Two Heroesis the story, heart-quickening and tragic, of two Americans called to fight in the Second World War: Mather, a young black man who has grown up in France, and Lewis, the son of a genteel, old, white Mississippi family. Both go to battle full of the best ideas of the world, and prove themselves to be soldiers to be reckoned with. But back home Mather and Lewis learn, each in his own way, that what happened in war was no preparation for the brutal violence of peace. Haunted by the hopes, dreams, and dangerous illusions of America after the war, Once Two Heroesexplores the best and worst of what men do, and the grand forces of the past that prefigure the present. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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We get the life stories of two men, both soldiers in World War II, one a black man and one white, whose lives intersect one Thanksgiving after the war. The narrative builds to the place we don't want it to go and we cannot stop it, and then we have to close the book and try to give it meaning in our lives, when really there is no meaning that can ever suffice.
Do not read this book looking for a happy ending, but rather for another perspective on a history we want to bury or deny but which must always be remembered.
...Mather feels an incantatory power men have felt since time's beginning as the four other men each submit to, or are submersed in, the larger engine of the whole, like pack-hunting animals gathered under a primitive spell whose bonds and tribal affinities can be seen playing out their wanting of blood, but which is not, not ever, understood in plainspoken language or logic of diagram and symbols.
.....events must be interpreted and given meaning, either to fit and be accepted, or else to be rejected from the space of men, and this interpretation reinforcing who and what they are, so it is not the event that makes their culture--anything is liable to happen anywhere at all--but the meaning they give to it, which makes them what they are and gives them their self-imagining. ( )