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Bezig met laden... The new life : a novel (origineel 1994; editie 1998)door Orhan Pamuk, Geli G
Informatie over het werkHet nieuwe leven door Orhan Pamuk (1994)
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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. Hasta el inesperado momento en que abrió el libro. la vida de Osman se reducía a asistir a clases de Ingeniería y regresar a la casa que compartía con su madre. La lectura y un tiroteo en las calles nevadas de Estambul convirtieron al joven en un viajero nocturno cuya existencia nunca volvió a ser la misma.Osman recorre un inmenso país acompañado de una mujer que. por azar. dejó el libro sobre la mesa de un café. Una mujer que ama a otro hombre. El mismo a quien están buscando. el único que comprende el poder del libro. La lectura de un libro cambia la vida del joven protagonista de esta novela, un estudiante llamado Osman, hasta alejarlo radicalmente de su anterior identidad. Poco después se enamorará de la luminosa y esquiva Canan, presenciará el intento de asesinato de un pretendiente rival y abandonará a su familia para vagar sin rumbo por un paisaje nocturno de cafés, y apocalípticas estaciones de autobús. El resultado es el maridaje fabuloso de un thriller intelectual y una sofisticada novela de amor. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted from his old life and identity. Within days he has fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessed the attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken his family to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape of traveler's cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks. As imagined by Pamuk, the result is a wondrous marriage of the intellectual thriller and high romance. Translated from the Turkish by Guneli Gun. "[A] weird, hypnotic new novel...It veers from intellectual conundrums in the Borges vein to rapturous lyricism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez."--Wall Street Journal Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)894.3533Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 1850–2000LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Repeatedly, Pamuk seems to side-step any straightforward interpretation of the book, allowing the plot to shift directions unpredictably whenever we seem to be getting close to some kind of resolution. It’s a sweetly-ironic account of young love, a study of how conspiracies and counter-conspiracies work and of how ready young people are to allow themselves to be influenced by ideas that promise to bring an escape from the everyday, a look at how the power of an idea can become detached from its originator’s intentions when it is put into a book, and it's often also a gently satirical look back at life in provincial Turkey a few decades ago. And a nostalgic homage to obsolete Turkish brand names, overnight buses, rail travel, bad films and the low-grade children’s literature of the author’s youth. But it also brings in Dante, Rilke, and a whole bunch of other apparently incongruent threads, so you need to keep your wits about you.
Puzzling, but often quite captivating. If you are looking for a book about how many angels can dance on a candy-wrapper, this is the one. ( )