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Bezig met laden... Vrouw en vijand (1984)door Kingsley Amis
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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. Having spent a great deal of time in the company of women, I'm more in favour of this book than some reviewers. Stanley has several women in his life, and would greatly prefer to co-operate with them than contend with them. But being a man of his time and education he hasn't a lot of tools for the task. Also, the women, would often rather fight than actually solve the problems. They have a number of roles they find more comfortable than actually engaging with another human being, just as he has. So, this novel is a report on a mess, just as most of our lives are. ככל שאמיס מזדקן, נושאיו משתנים ומזדקנים אתו. הפעם הוא מטפל בשני נושאים עליזים. סכיזופרניה ואוזלת ידם של הפסיכיאטרים ונשים. סטנלי מאבד את בנו למחלה, את אשתו הראשונה למפיק שתוי ואת השנייה לטרופה הסמוי. המסקנה של הספר - המטורפים האמיתיים של העולם הן הנשים - כגזע. נדיר לקרוא בימים אלה ספר שונא נשים בצורה כה גלויה. כתוב היטב.
Stanley and the Women gets into misogyny fairly early on but gives itself plenty of breathing space for targets other than upper-rniddle-class Englishwomen (which is what the term woman is shorthand for), though where Stanley's life gets fucked up there is often a woman, or else a foreigner, behind it... One infallible test of sanity, says Dr Nash, is being able to laugh at something funny. You can try out your sanity on this book. It is beautifully written, meaning that the dialogue sounds for the most part as though its speakers had never read a book in their lives, and the recit is an exact analogue of somehow getting through the day, fuck it. When are critics going to learn that Augustan elegance may be all right for Church Triumphant satire but won't do for genuine fiction? This is Amis pere at his best. Prijzen
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Comics readers may be familiar with the similar spectacle of Dave Sim, who went off his nut about boys vs. girls in a similar way, but could still write a decent scene and a real human character when he remembered to. ( )