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Bezig met laden... The Adventures of Veladoor Albert Wendt
Bezig met laden...
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. Abandoned after the end of the sample (which is the first 10% of the book). It's rare for me not to finish a book, even one I don't like, but this style just wasn't for me. I'll try another of his books to see if it suits me better. ( )
Vela is the result of a lifetime’s incubation and a slow rendering that is in debt to both indigenous oral traditions and Western literature. The novel traverses centuries as its narrator-poet makes Vela acutely present – along with Nafunua, the Samoan goddess who brought about peace; Nei, a society that shares a single mind; and Olfact, a society that promotes smell as the channel for human relations. But to reduce the book to a skeletal synopsis is to undermine the scope of Wendt’s achievement: Vela is a sumptuous feast that brings to mind the resonating layers of Dante’s Divine Comedy or Boccaccio’s Decameron. Each line bears the melody of a story told aloud, an infectious fluency that is characterised by the short lines of poetry and the storyteller’s breath in the white space that breaks each line. Samoan words add to the musicality, and while some readers may regret the absence of a glossary for the non-Samoan speaker, the words gradually acquire semantic presence as the narrative proceeds. PrijzenErelijsten
Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)822.914Literature English & Old English literatures English drama 1900- 1900-1999 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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