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Cargando... Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries) (2013 original; edición 2014)por Jonathan Lethem (Autor)
Información de la obraLos jardines de la disidencia por Jonathan Lethem (2013)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to feel sympathy for the characters or celebrate their zigzag Queens borough lives. I did neither. Still, Lethem adeptly weaves together their inter-generational city stories. And he seasons it all with cultural and political references that help to place everything in space and time. ( ) Remarkable...stunning...written by a true master, Dissident Gardens takes the reader on journey filled with triumph,disaster, family, Communism, and much more through the eyes of an array of characters unrivaled. As with most stories Lethem writes, this takes place in the Bronx, NY and surrounding areas. Lethem is gifted in his ability to create stories that vary from one book to the next, as do the characters, a trait of a master storyteller. This the fourth book of his I read, and when I think one is a favorite, the next one immediately replaces it. In some ways I feel this one is worthy of a Pulitzer if for no other reason than the breadth of story, and rich characters..Outstanding! So I like Jonathan Lethem, but I feel like I didn't do my homework on this one. And I don't like not doing my homework, but I'm also not going to read "Buddenbrooks" right now (maybe over the summer, on a backpacking trip, when I only bring one book with me so it has to be a doozy.) Although I love Lethem's language and sentences and tone and whatnot, the whole "everyone is consumed by their tragic flaw" thing made the book tiresome. And I know that makes me a philistine but it's the end of the school year and I'm tired, and there's only so much literary fiction where nobody comes to a good end one can take, really. Siete meses para leer una novela que no me disgustaba pero que siempre pasaba a segundo lugar por otras. Finalmente terminada. Muchos personajes superfluos. Solo importan Rose, Miriam y Sergius. el resto sobran. Los tres están solos y eso parece el fin de todos los comunistas. Es una historia autobiográfica que de todas formas no termina con esa moralina que parece cubrir casi todo acercamiento al socialismo y comunismo de los norteamericanos. Aún así, se enrolla demasiado y es un poco irregular. Pero está terminada.
These are smart, interesting people, and Lethem’s narrative bounces back and forth through time while keeping his characters smack in the center of the American century. Dissident Gardens is ironic and affectionate at the same time; Lethem skewers everything in sight, but keeps the good heart beating. The book seems to ask: Is there ever an unselfish revolutionary? Dazzled by their own heroic egos, these characters don’t see they are but small players in a larger game called history. Lethem records their moves — sometimes lucky, often nearsighted and inevitably falling short — in a narrative that turns out to be almost realistic. I say almost because “Dissident Gardens” is, in the end, a genre-bender after all: a fairy tale retold through the looking glass. Cicero, an Alice in disguise, is led by Rose the Red Queen to a successful coronation. “But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?” Queen Alice asks in Lewis Carroll’s classic. King Cicero doesn’t ask, because he doesn’t expect people on either side of any disagreement to have anything new to say. Is that a pessimistic view of America, where the real conversation — about race, about class, about the country and its politics — remains to be held? PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Los Jardines de la Disidencia sigue la vida de tres generaciones de neoyorquinos que no responden al prototipo del patriota estadounidense, puesto que son comunistas, hippies y activistas pol#65533;ticos. Rose Zimmer es conocida en Queens como la Reina Roja de Sunnyside por ser una comunista reaccionaria que importuna a familia, vecinos y camaradas pol#65533;ticos con su car#65533;cter feroz y su radical intransigencia. Su hija Miriam, que comparte el car#65533;cter obstinado de su madre, huye de su sofocante influencia para abrazar los albores de la contracultura de la Era de Acuario en Greenwich Village. La vida de estas dos mujeres es el eje central de un desfile de personajes imperfectos e idealistas que luchan por alcanzar el sue#65533;o ut#65533;pico de una Am#65533;rica donde el radicalismo es recibido con desconcierto, hostilidad o indiferencia. A trav#65533;s de sus vidas vemos c#65533;mo un movimiento revolucionario sucede al anterior: el auge comunista de los a#65533;os treinta, la caza de brujas de la era McCarthy, el movimiento en defensa de los derechos civiles, las andrajosas comunas de los setenta y el conflicto sandinista hasta llegar al actual Ocupa Wall Street. En este viaje a lo largo de las d#65533;cadas, la estimulante prosa de Lethem nos recuerda que lo personal puede ser pol#65533;tico, pero que lo pol#65533;tico siempre es personal. #65533;Lethem es tan ambicioso como Mailer, tan divertido como Philip Roth y tan agudo como Bob Dylan [...]. En Los Jardines de la Disidencia se muestra en plena posesi#65533;n de sus facultades como novelista.#65533; Los Angeles Times ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called "as ambitious as [Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylan" (Los Angeles Times), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Rose's influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethem's vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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