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Cargando... Across the Bridge (1993)por Mavis Gallant
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There is something very elusive and magical about Mavis Gallant's style. It seems to me that Gallant perfected the use of free indirect discourse in discussing familial groups, a narrative style that links her to other (mostly women) writers all the way back to Jane Austen. Gallant moves in and out of characters' points of view with effortless ease, like a drone that can situate itself anywhere in a scene including the inner souls of the characters, and while doing so, she also mysteriously establishes a group awareness among the characters, of shared thoughts and values...while at the same time also allowing for an ironic exchange between herself and her reader to take place. It's remarkable. Each story is more like a journey around an old house than it is like reading, and you're constantly surprised by what is around the corner. Nowhere is her mastery more apparent imo than in the story "Dede," collected here, where all kinds of random facts and events are built up slowly into a fictional truth where nothing is said and yet everything is revealed. ( ) This is one of those books where I can appreciate the craftsmanship and fine skill of the storywriting, but a year after reading it I remember nothing of the stories or the characters. I wish I could appreciate the stories as much as the critics do. I think I would have thought better of this volume had I read it when I was a young man perusing different writing styles while trying to develop my own. The stories are mostly set in France during a period of mannered and careful courtships. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A New York Times Best Book of the Year: Short stories centered around a French Canadian family that relocates to Paris in the years before WWII. One of the greatest strengths of Mavis Gallant's writing is her ability to distill a character's emotions into a simple moment--a lingering glance or an unuttered word. Her flair for detail is everywhere in evidence in Across the Bridge, studies of Montreal and Paris over the last century. The primary focus of this story collection is the Carettes, a family of French Canadians who relocate to Paris before World War II. The two daughters, Marie and Berthe, could not be more different: Marie is traditional and quiet while Berthe is strong willed and open minded. But as they grow together, the two learn how much they truly have in common. Accompanying these stories of the Carettes are tales of growth and isolation at home and abroad, including one of a rebellious French-speaking Canadian girl growing up in the Anglophone area of the city. Another entry is focused on an anthropologist who, on a trip to a small country, finds a group of people who speak a language no one has ever heard before. Unfortunately, when he announces his discovery, no one believes him. Gallant writes "elegant, witty tales of place and person" and cannily observes small domestic moments as her characters create and destroy the illusions in their lives (Library Journal). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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