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Cargando... How Far Can You Go? (edición 1981)por David Lodge (Autor)
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O David Lodge habituou-me a bons livros e este não foi excepção. Este é um bom livro, mas achei que lhe faltava qualquer coisa. Está muito bem escrito, com um vasto leque de personagens, todas elas bem definidas. O que é que faltou? Um plot. Se isto fosse uma biografia de um grupo de pessoas estaria tudo bem, mas sendo um romance faltou algo. Habitualmente, os livros de David Lodge lêm-se depressa porque as histórias são cativantes e a sua escrita é simples, directa e rápida; no caso de How Far Can You Go?, Até Onde Se Pode Ir?, na versão portuguesa, se não fosse pela escrita teria demorado bastante mais tempo a terminar isto. Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society - the appearance of the pill, the disappearance of Hell and the advent of COC (Catholics for an Open Church). It was inevitable that things would change radically. But how far could it go? How far could they go? And where would it all end? Find out in this razor-sharp novel of satiric insight and comic despair. Le diable fait de nouveau irruption en littérature. Si David Lodge a revêtu l'habit infernal dans ce roman écrit en 1980, c'est pour poser quelques questions dérangeantes. Car le diable, c'est l'esprit qui nie, celui qui doute, qui regarde nos actions à la loupe pour en voir les failles et les ridicules. Avec son scalpel, son bistouri et son microscope, David Lodge dissèque, avec un plaisir certain, le grand corps de l'Eglise des années 50 et 60. Pour ce faire, il observe de près, de très près même, un petit groupe d'étudiants catholiques anglais et les chemins qu'ils suivent. Par quel miracle parvient-il à s'introduire dans tant de lits et dans tant d'âmes, comment s'y prend-il pour reconstituer avec une telle force les moindres détails d'une époque et d'un milieu ? My first Lodge and a disappointing one. Troubled, rather sombre and slow.Not the Lodge I later came to know and whom i so deeply admire.Translated by my former teacher Johan Kuin, who was such an enthousiastic teacher on the School for Librarians.A deeply devouted catholic, who , immacutely dressed and married, couldn't see much in the adventures of Lodge's heroes. Compare this one to The British Museum Is falling down, who deals a bit withe same object, but has so much more spirit.But who am I compared to Anthony Burgess , who put this one with his best 99 novels of the 20th century. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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How far could they go? On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society. And with the advent of COC (Catholics for an Open Church), the appearance of the pill and the disappearance of hell, it was difficult for Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the others not to rupture their spiritual virginity on their way from the fifties to the seventies. How far did they go? Find out in this razor-sharp novel ablaze with mordant insight and comic despair. 'Brilliant and intricate black comedy' - Time Out. 'Huge, bitterly funny and superbly presented montage of the false nostrums that assailed Christianity like worms' - Sunday Times. 'Hilarious ... a magnificent book' - Graham Greene. 'Funny, sad, knowledgeable' - Irish Times. WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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David Lodge writes with sympathy and experience about the confrontation that cradle Catholics found themselves engulfed in, as reform and revised ideas of faith took hold.