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Cargando... Queen of the Prisons of Greece (World Literature Series) (1976 original; edición 1995)por Osman Lins (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. (could this review be a spoiler?) I enjoyed this book very much at the beginning but by the end I found it hard going. Which I guess is part of the point. But I got worn out with the literary discussion. I think I saw some of the humor but I didn't exactly find it humorous. And I wasn't sure. I think the book he writes about is supposed to be really bad, and some of the joke is all the incredible imagery and careful plotting and profound content he is finding in it. But I wouldn't bet the house on it. Maybe it is just supposed to be "modern" without necessarily being good or bad. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This is the final novel of one of the most innovative, comic Brazilian writers of this century. It takes the form of an anonymous high school science teacher's journal about an unpublished novel written by his deceased lover, a young woman named Julia Marquezim Enone. Her novel's central character, Maria da Franca, is a destitute and mentally unstable woman at odds with the Brazilian social welfare system, from which she is trying to claim benefits for time spent in a psychiatric hospital. The journal represents the science teacher's attempt to understand Julia's novel and, in the process, Julia herself and the relationship they once shared.Rather than providing him with comfort and a better understanding of his beloved, the teacher's explorations create an ever-widening circle of questions and fears about himself, her, and finally any attempt to understand anything about anyone. But the narrator's failures become the reader's comic delights.Reminiscent of Flann O'Brien, Manuel Puig, and Laurence Sterne, with this novel Osman Lins takes his rightful place among the major figures of twentieth-century fiction. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The narrator himself describes the novel on page 45:"At this point I conceive of something unfeasible: a work that would present itself as double, built in layers and purporting to be its own analysis. For example, as if there were no Julia Marquezim Enone or The Queen of the Prisons of Greece, as if the present piece of writing were actually the novel by that name and I myself were a fiction."
Again, on page 96: "The hybrid space, in which a fixed space and a mobile space come together, is more suggestive and intriguing than the option favoring one alternative or the other."
And, on page 149: "the nature of the artistic object, which is never a depository of meaning but rather a detonator of meanings";
And finally, on page 177: If Maria de Franca's disease (here not so much mental as verbal),"making words like before and after impenetrable, tends to dilute the book in time,the occurrence of real historical events--not in the sequence in which they would have taken place but disconnected, loose, contingent upon random encounters with outdated snatches of news." ( )