Daniela Kapitáňová
Autor de Samko Tale's Cemetery Book
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Daniela Kapitáňová
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Kapitáňová, Daniela
- Nombre legal
- Kapitáňová, Daniela
- Otros nombres
- Tále, Samko (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-06-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Slovakia
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 18
- Popularidad
- #630,789
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 9
- Idiomas
- 5
This is my first ever experience with Slovakian literature and it’s really an original, interesting read. Samko’s peculiar language, meticulous but very limited and full of repetition, is the driving force of this slim novel, and Kapitanova does a great job of bringing it to life. It’s the same sort of quality you can find in books like The curious incident of the dog in the night –time, Everything is illuminated and Montecore, but with a flavor all of it’s own.
Samko’s unprocessed racism and homophobia , and his constant satisfied claims that he acted just like everybody else when it came to passing judgement or spreading gossip, gives us an image of the society he lives in. He’s a total conformist, but there’s also reason to his longing back to communist times. For him, and for the bitter ex-party big shot Gunar Karol, things were really better then.
It’s very clever how Kapitanova lets Samko tell another story than he thinks he’s telling, how the reader connects the dots in his stories that he himself is missing, but how she never sells him out for a laugh. Samko Tále is not a likeable fellow, but he’s human and a product of his environment. And his strange book is both crudely funny and sad. I’ll look out for more books by this writer.… (más)