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Cargando... God's Grace (1982)por Bernard Malamud
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not the sort of thing I usually enjoy, and I didn't. Calvin Cohn, scientist and ex-rabbinical student, is the only human survivor of a nuclear holocaust. Being the protagonist of a novel by a Jewish, male, American, he naturally blames God for wiping out the rest of the human race, and has a big argument with Him about it. God finds a peculiarly apt and very nasty way to teach him a lesson. This satirical fable, Malamud's last completed novel, is very cleverly done, full of references to literature, philosophy, science, and - above all - the Old Testament. The bleak message seems to be that, however sophisticated and enlightened the civilization we build up for ourselves, selfishness and violence will smash it all up again. I'm not sure why he really needs a complicated structure of apocalypse, flood, and talking chimpanzees to demonstrate that, though. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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God's Grace is an apocalyptic tale set in an imaginary time and place. It is an audacious story and probably the author's most controversial work. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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earth. They tore apart my ozone. carbonized my oxygen, acidified my refreshing rain. Now they affront my cosmos. How much shall the Lord endure?" And so the second Flood follows...