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Spill Simmer Falter Wither por Sara Baume
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015 original; edición 2015)

por Sara Baume (Autor)

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"This captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume's "astonishing power with language" and praised it as "a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite." It is also a moving depiction of how -- over the four seasons echoed in the title -- a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves."--… (más)
Miembro:burritapal
Título:Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Autores:Sara Baume (Autor)
Información:Tramp Press (2015), 216 pages
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Valoración:*****
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither por Sara Baume (2015)

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Hij rent, en hij rent, en hij rent.
  ADBO | Mar 3, 2024 |
This was amazing and beautiful and so, so hard to read. Not the writing, that was flawless. But again, the story and the pain of the protagonist just made me squirm and almost itch with discomfort. Poor bastard. I gotta read something a bit fluffy now and give my psyche a break. ( )
  beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |
“My sadness isn’t a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.”

This is the story of a man and his dog, but unlike many animal-related novels, it is also dark and sad. It is told in present tense in four parts, one per season. The man and dog are outcasts. They have had bad experiences. The man lives alone in a run-down house near the sea. After a traumatic event, they embark on a journey.

The dialogue consists of the man talking to the dog, telling the dog of his life. The reader gradually gains an understanding of the man’s sorrow and anger.

“Now I glance at the side of my own face in the mirror’s foreground, and I wonder have we grown to resemble one another, as we’re supposed to. On the outside, we are still as black and gnarled as nature made us. But on the inside, I feel different somehow. I feel animalised. Now there’s a wildness inside me that kicked off with you.”

The writing is lyrical. The tone is bleak. I would not recommend it for anyone suffering from depression. I admire the writing style and plan to read more of Baume’s work.
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  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |
I always felt I was not part of this strange cruel world, that I was not part of the strange cruel human race. I identify with the Animals and the plants of this Earth more than with anything else. But I don't have a hunchback and while I have mental illness, I have intelligence. A man who is shunned by society and has developmental delay adopts a one-eyed dog, probably a victim of cruelty. The dog becomes his whole life and, when OneEye bites another dog, a woman sics the Animal Control Officer on him. To save OneEye, he leaves his house, and with no one to advocate for him, or look out for him, he spirals down and down. The saddest book ever, and yet the most beautiful book, ever. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
This novel tells the story of Ray, a older middle aged man who has lived alone his entire life. As he describes himself, he is something of an ogre--large, intimidating, ugly. He lives alone in his father's house, his father having recently died when the novel begins. Ray sees a poster for dog adoption at a nearby shelter and he sees a poster of badly wounded mutt with only one eye--what will become the dog's name, One Eye--and Ray seemingly uncharacteristically adopts One Eye. Ray is emotionally galvanized by this change in his life, all his years of loneliness and shame suddenly funnelled into his relationship with One Eye. Meanwhile, One Eye himself is constant conflict and crisis with his nature, for he was raised to fight badgers (apparently a bloodsport in Ireland and the UK), which is how he lost his eye amongst other wounds. The bond between man and dog tighten and when they are threatened, Ray takes them on the road.

This is a very interesting novel with some beautiful passages--truly, at times the writing is quite poetic; it is tactile, fanciful, imaginative, and inventive in its language, particularly in the descriptions of nature (plants, bugs, animals).

My only issue with this book was the narrative voice. It is written from Ray's perspective with an indirect narrative. Given all we come to learn and know about Ray, the voice of the narrator at times seems too sophisticated or too cynical. He portrays himself as quite helpless and indeed we suspect at times his mental state is not good. Those aspects of his life and personality ring true, but there is a discordancy for me at times between the voice and the character. It's possible the author is suggesting there is more depth and complexity to the character than meets the eye, but I don't she achieves that through the narrative. It's his personal ruminations and repetitions that convey that vulnerability. ( )
  JoelGladstone | Jun 29, 2022 |
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In many ways, Baume’s book resembles another debut novel, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). Like Ray, Haddon’s protagonist has a single father who’s concealed crucial details of his mother’s death from his son. The unexpected intervention of an unassuming dog helps both characters find their way to a better understanding of their families and themselves. But where Curious Incident takes its narrative cues from a logical, rule-bound perspective on an overwhelming reality, Spill Simmer Falter Wither does the opposite. Baume’s novel revels in aesthetic leaps and dives, embracing the poetry of sensory experience in all its baffling beauty from the title onward.
añadido por smasler | editarThe Atlantic, Amy Weiss-Meyer (May 8, 2016)
 
Ray, a disabled man, adopts One Eye, a rescue dog injured while badger baiting, in this debut novel.

We get to know Ray as he speaks to One Eye: “I’m fifty-seven. Too old for starting over, too young for giving up.” We learn he leaves his lonely home on the coast of Ireland once a week to visit the post office and the grocery store. He used to attend Mass, but he hasn’t been lately. He’s a reader and uses the “mobile library.” Ray is alone and both appears and feels different than other people. He tells One Eye, “Sometimes I see the sadness in you, the same sadness that’s in me….My sadness isn’t a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog.” In another passage he explains, “The nasturtiums have it figured out, how survival’s just a matter of filling the gaps between sun up and sun down.”
añadido por smasler | editarKirkus Reivews (Jan 1, 2016)
 
This fine debut novel, originally published by the independent Irish publisher Tramp Press, now in a Heinemann paperback edition, and longlisted for this year’s Guardian first book award, is a fascinating portrait of the friendship a man develops with his dog and the companionship he also finds in books. (“I longed to be left to my books,” he reminisces. “I wish you could understand when I read to you,” he tells his dog.) The man and dog are both outsiders in a claustrophobic coastal community and both are weighed down by fear and sadness.
añadido por smasler | editarThe Guardian, Anita Sethi (Sep 13, 2015)
 
Baume is not one of those storytellers who supply the entire picture. She drops clues and leaves gaps. You deduce that the narrator’s name is Ray, that his late father was Robin. The action begins in coastal east Co Cork, perhaps near the oil refinery at Whitegate, before narrator and dog are forced by local misunderstanding or mishap to take to the road as fugitives. Ray includes his phone number in the novel, but I was afraid to ring it. Baume writes him so persuasively that I felt he would answer.
So confident is this extraordinary debut that the reader doesn’t notice how much of it is narrated in the second person. The “you” intensifies a tone of great intimacy and tact. It’s impossible to write about a “you” without revealing whole reservoirs about the “I”, one of fiction’s loveliest paradoxes.
añadido por smasler | editarThe Irish Times, Joseph O'Conner (Feb 7, 2015)
 

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"This captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume's "astonishing power with language" and praised it as "a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite." It is also a moving depiction of how -- over the four seasons echoed in the title -- a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves."--

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