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Cargando... What Belongs to You (2016)por Garth Greenwell
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) RachelGMB | Dec 27, 2023 |  However, as this initiating event fell further into the past, the book felt more real to me. There is plenty of emotional truth to be had in the narrator's reflections on his earlier life, and particularly in his struggles to find meaning in his adult life and his guilty suspicion that by living in Europe he might be running away from something. The theme of desire, which runs throughout the novel, is developed very well. The writing is somewhat patchy, with mostly very evocative, powerful writing interspersed with rather clunky lines and a self-consciously literary style which I found distracting. The very long paragraph I found particularly distracting, because it wasn't actually one paragraph but just a bunch of consecutive paragraphs with the line breaks and indentation removed, so I didn't read it all in one sitting, but actually stopped at an obvious paragraph end (when he came back to the present momentarily from his reminiscence) and did something else before coming back to it. Nevertheless, I found this a very enjoyable read and although it is less than 200 pages, it can be read quite slowly and really savoured. (  ) robfwalter | Jul 31, 2023 | fleshed | Jul 16, 2023 | The novel is written in first person, and the name of its narrator is never revealed, an accomplishment seldom achieved in first-person narratives. The story is set in Bulgaria,a pathetic yet sometimes beautiful country which has been dominated and ruled by foriegn nations throughout most of its existence. This setting itself serves as a sort of character in the novel. The various locales and surroundings of each of the novel’s episodes impact what occurs in the setting as well as the moods and behaviors of the characters. In fact, Bulgaria itself is a country that has not yet achieved its own sovereignty, its own national identity, just as the two primary characters in this book cannot fully achieve their fullness, their independence from one another. The narrator of the book finds a young man, Mitko in a rest room frequented by men looking to hook up with other men. It is the reason the narrator was in the rest room and Mitko is the one to sell his services to the older man. The business relationship between the two men quickly grows into something bigger, yet is doomed to never be the deep and meaningful relationship the narrator longs for, even though he himself does not recognize that longing. It is a powerful book, an emotional journey into desire, obsession and yearning, where neither man can admit his own desire for commitment to and feelings for the other man. To say that the book ends on a tragic way is not to spoil or reveal its ending because the book is a tragic story all along. The two meet in tragic desperation, one for money, the other for companionship. The affair and relationship is misbegotten from the outset and can never grows beyond each man’s inability to be other than who they are. This is not a standard romance, nor a tragic love story. It is a deep psychological exploration of two very different characters and their impacts on each other’s lives. Most books about male relationships with other men are, surprisingly, both written by and read by women. As such, the stories they portray can only be what the female authors imagine a homosexual relationship to be. When an author is both male and gay himself, he is able to portray a mood, feeling tone and level of authenticity not possible from authors lacking those qualifications. Greenwell is qualified to tell a story like this, not just because he a a gay male writer himself, but also because he is an extremely talented writer with the skill and experience only an experienced poet is able to display. ( ) PaulLoesch | Apr 2, 2022 |  ) Jeremias75 | Jan 3, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Con un inusual virtuosismo estilístico y una cautivadora potencia emocional, esta novela sobre el deseo y sus consecuencias está destinada a convertirse en un clásico. El espléndido debut de Greenwell ha sido merecedor del British Book Prize, nominado al National Book Award y seleccionado como uno de los mejores libros del año por los principales medios de comunicación estadounidenses. En los baños públicos del Palacio Nacional de Cultura de Sofía, un profesor de literatura estadounidense conoce a Mitko, un joven magnético a quien paga por sexo. Movido por un deseo incontenible, regresa a Mitko una y otra vez tratando de descifrar la historia personal del joven, marcada por los excesos y la incomprensión de un mundo que apenas le presta atención, pero solo consigue verse atrapado en una relación donde la ternura y el anhelo dan paso a la humillación y al miedo. Mientras lucha por reconciliarse con sus propios sentimientos, una noticia inesperada le fuerza a evocar su traumática adolescencia y la tensa relación con su padre, en una América profunda que tiene similitudes desconcertantes con esta Bulgaria gris y decadente donde ha decidido instalarse. Lo que te pertenece es una historia indeleble que se mueve por los sombríos rincones de una sociedad marcada por el comunismo y que ahonda en las cicatrices y las culpabilidades del pasado, esas marcas que pueden decidir quiénes somos y cómo amamos. Críticas: «Greenwell es comparable a James Baldwin, Alan Hollinghurst, Virginia Woolf y W.G. Sebald. Una y otra vez se llamará a Lo que te pertenece la gran novela gay de nuestra época.» «La novela de Greenwell impresiona por muchas razones [...]. Pero adquiere un poder diferente por su desasosegada atmósfera de inestabilidad psíquica, de confesión y penitencia, del reconocimiento de fuerzas complejas y apenas dominadas que quedan más allá del control consciente incluso de un novelista tan talentoso como este.» «Destinada a convertirse en un clásico [...].Lo que te pertenece se sitúa de forma natural al lado de grandes obras sobre peligrosas obsesiones sexuales como Muerte en Venecia de Thomas Mann y Lolita de Nabokov.» «En la brillante primera novela de Garth Greenwell, el viejo modo de contar se convierte en algo nuevo y se transforma en puñetazo [...] En su voz hay maestría y fluidez. Parece poseer una habilidad innata para hechizar al lector.» «Escrita con una reflexiva y espléndida prosa, es a la vez un logro formal e íntimo, elevado pero personal, perspicaz pero muy real. Es la mejor novela que he leído en años.» «La valentía emocional se funde con una extraordinaria sensibilidad hasta alcanzar el temblor del arrepentimiento [...]. Al final, una novela como esta no puede albergar otro propósito que su perfecta articulación de No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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