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Cargando... The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel (2004 original; edición 2005)por Karen Joy Fowler
Información de la obraEl club de lectura Jane Austen por Karen Joy Fowler (2004)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gave it to page 100 before I decided the book was too boring and scattered in focus to go on.. Basically a collection of stories: for each host of the book club meeting we first have to read a flashback story to their adolescence. My how difficult it is to grow up in the sunny state of California in the richest country of the world. Sigh. Their problems did not touch me, ( ) I've read the (very) negative reviews of this (there are many) and I have to say, I think a lot of people just didn't get this book. They wanted it to be plot-driven and fun (as so many Austen take-offs are), but this book is much more character-driven and contemplative. I learned a lot about Jane Austen from it (especially from the back matter) and it was a great way to continue to explore her work. It's also so gratifying for me to read about people who live for and through literature. The characters all seemed real to me. I enjoyed their back stories, their foibles, the glimpses into their psyches. Though not the most enthralling novel, this contains many little everyday life stories that are memorable and full of meaning. To explain my favorite part of the book, I'll have to go into spoiler territory. And, for fun, I decided who each character resembled in the world of Austen: Prudie = Mrs. Bennet. You're not totally stupid, but you're super annoying and married to someone who's probably too good for you. Also, you are way too interested in young men. Jocelyn = Elinor Dashwood. You're so together and sensible. But it seems like you're so worried about other people's happiness that you're going to let your own slip by the wayside. Sylvia = Fanny Price. So annoying. You are not perfect! You try to be good and somehow end up making me really dislike you. Allegra = Marianne Dashwood. Girl, you crazy. Even though you're the life of the party, you seem bound to end up with a dullsville mate. Bernadette = Emma. I know Bernadette is old and Emma is young, but they both think they're the queen and we're the sorry people. Grigg = Henry Tilney. So likable and clever with weird taste in women. (You will notice only one of the characters from my favorite Austen novels, P&P and Persuasion, made it on the list. That's probably why the book got three stars instead of four.) This is another book I wish that there were half star ratings for. I would have given it 3.5 stars. It was a good fun book. The story of five women and one men who meet once a month to discuss the works of Jane Austen. Through the different books and meetings you come to learn about the lives of these characters and the reflections of Jane Austen's work in their lives. A cleverly writen story that shows the classics are modern in so many ways. I found reading this book to be a chore (read it for book club.) The characters are bitchy (god forbid anybody in their lives not read, or not enjoy Jane Austen,) and hard to keep straight. Their stories seem assembled haphazardly, and the perspective switches weirdly between first and third person. It's a miracle I made it through the book. I'm giving it 2 stars instead of 1 because there were a few genuinely interesting anecdotes about the main characters' history, but this book was NOT for me.
The real problem, though, is that the book club remains a convenience for gathering the novel's capsule stories. Fowler does not contrive any pleasing symmetries between her stories and Austen's, and the characters' discussions of Austen's novels are thin and uninteresting. They manage little more than "I think Catherine Moreland's a charming character", versus "She's very, very silly. Implausibly gullible." Fowler may have faith in Austen, but she does not trust her characters to make you interested in their particular readings. And she is certainly not prepared to make these characters as foolish or parti pris as some of the readers whose judgments Austen so mercilessly recorded. If, as a writer, you are going to take on Jane Austen - a novelist whose art, as Thornton Wilder put it, is so consummate that its secret is hidden, impossible wholly to illuminate - you had better make damn sure you are up to the job. Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosDistinciones
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HTML: A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant... .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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