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Cargando... The Leper's Companions (1999)por Julia Blackburn
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A somewhat surreal tale of a pilgrimage taken in 1410 by a small group of pilgrims-a leper, a priest, two women, and the omniscient narrator. Their story of their trip to the Holy Land is interspersed with their own stories, of tough lives in medieval Europe. I’m sure I missed many of the illusions and images which seem both mythical and fantastic. ( ) I found this book disappointing. While the book deals with themes of loss, grief, and redemption, the writing seems lifeless. Even though there are plenty of imaginative scenes and situations which might, in another writers hands, evoke sadness or empathy or even horror, I was unmoved by the authors dry recounting of events. What magic is there becomes bleached by a kind of deadpan understated style. I stopped reading right in the middle of the book, a very rare thing for me to do. The book has good moments but overall it seems emotionally flat to me.
[H]er approach to narrative has been elliptical, impressionistic, even surreal, blending historical fact with imaginative flight, melting one level of fictional reality into another, offering a dazzling abundance of detail while providing little in the way of context and explanation. . . Among much else, one comes away from this book with a strong sense of how deeply grounded the spiritual is in the physical, and of the degree to which modern comforts and conveniences, by insulating us from nature, also distance us from God.
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming pain. The seamless narrative lands her in a medieval seaside village where mermaids wash ashore, devils haunt in packs, a child is born with the head of a fish, and where one day, quite out of nowhere, there emerges a sage and wandering leper. The leper leads a small group of the villagers, including the protagonist, on a journey to Jerusalem, a harrowing pilgrimage that compels all the travelers to confront their deepest selves. Exquisite and lyrical, The Lepers Companions is a heart-rending tale by one of our most fiercely original storytellers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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