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Cargando... Frieze (1987)por Cecile Pineda
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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse-artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work-a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Bored with it I read the summary on the back of the book because I didn't feel like starting another chapter, and then it all made sense. You see, the story is about a stonecutter who is recruited to design and execute 120 friezes for a massive temple dedicated to buddha. So, the book is supposed to imitate the 120 friezes with each chapter being a sort of snapshot of the main character's life. After I realized what the author was trying to do, it made a lot more sense. At that point, I started to actually enjoy the novel a bit more. At the end of each chapter, I found myself pausing and imagining the events that took place in that chapter/paragraph as a carving in stone. Or I'd imagine the author was looking at a wall of friezes and inventing the story by examining the depictions. This definitely made the novel more enjoyable to read.
However, it doesn't always work well. Some times, it felt like the author just typed up a couple pages, and then chopped them up into 5-6 chapters for really no apparent reason, except perhaps to simply hit 120 chapters. This lessened my enjoyment because, when 2-3 chapters are all a single conversation, my imaginings of the friezes became obsolete, because each frieze was the same.
Ultimately, I'd label it as interesting. ( )