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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Did not like this so much. I'm surprised since I really enjoyed The Life of Pi. It felt like the author was trying to hard to be abstract or obscure. There was not enough interesting in the way of plot, character development or the use of language to hold my interest. I finally did speed reading to the end where I was so disappointed that the body of the book had so little to do with the ending. ( ) I fell in love with all aspects of the book. The narrative (novel in novel), the reference to the author's attempts at writing two books in one (flip book), the taxidermist (including the choice of the profession and the details of it), the veiled background of holocaust, the anthropomorphism - the monkey and the donkey (simply adorable), their attempt at describing a banana, ..... And the end, what an end it was! Was numbed by it. For half an hour could not get out of the chair I was reading it in. Thought I was hit by a cannon-ball. One of the best I have read. Reading this gives me a headache, I guess I am not smart enough to understand it. I find the last part of the book - Gustav's games - the best. At least I can understand them and they make you think about what you will do in those difficult situations, which were probably similar to what the persecuted Jews went through during the Holocaust. I'm shocked. In the beginning I thought this would be a book about a writer who moves with his wife to another country in hope of starting a new life. But it turned out to be much more than that and I only realized that in the very end. Things start to get dark and sad. I'd describe this book precisely with those words: dark and sad. The Holocaust is not just something that happened in the past, it's also a way to remember that Humans have dark minds and are capable of anything to defend what they think is right. I'm probably not making much sense but this book is a must read for those who like Holocaust themed books.
I'm sorry, but this allegory is no "Animal Farm" or "Watership Down." It's a cloying episode of "Winnie the Pooh" In Which Piglet and Rabbit Are Hacked Apart and Eaten. Martel's attempt to represent 6 million Jews with a pleasant donkey and a friendly monkey is just well-meaning sentimentality dressed up with postmodern doodads. "Beatrice and Virgil" does little to bring us closer to appreciating the plight of those victims or to fathoming the cruelty of their murderers. Whatever "artful metaphor" Martel began with, it ends up skinned and stuffed -- not alive, not even lifelike. Mr. Martel’s new book, “Beatrice and Virgil,” unfortunately, is every bit as misconceived and offensive as his earlier book was fetching. It, too, features animals as central characters. It, too, involves a figure who in some respects resembles the author. It, too, is written in deceptively light, casual prose... Nonetheless, his story has the effect of trivializing the Holocaust, using it as a metaphor to evoke “the extermination of animal life” and the suffering of “doomed creatures” who “could not speak for themselves.” As the Holocaust has forever recast our understanding of humanity and historiography, so might Beatrice & Virgil, which ingeniously ruptures the division between worlds real and imagined, forcing us to reconsider how we think of documentary writing. Forget what this book is “about”: Yann Martel's new novel not only opens us to the emotional and psychological truths of fiction, but also provides keys to open its fictions ourselves, and to become, in some way, active participants in their creation. At the end, author Henry develops some "games", 12 questions posing moral quandaries: would you allow your son to endanger his life to try to save the rest of the family? If you knew people were about to be killed and you couldn't stop it, would you warn them? If only Martel had bothered to dramatise any of these dilemmas, he might have produced a novel that didn't show the limits of representation quite so painfully. Beatrice and Virgil is a chilling addition to the literature about the horrors most of us cannot imagine, and will stir its readers to think about the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink and the amplitude of our capacity to survive. PremiosDistinciones
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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