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Cargando... La Caja negra (1986)por Amos Oz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Told in letter form, Black Box focuses on the broken relationship between Ilana and Alex, set in a broken country, Israel, where the deeply flawed personalities of the main characters often seem to reflect the flawed political and cultural structure of Israel. The trigger that starts the novel is Boaz, the violent, unruly teenager son of Ilana and Alex. Ilana in Israel reaches out to her professor ex husband, Alex, to help. Initially recriminations fly back and forth, as do many lies. During the divorce there was even a question mark as to whether Alex is even the father of Boaz, given Ilana's promiscuousness. But whether this is true or not, Alex, not poor, does provide some money to help. Ilana's current very religious, right wing, husband, Michael, senses an opportunity, and demands a huge amount more (close to $200,000), and is given it. Is this some clever tactic from Alex to draw Ilana back into Alex's life, or are there are motives? As the novel develops, everyone slowly changes, and, for Ilana and Alex at least, their lies dissolve and a new, deeper honesty emerges. Much of this honesty involves an analysis of their upbringing, the start of their marriage, and where and why everything went wrong. This brings them closer, and Michael, a rather petty, inconsistent man, is slowly left by the wayside. Eventually Boaz finds peace, maturity and even wisdom, living on the old family estate of his father, and he is joined by Alex, possibly dying of cancer, and Ilana, there to find her own kind of peace, and to look after ailing Alex. From hatred and recriminations, Ilana and Alex now are close, loving, but not necessarily in a romantic way - there is something purer between them, amidst a deeper acceptance of life generally. The novel explores, in minute detail, the way that lives can be burnt from the start, how people deceive and manipulate themselves and each other, and how we can change through circumstances. It plays on how religion can interact with all this, and how Israeli politics of the 1970's was a confusing and developing backdrop to personal lives. Black Box is, at times, deeply moving, funny, thoughtful, real, and extremely closely observed. It is a book one is increasingly drawn into as the letters reveal more of the lives of the main characters. We are forced to question every line, though, given the propensity of characters to lie, and this only makes the novel more interesting. The structure and language of the novel are masterful, as the epistolary format feeds us just the right amount of plot snippets at just the right time, while it also highlights the different voices and forms of communication within it. This book took me a lot longer to finish than I expected... it’s very complex and not an easy read at all. An epistolary novel told in notes and letters between a divorced couple, her new husband, their teenager son, and some other characters, there is a lot going on here. Religious fanaticism, Israeli issues, war, marriage, family... it’s a lot, but it’s so well written, it’s absolutely worth the work. Primo libro letto di Amos Oz, forse non il migliore e comunque scritto in forma strana: tutto in forma epistolare, senza un dialogo se non quello via lettera. Bello lo svolgersi della trama, con Ilana che diviene pagina dopo pagina il protagonista principale della storia per poi rivelarsi all'ultima pagina per quello che rappresenta per i tre uomini della storia (i due mariti ed il figlio del primo). sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Una serie de cartas, cruzadas entre distintos personajes, nos revela el entramado de sus relaciones: los insultos se entrelazan con los halagos, la traicion con la generosidad, el odio con el deseo, sobre un telon de fondo donde destacan las tensiones politicas, etnicas y religiosas de la actual sociedad israeli. Novela sobre la pasion y el fanatismo, La caja negra obtuvo en Francia el premio Femina 1988. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)892.436Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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Rating; Legacy 3.5 epistolary but nothing new and sometimes this doesn't work.
plot: 4
characters: 4, somewhat stereotyped but on purpose????
Readability: 3 nice prose but way to lengthy letters
Achievement: 3
Overall rating 3.5 ( )