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Cargando... The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994)por John Updike
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A collection of high quality stories, kind of autobiography told from a mature, experienced, yet still wondrous perspective. ( ) Updike's stories are beautifully written, and the details of life presented here are touchingly real. That said, the characters in many of the stories are similar enough, and the themes similar enough, that it wasn't as compelling as his other work which I've read, and there wasn't enough variety as I'd like in a short story collection, even one from a single author. I did enjoy many of the stories, but I think each might have been more powerful if stumbled across in the midst of other authors or as narratives within a larger framework/novel. Real as they were, I was often left wishing for more. Another great collection from Updike. There were two stories I just couldn't get into so I skipped them. Several stories dealing with an elderly or recently deceased mother were especially touching, I couldn't help but wonder if these were actually Updike and his own mother. Several phrases from the book that really stuck with me- 'He had come to see that the heart, likea rubber ball, loses bounce, and eventually goes dead.' 'Time takes all.' 'Nobody belongs to us, except in memory.' Kreuzfahrt von John Updike ist ein weiteres dieser Mini Bücher. Es enthält 4 Erzählungen, von denen zwei von einem Ehepaar handeln, sie deutlich jünger als er, die Italien und Irland bereisen. Interessanterweise habe ich das Buch kurz vor meinem Besuch in Irland gelesen. Mir hat besonders gefallen, wie treffend die Beziehungen der Menschen dargestellt wurden - gute Beobachtungsgabe.
A WRITER as prolific and variously gifted as John Updike is bound, eventually, to frustrate readers. How does one absorb a body of work that includes 16 novels, 6 volumes of poetry, 5 fat compilations of essays and reviews, a memoir, a play, 4 books for children and now -- after a pause of 7 years -- his 11th collection of short stories? Were all this writing mediocre, one might still wonder at its mere volume. What is perhaps more striking is that so much of it is good, even dazzling. Not among the best of Updike's collections, but even the duller stories yield extraordinary pleasures of language and perception.
Lo que queda por vivir es esa etapa de la vida que, una vez superada la madurez, se abre por delante de todo ser humano en un momento crucial de su paso por el mundo. John Updike se aventura con humor y buen animo en ese tiempo y nos revela, a traves de sus personajes, el intimo placer de vivir, desde la perspectiva de la experiencia, el conocimiento y la distancia, los hechos mas corrientes, desde las veleidades del amor y del sexo hasta la muerte de los padres o el nacimiento de los nietos. A medida que su propio fin se acerca, esos nuevos heroes cotidianos se adelantan a los acontecimientos como si todo lo presintieran con magica fragilidad. La memoria aun vivida y la extrana percepcion de las cosas lo recubren todo de una hermosa patina y el pasado va adquiriendo cierta grandeza. Pese a que, como siempre, las parejas se peleen, los amantes se abandonen, los ninos alboroten y los hogares esten ya marcados por la usura del tiempo, Updike crea un mundo donde la inocencia se empena en subsistir y los refrescantes inicios parecen imponerse a las inevitables perdidas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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