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Cargando... Una confesión póstuma (1894)por Marcellus Emants
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I think the premise of this book was quite interesting, however, the character was so frustrating and obnoxious I found it utterly impossible to be the least bit sympathetic with him (and this coming from someone who could in fact sympathize with a lot of what he was feeling!), and hence was just very annoyed. That said, I do think it's worth reading. Thirty-five year old Willem Termeer is the narrator of this confession. He tells the reader right away on the first page that he has just murdered his wife. The rest of his "confession" is his decidedly one-sided summation of his life, for Willem assumes his auditor will be "...interested in the course of my development", that he will "...understand how different I seem to myself from the vast majority of people." He then gives a self-serving account of his life from his entry into grade school forward. At times coloured by self loathing, at other times by empty bravado, Termeer shows himself as one of those weak whingeing creatures whom every bully recognizes on sight, and as the one no work team or social group would choose for a member. Throughout his life, he has done nothing but disappoint, often deliberately. He persists in seeing himself as a victim of circumstance, doing nothing to try to alter those circumstances. Why read such a self analysis then? Well as J M Coetzee tells us in his introduction, Marcellus Emants was interested in psychology, in analyzing "the new sciences of heredity and psychopathology to explain human motivation". Coetzee sees Termeer's confession "...as a monument to himself, thereby turning a worthless life into art". No matter how despicable Termeer may have been as a person, no matter how disinclined the reader may be to empathize, Emants has done an excellent job of making the reader feel so strongly about such an odious and inconsequential person, and of having that person reveal himself so convincingly, and it is his writing that is the reward. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Hijo de una madre rencorosa e impasible y de un padre enfermizo e iracundo con gusto por la pornografía, Willem Termeer es el narrador de Una confesión póstuma. Como en Memorias del subsuelo, de Fiódor Dostoyevski, Termeer se presenta como un hombre malo, desagradable y enfermo víctima de su herencia y de la impersonal maquinaria social que lo rodea. Incapaz de guardar su secreto, Termeer decide poner por escrito los hechos que lo han llevado a asesinar a su esposa, pensando que tal vez alguien algún día se verá reflejado en él al leer estas páginas. Con un lenguaje agitado y verborrágico, la confesión comienza con el recuerdo de una de sus primeras y más dolorosas experiencias: el ingreso a la escuela y la sensación de haber sido abandonado como un conejo en una jaula de bestias salvajes. De ahí en adelante las cosas no harán más que empeorar. Clásico de las letras holandesas, Una confesión póstuma fue publicada en Ámsterdam en 1894. Traducida al inglés por J. M. Coetzee en 1975, se presenta en esta edición por primera vez en español. [Descripción del editor]. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Despite all of his singular and cultural differences, which do make for interesting reading, Emants's narrator, Termeer, is a mere lackey to Dostoevsky's Underground Man, not to mention the Russian writer's more masterful—and even more terse—explorations of alienation, misanthropy, and utter annihilation combined with a psychological insight that makes Emants's work, while groundbreaking in its way, read like charcoal sketches held up beside a dizzyingly taut masterpiece. ( )