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Cargando... The Bass Saxophone (1977 original; edición 1985)por Josef Škvorecký (Autor)
Información de la obraEl saxofón bajo por Josef Škvorecký (1977)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Storie con il jazz dentro, nel contenuto e nella forma. Una scrittura che nel primo racconto si fa piena di improvvisazioni e divagazioni e nel secondo lavora sul timbro e il colore. Ottima scoperta. ( ) -Ma è la mia musica- dissi - e non rinuncerei al jazz neanche per una rivoluzione mondiale. - Langston Hughes Il sax basso... avete mai visto un sax basso? Lo avete mai sentito suonare? Io no, mai, non prima di aver letto il racconto omonimo. Beh, il sax basso ha DAVVERO qualcosa di affascinante, accattivante! Detto questo, il merito maggiore di questo libro è stato farmi capire che il jazz in Cechia, fin dai tempi del Protettorato nazi, è sempre stato La musica della Libertà. Per il resto aggiungo soltanto che avrei preferito meno virgole, punti e virgola, incisi, digressioni e parentesi: sono risultate davvero ubriacanti! Consists of a lengthy preface, The Red Music, and two novellas - Emoke and then The Bass Saxophone. I found the Red Music too jazzy, although the insight that jazz was an enemy to both Nazis and Communists was interesting. Emoke is a wistful and poingnant story. However, the ending - 20 questions on the return train trip without Emoke did not seem to contribute anything to the story. The Bass Saxophone had an interesting premise and occassional interesting lines, but did not resonate with me. Overall an uneven collection with flashes of brillance. Two novellas. Emoke is a young Hungarian widow. The narrator meets her in strange Czech holiday camp and falls in love. An elegy for a lost time and a lost woman. Beautiful. The Bass Saxophone is set in occupied Czechoslovakia. The 18 year-old narrator is a saxophone player in a jazz band. Jazz is forbidden by the Nazis, but survives in the ghettos, the occupied countries and even in the German army. It's a sign of hope, of individuals resisting tyranny. Svorecky is writing in the late sixties, when jazz is banned again, by another totalitarian government. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise "The Bass Saxophone"brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas. In "Emoke," which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy. In "The Bass Saxophone" a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz - the "forbidden music" - into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results. Written with the lyrical intensity of a great jazz performance, these two extraordinary novellas are among Skvorecky's finest works. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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