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Cargando... Ojo de gato (1992)por Margaret Atwood
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Ich hatte mehr von diesem Buch erwartet. Zudem ist der Klappentext irreführend. ( ) I was pleased to discover this book at a book fair last year as it is one of Atwood's earlier novels. It has the ring of truth about it and I soon found that there is a common theme with the author's own life, especially the early years. The book moves between two timelines. In the 1980's, Elaine Risley is returning to Toronto for the opening of her art exhibition. Now about 50, she is confronted with the memories of her childhood lived in this city. Her first 10 years were very transient as her father an entomologist spent much time in the wilderness researching and collecting samples for his studies. His family went with him, his wife, son and daughter. This reflects the author's own childhood. The mother home schooled the children and it wasn't until her father accepted a teaching post, at the university, that they lived in a house which was still in the process of being completed and attended school. The story looks at her overtures to be accepted by a group of girls but the reader soon realises, as does Elaine, that she is being manipulated and bullied. The story follows her development until she decides to become a painter. Her art reflects, in a surrealist style, several of her early relationships and like much in the 60's and 70's also has a growing feminist theme. I found myself wanting to see these pieces of art even though they would be imaginary. I found in this book, a real connection, like other books of her early writing years. That sense when you return to the place you grew up after a long absence and everything has changed and it now only exists in your own memories. A very thought provoking book in so many ways. This is one of the most depressing books ever. The writing is so good that your heart utterly breaks for the little girl being bullied by her friends and turning into a nervous wreck. When I say depressing, I mean I wanted to curl up in my room and give up altogether, I was mean to my spouse and had stopped doing homework or housecleaning. I could not take it. This was a beautiful meditation on identity and memory, as well as a very honest portrait of childhood. Atwood's writing always astonishes. I thought the engrossing opening and heart-wrenching middle were stronger than the ending, maybe because I wasn't totally satisfied how Cordelia starts as this symbol of tormented girlhood but is then unveiled as a very real person with (somewhat boring) motivations. The narrative arc seems to be "formative childhood experiences can be catastrophic, but then we get over them" - which is true, but maybe not very interesting. Contenido enTiene como estudio aTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Nueva traducción de una de las novelas más emblemáticas de Margaret Atwood. Finalista de los prestigiosos premios Booker y Governor General's, es un insólito escrutinio de la vida cultural canadiense desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta los años ochenta. Mediante la forja de la personalidad de su protagonista, desde la infancia hasta la madurez, Margaret Atwood repasa, con la vehemente lucidez que la caracteriza, este fascinante período en el que el progreso del feminismo se entrelaza con la incesante mutación del arte moderno. Con motivo de la primera retrospectiva de su obra en Sub-Versions, una galería alternativa de Toronto regentada por un puñado de mujeres, Elaine Risley, una pintora rodeada de un aura de artista polémica, regresa a la ciudad y al paisaje de su juventud. El reencuentro con la urbe, antaño puritana y gris, ahora destellante bajo las luces de neón, hace aflorar una profusión de recuerdos, entre los que destacan imágenes de su atípica familia, su excéntrico y brillante hermano, con quien acostumbraba a jugar a las canicas, y sus antiguas amigas Carol, Grace y, en particular, Cordelia, con las que había creado un mundo propio ajeno a las preocupaciones de los adultos. Pasados los años, Elaine prosiguió su camino guardando para sí esa etapa extraña de su infancia al que accede gracias a una preciada canica de ojo de gato que le sirve de luz. A través de las vívidas descripciones de obras de arte, la fuerza evocadora de las escenas retrospectivas y la presencia de sutiles pinceladas autobiográficas, Atwood nos ofrece una magnífica novela de aprendizaje, donde una canica de vidrio transparente con una flor de pétalos de colores en el centro gira y gira en un equilibrio tan precario como la vida de las mujeres, que una vez fueron niñas. Perturbadora y mordaz, Ojo de gato revela a una escritora en permanente estado de gracia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life--from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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