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Cargando... La biblia envenenada (1998)por Barbara Kingsolver
  
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 Kingsolver once wrote that ""The point [of portraying other cultures] is not to emulate other lives, or usurp their wardrobes. The point is to find sense.'' Her effort to make sense of the Congo's tragic struggle for independence is fully realized, richly embroidered, triumphant.  A writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books. The Congo permeates ''The Poisonwood Bible,'' and yet this is a novel that is just as much about America, a portrait, in absentia, of the nation that sent the Prices to save the souls of a people for whom it felt only contempt, people who already, in the words of a more experienced missionary, ''have a world of God's grace in their lives, along with a dose of hardship that can kill a person entirely.'' Although ''The Poisonwood Bible'' takes place in the former Belgian Congo and begins in 1959 and ends in the 1990's, Barbara Kingsolver's powerful new book is actually an old-fashioned 19th-century novel, a Hawthornian tale of sin and redemption and the ''dark necessity'' of history. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enHomeland and Other Stories | Animal Dreams | The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven | The Poisonwood Bible | Prodigal Summer por Barbara Kingsolver Tiene como guía/complementario de referencia aTiene como estudio aTiene como guía de estudio a
África. El Congo. 1959. Finaliza la época colonial; algunos grupos independentistas comienzan a alzar su voz. En medio de este complicado panorama, un pastor protestante decide viajar con su esposa y cuatro hijas hasta el intrincado lugar. Cada uno de los protagonistas tendrá su propio punto de vista sobre la historia de esa familia, y nos lo contarán. Nathan, el padre, es un hombre de fe inquebrantable, pero demasiado riguroso; toda su vida gira alrededor de una religión que es exigente e impersonal. Habrá que ver si él podrá transmitir su mensaje de fe a los habitantes de aquella aldea pobre; acostumbrados a sus propios dioses, creencias y tradiciones. La historia de la familia será sólo un telón de fondo para justificar el verdadero relato. El panorama desolado que se vive allí; un ambiente lleno de plagas, enfermedades y muerte; el hastío de las mujeres ante las dificultades de la vida que parecen nunca acabar. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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