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Cargando... En casa (2008)por Marilynne Robinson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Glory, de treinta y ocho años, ha regresado al hogar familiar para cuidar a su moribundo padre. Al cabo de poco tiempo, su hermano Jack, hijo pródigo que ha estado fuera veinte años, vuelve a casa en busca de refugio y tratando de reconciliarse con un pasado marcado por las preocupaciones y el dolor. Mal chico desde su infancia, alcohólico incapaz de conservar un empleo, vive perpetuamente enfrentado a todo lo que le rodea y, en especial, al tradicionalismo de su padre aunque, brillante y encantador, sigue siendo el hijo más querido del reverendo Boughton. Mientras su padre vive sus últimos días, Glory y Jack establecerán una intensa relación. ( )
The glories of Gilead - and of Housekeeping, for that matter - have not quite found their way into Home. One reason for this may be Robinson's decision to write in the third person for the first time, thus suppressing one of her great gifts, which is the mix of wryness, wisdom and self-deprecation with which she infused her first two narrators' voices. But what remains is Gilead's sense of how character, however unkindly, determines one's fate, which in Home arrives silently but powerfully, like a glacier leaving a raw gash in the landscape. Robinson's output may also be glacial, but the force her words leave in her wake is unmistakable. These ugly facts [of small-town racism] complicate the beauty of “Home,” but the way Robinson embeds them in the novel is part of what makes it so beautiful. It is a book unsparing in its acknowledgment of sin and unstinting in its belief in the possibility of grace. It is at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a wild, eccentric, radical work of literature that grows out of the broadest, most fertile, most familiar native literary tradition. What a strange old book it is. The Reverend Boughton, is in decline. Glory, the youngest of his eight children, has come home to care for him, and both are grateful and alarmed when Jack, the prodigal son, reappears after an excruciating 20-year absence. Once a charming scoundrel, Jack is now riddled with regrets and despair. As she cares for two broken men struggling toward reconciliation and redemption, Glory is a paragon of patience, a virtue readers also must cultivate as Robinson follows an austere narrative regime, confining the reader to the day-by-day present and the Boughton home. Household chores are infused with metaphysical implications, while what is not said carries more weight than what is spoken. Robinson wrestles with moral dilemmas ordinary and catastrophic, and ponders the mystery of why human beings never feel wholly at home on earth. This is a rigorous, sometimes claustrophobic, yet powerfully spiritual novel of anguish and prayer, wisdom and beauty, penance and hope. Pertenece a las seriesGilead (2) Contenido enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Robinson regresa al escenario de Gilead para narrar el retorno a casa de Jack y Gloria, hijos del reverendo Boughton. Gloria, de treinta y ocho an?os, ha regresado al hogar familiar para cuidar su moribundo padre. Al cabo de poco tiempo, su hermano Jack, hijo pro?digo que ha estado fuera veinte an?os, vuelve a casa en busca de refugio y tratando de reconciliarse con un pasado marcado por las preocupaciones y el dolor. Mal chico desde su infancia, alcoho?lico incapaz de conservar un empleo, vive perpetuamente enfrentado a todo lo que le rodea y, en especial, al tradicionalismo de su padre aunque, brillante y encantador, sigue siendo el hijo ma?s querido del Reverendo Boughton. Mientras su padre vive sus u?ltimos di?as, Gloria y Jack establecera?n una intensa relacio?n. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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