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Cargando... Hamlet (1956)por Alfred Döblin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Nachdem er einen Kamikaze-Anschlag auf sein Schiff im Pazifischen Ozean überlebt hat, kehrt Edward Allison ins Haus seiner Eltern zurück. An seinem Vater, einem angesehenen, gut verdienenden Dichter, und seiner Mutter, einer eleganten Dame, ist der zweite Weltkrieg praktisch unbemerkt vorbeigezogen. Edward jedoch bringt nun mit seinen Fragen nach der Kriegsschuld und seinem Verdacht, es sei etwas "faul", Unruhe ins Haus. Nur kurz kann der Dichter seiner Befragung durch das Geschichtenerzählen ausweichen, dann jedoch tritt zu Tage, dass es vor allem Unehrlichkeit und Heuchelei ist, worauf der familiäre Zusammenhalt aufbaut. Döblins 1957 geschriebenes Werk versammelt in sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen die Themen von Kriegserfahrung, gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt und Umbruch sowie der gesellschaftlichen Funktion von Phantasie und Dichtung. Es ist keine leichte Kost, fasziniert aber durch seine in Rhythmus und Vokabular ausdrucksstarke Sprache. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The story of a young Englishman called Edward Allison who loses a leg during World War II and returns home a nervous as well as a physical wreck, tormented by doubt and anger, and obsessed with what seems to him the mystery of where the blame for the war really lies. He is released from a clinic in the hope that living among his family will hasten his cure, but he simply transfers his fixation with hidden guilt to the domestic front. ... In an effort to exorcise his demons, the Allisons and their friends start telling a series of stories, many of them variations on ancient myths and legends. Some of these tales serve to reveal the character of the storyteller, others as a riposte or as a comment on what has gone before. All of them are meant to advance the psychological and spiritual action. Many of the tales of Doblin's long night have an undoubted lurid power. ... We move through an expressionist phantasmagoria from a wayward bus in Los Angeles to Pluto and Proserpina, by way of Michelangelo and Salome and a mock-medieval tale about the Virgin. Edward's mother, Alice Allison (a significant name, we can be sure), spins variants of a story about a mother who waits for her son to come back from the war, now in Montmartre, now in Germany, and elaborates on the already elaborate legend of her patron saint, Theodora. In the final stages of the book the distinction between framework and fantasy starts to break down completely. Yet through the haze it is possible to discern a continuous story unfolding--fmerusault at Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Finished: and here's the exceedingly unsatisfactory best I can do in giving a justification of my non-affection for the book: in a volume of close to 500 pages, there just doesn't seem to be enough *relevant* information about most characters for doing or believing what they're doing, or how they're doing it. Maybe it's just an attempt at a grand allegory, but it just sort of felt like a bland melodrama. Now I'm afraid to reread Berlin, Alexanderplatz, for fear that my good memories of it were somehow delusional. ( )