Patrick Schneider từ Divisione Acqui Canaletta PD, Italy

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11/05/2024

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Patrick Schneider Sách lại (10)

2020-01-21 15:30

Ký Ức Đen Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jennifer Egan

Reading the reviews for these Narnia books is going to be interesting, for sure. This book, like The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe is viciously hated by a lot of people. Whoa. First, about allegory, which was what people hated the most about The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe . Reviewers of this book claim to have not seen it, but it seems much stronger and even a little more preachy in this book than the previous one. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love allegory. But it's definitely in this book. Aslan literally follows them the whole time as protector and even, occasionally, administer of tough love. If anything reminded me of that (slightly cliched but still touching) Christian story of the two sets of footsteps on the beach representing your life, and only one set during the hardest parts because Christ was carrying you, this did. So I am kind of thinking that maybe reviewers (so disgusted with allegory before) really don't know all that much about... Christianity? I don't know, just a thought. Second, thoughts about race in regards to The Horse and His Boy. Yes, it is a little troubling that the brown people of the novel are almost universally bad - although, not Aravis, and not, I also noticed, her servant who loved her more than her parents. If I were writing an academic paper maybe I would tease some meaning out of that, but anyway. I noticed that this book feels (especially at the beginning) a lot like a story from Arabian Nights , and I wouldn't be surprised to find that C.S. Lewis used that collection of stories as a model. With that in mind, and in light of what's called The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight and the innate human inclination to construct an other to be opposed to, I am really less surprised and disgusted by Lewis' construction of an other which to oppose. And it is not as if Calormen is an actual Arab land and Calormene people are actual Arab people. Calormenes are not Muslims - they worship a variety of gods mentioned, and it is not even a little surprising that a Christian allegory would be set in opposition to another 'pagan' religion. What actually surprised me was the unprecedented concession of Aslan to the validity of Tash, to whose temple he sends Rabadash. Overall I think this book raises a lot of questions that are interesting to talk about, but is not, again, a piece of sinister propaganda. I didn't like the plot of this story as much as I liked The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe , but I definitely appreciated, again, the consistent bed time story feel of the narrative. After all, this is a book for children.

Người đọc Patrick Schneider từ Divisione Acqui Canaletta PD, Italy

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.