Rafael Sicat từ Tereszpol-Kukiełki, Poland

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04/19/2024

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Rafael Sicat Sách lại (10)

2018-03-02 06:30

Nguyễn Duy - Ghi Và Nhớ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Duy

I have a lot of feelings about this book. On one hand, I enjoyed how he twisted a long form medium (the novel) into a mosaic of short stories. On the other hand, I don't think he had the ability as a writer to do a book-length straight narrative if he wanted to. Calvino is totally and wholly a short story writer. That said, I really like his short stories, and he did a lot to make up for the fact that this book was a collection of basically 20 shorts with a tenuous attempt at maintaining a non self-reflexive thread through all of them. What I love most about this book is the meditation on what it means to love reading. Right from the book store all the way to a wacky far-fetched fantasy about being prized by the state as one who loves reading, Calvino explores this feeling in so many beautiful ways. What he lacks in ability to write long form he makes up for in knowing how to craft stories with the same slope of growing excitement and involvement. It almost makes you wonder if each of the 10 aborted stories in the book were actually 10 real attemps by Calvino to write long fiction. Each story is a new approach in a different setting and genre and Calvino succeeds in getting you invested in each of them. Had the non-short story aspects of this book been more grounded in reality I think the thread through the entire book would have been more believable. But let's face it, Calvinos stories never end in a non-fantastic way even if they actually begin with people instead of thoughtful paramecia. I liked this book for the variety of flavors of writing. But overall it was more of a merry go round than something whose sum was greater than it's parts.

Người đọc Rafael Sicat từ Tereszpol-Kukiełki, Poland

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.