Bernard Swift từ Töltschach, Austria

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12/22/2024

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2018-07-19 03:30

Không Thể Bỏ Lỡ! Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gilles Legardinier

How, HOW is it possible to write a book this beautiful? I read this in a day and felt like I had just been given a tour of a Victorian House made entirely of spider webs and rock candy. And the only possible thing you can think to ask the builder is "How did you build that? How long did it take? How...?" How DO you write a sentence like this: "He emptied six shelves from the upstairs closet, frayed mattress liners bearing rose or lemon-colored stains, blankets sopped with the picnic of the girls' spilled sleep." I hope a sentence like that took Eugenides his whole life to write and that he had to sell his soul to get the last part of it. While the story is set in the 1970s, it seemed to me to have more of the feel of the early 1990s, when it was published and when the narrators are compiling their evidence. There is something wonderful about the early 90s feminine aesthetic - I'm thinking Winona Ryder and Courtney Love in her better years and the tween girl in "The Crow". The Libson girls, with their magic marker tatoos, flavored lipstick, dismembered stuffed animals, decaying lace and cigarettes seem more Hole than Heart to me. And this leads me to my one criticism of the book - a novel this beautifully wrought is obviously a metaphor for larger social issues and historical periods. I was having a fabulous time imagining what those were until, alas, the last few pages where Eugenides (or a worried editor, perhaps?) found it necessary to hammer me over the head with exactly what these were. (The loss of the automotive industry in 1970s Detroit? Oh brother.) At least some of this was half-cleverly hidden in the opinions of a character named "Mr. Eugene." But I'll figure out the metaphorical significance of my novels myself, thank you very much. Still, even this hammering at the end works within the scheme of the middle-aged men, souls convulsed with nostalgia, as they try to squeeze life back into their own memories of those dead, dead girls.

2018-07-19 04:30

Nghệ Thuật Nói Chuyện Và Xã Giao Hằng Ngày Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I got into it because the post-colonial/feminist angle. I had political literary agenda. It was one of my 6 novels I read by my BA thesis. My focus was on her experience with Mr. Rochester and the Mad Woman in the Attic named Bertha Mason who is a Creole from Jamaica. I read it through the lens of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea which is a post-colonial/feminist response which tells the story from Bertha's point of view, at some times poetically, and sometimes too politically. Despite my critical approach and knowing Jane Eyre was a melodramatic story, I felt the ending was moving. My reading is also informed by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's anthology Madwoman in the Attic. ***PLOT SPOILER*** It demonstrate different types of love relationships. Mr. Rochester and Jane communicate after a year by concentration. We do that today. Have you ever been thinking heavily about someone and then they send you a text message or email "seemingly" out of the blue? I have and whenever it happens, I think of Charlotte Bronte's comment that people CAN communicate like that. Another example is with the missionary St John Rivers. After he held a sermon, his energy was so strong that Jane almost succumbed to him on the belief he loved her. But his sermon hadn't made his love stronger, just his convictions that she should do as he asked, that is, marry so they could go to Hindustan (India) together. Remember, she would happily have gone with him as a cousin, but not as a conjugal wife. But he wanted the wife to serve him. It's at this critical moment, she runs out and "hears" Mr. Rochester calling her from many miles away. Without or without Feminist or post-colonial readings, Jane Eyre offers a lot to the modern reader. Also of note: When did Mr. Rochester get his eye sight back? Strangely, after he had been humbled by Jane's love. What's his loss of eye sight and limp signify? castration. Proud, powerful Mr. Rochester had been blinded and crippled, and so at the end, it's the little "Plain Jane" Eyre whose strong will triumphs in the end. It begins with her having nothing and no home, and ends with her being 30, a strong mother and wife, and independent spiritual center. It's got a lot of good things to it. See, it's really about Triumph of the Will. And a famous German documentary was inspired by Jane's struggle, her Kampf. And Jane wanted to be an artist too. She like drawing. And who was the director? Leni Riefenstahl. That's right. A girl. A strong, independent minded girl who made 2 famous documentaries that shook the world.

Người đọc Bernard Swift từ Töltschach, Austria

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.