Paul Vancl từ Yaylasöğüt/Muğla, Turkey

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11/05/2024

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Paul Vancl Sách lại (10)

2019-03-03 22:30

Combo Những Câu Chuyện Đời 1: Truyện Cổ Grim 1 Và 2, Hai Số Phận, Trà Hoa Nữ - Hộp Gỗ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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The End Justifies the Mean I originally bought this as a remainder and left it unread for several years, suspecting it might be a vain or indulgent experiment in crime genre fiction by one of my favourite authors, John Banville. Instead, it’s a masterful and easy to read pathological, if not necessarily surgical, dissection of family, social and religious issues in 1950’s Irish Catholic Dublin and Boston. Banville subtly utilises all of his literary skills to conjure a convincing irreverent, if not slightly sacrilegious, crime thriller. Writing in the guise or disguise of Benjamin Black, he juggles adoption, abortion, murder and petty thuggery; parenthood actual, surrogate, foster and unsuspecting; sisters spiritual, nursing and consanguine; life lived and tasks undertaken with both caution and abandonment; systemized vice and spontaneous virtue; evangelism, charity, love, violence and power all dispensed and discharged in the name of the Father and of the father. Black’s target is those who would argue that we know what’s good for you better than you do, and that the end justifies not just the means, but the meanness. Religion is less under threat from those who would question it than those who would declare false allegiance. Quirke of Love and Fate The protagonist, Quirke, himself a motherless child, a black sheep, a widower, an uncle, a coveter, a doubter, and a dreamer, is flawed but tenacious in his pursuit of the truth, even if he risks pulling the temple of family, employment, society and religion down around him. I originally wondered whether "Christine Falls" was a natural water feature. It turns out to be the name of the victim who triggers Quirke’s rollercoaster ride, but I wonder whether it symbolizes the decline and fall of virtuous religious influence on society through the eyes of a mother and daughter who would have had every right to feel let down by the powers that be, both mortal and immortal.

Người đọc Paul Vancl từ Yaylasöğüt/Muğla, Turkey

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.