Kara Manson từ Lake Boga VIC , Australia

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11/05/2024

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2019-04-23 13:30

Trò Chơi Phát Triển Trí Tuệ IQ - Quyển 6 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

J. M. Coetzee's pseudo-novel, "Diary of a Bad Year," is almost, but not really, once you accept his concretismo terms of writing, irritating to read. He sections off each page into three vantage points of view by the three main characters. The first section on the pages is the typed manuscript of the author's, (thinly disguised as Coetzee, himself), "Strong Opinions," comprising all subjects from "01. -On the Origins of the State," through "24. -On Dostoevsky." The second section on the pages is the voice of the erotic, yet compassionate, downstairs neighbor, a Filipina woman named Anya, whom the aging author hires to type his manuscript. The third section on each page concentrates on the relationship Anya has with her live-in lover, Alan, who gradually and predictably becomes jealously obsessed with Anya's daily meetings with the famous, old author upstairs. Alan tries unsuccessfully to engage Anya in a plot to steal the old man's money. Anya refuses to accomodate Alan's avaricious greed and leaves him, once the manuscript is finished. She winds up quite liberated after the experience of being honored by the old author's attentions and his literary works over the period of time she works for him. Alan, by contrast, remains full of sour grapes, and can only find fault with the author's work on every envious level imaginable. It took me awhile to enjoy the book. After all, I had just read the epic masterpiece by Roberto Bolano, "2666," and had to adjust my expectations to the different, more insular and almost parable-like work of Coetzee in the "Diary of a Bad Year." The three-tiered arrangement of the novel is both clever and poignant, making clear the differences among face-to-face communications, the exchanges behind one's back, and the words that eventually wind up being published, in German no less, without the back stories.

2019-04-23 15:30

Giúp Bé Tập Tô Và Tập Viết - Quyển 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Perplexing. A few thoughts on this account of a girl who converts to orthodox Judaism and then later decides to leave it for Christianity: 1 - I guess I don't know much about Christian theology but I find it strange that someone as clearly intelligent as this girl has no problem with the doctrine which to me seems so beyond human reason 2 - Reading about someone's mikva experience as she enters the jewish community followed by her baptism a few chapters later is nothing short of jarring 3 - It is ironic that in so many ways a convert has a hard time being fully accepted (she touches on this) and yet if he or she decides to leave it suddenly becomes so apparent how full fledged Jewish s/he is. 4 - The constant Jesus stuff is really hard to take 5 - The parallels between Christianity and Judaism as well as the non parallels are always of interest to me and it can make sense, paradoxically enough, that the same things can be attractive about both yet at the same time this is true of the ways in which they are different. I found it particularly interesting that she was encouraged to give up her passion - reading - for Lent, as this was considered a much more beautfiul sacrifice for Gd since it's something she truly loves. At first I found that repugnant - love for Gd is not manifest in sacrficing gifts He gives us! But then I was thinking how, lehavdil, we give up music for sefirah or take on extra things to show a sense of mourning or loss during Av or whatever, and it really is the same thing - all the more so if reading becomes idolotrous which even I (especially I?) can see. 6 - As an aside, while I'm taken by the premise and her turn of phrase, she can be really irritating at times and falls more under the second category of memoir writers (darn narcisist) than the more popular first (has a good story to tell). Anyway just had to get all that down.

Người đọc Kara Manson từ Lake Boga VIC , Australia

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.