Alie Trejo từ Bogolonta, Bulgaria

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05/10/2024

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2019-04-30 02:30

Thế Nào Và Tại Sao: Núi Lửa - Lửa Từ Lòng Đất Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Manfred Baur

I have an enormous respect for George MacDonald. His books such as At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, The Day Boy and the Night Girl and even Alec Forbes and His Friend Annie were among my childhood favorites--they were magical and my first brushes with fantasy at 8-10 years old. He was an exceptionally gifted and inspired writer of the 1800's. I even respect his history as a clergyman who loved god but left off being a preacher because he believed, against the tenets of his times, that everyone was capable of redemption. Plus, he was Scottish. You know? :) But Lilith has been extremely difficult for me to get through. Lilith, the biblical Adam's 'other' wife, is basically damned and evil and vile because she's a really bad mother. (And I mean really bad, the characterization of which is misogynist in itself.) Almost worse, the main character's attraction to another disturbingly child-like girl is based solely on her having an intensely devoted mothering nature. This was "good". Anything else is "bad". Perhaps this is all because it's the first time I've attempted one of GM's books after leaving behind my childhood religion. Perhaps I'd find myself reacting the same way to any of my old favorites, at this point in my life. I find that despite my respect for him, I can't not mention the sexism inherent in it, even though he's a man of god from the 1800's--what else could you expect? I know he wasn't more misogynist than his contemporaries--and considering his many, many books from the feminine perspective, I suspect he was actually less so than most! But it's still worth mentioning to the modern reader that the preconceived notions of womanhood, especially motherhood, that this book is based on are absolutely revolting. It's pretty and romantic only if you are capable of completely divorcing the notion of womanhood and motherhood from any real, live woman. From humanity, from being capable of developing and living by our own moral compass, from the concept of self-determination.

Người đọc Alie Trejo từ Bogolonta, Bulgaria

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.