Ciro Esposito từ Zona Industriale Naseddu OT, Italy

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2019-05-03 16:30

100 Từ Đầu Đời Của Bé - Động Vật Kỳ Thú Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This will take a while. I spent nearly 7 months reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon once I finally started it. It's worth it. Rebecca West may go on for pages about things that might not interest you all that much, describing church architecture, but this book is also full of interesting stories and observations and gems of writing. West can be one of the best prose stylists I've ever read, perhaps the greatest female writer I can think of (I do spend more time reading books by men). A sampling of the best quotes will be collected here as room allows. What makes the book absolutely fascinating is when it was written - in the late 1930s. Rebecca West is a woman of strong opinions, while she finds qualities to love in the Serbians above all and in the other peoples of Yugoslavia, she haranges against the Habsburgs' empire (with the exception of kind words for Empress Sissy) and the Ottomans, as well as the Germans that she meets in the Balkans, Hitler and Mussolini. Most passionately in the "Old Serbia" chapter 800 pages in, she visits Blackbird Field in Kosovo where the Turks defeated the Serbs in 1389 and decries the decision of the Serbian leader, according to a saga, to choose a kingdom of heaven rather than a kingdom on Earth, and accept the defeat and destruction of his people - she sees here a preference to be the sacrificial lamb rather than the one who kills the lamb, repeated over the centuries, in Franz Ferdinand's "eager" victimhood as he visits Sarajevo in 1914, in Britain and France's refusal to stand up to Hitler until it is too late, if at all, in her fellow progressives of Western Europe. This is her essential thesis, and it is pounded home in the conclusion which moves beyond her journeys to Yugoslavia in 1938 at the latest to describe the last 2 years of earth-shaking history including the conquests of Yugoslavia and France. The book contains multitudes and much wisdom, despite its biases (one of the reasons I did not take this book to Turkey with me, other than its weight, is West's anti-Islam bent). This is enough review, I heartily recommend the book if you think you have the interest and time, it will reward you. But most of you will never read the whole thing, even if you read this, so here's a sampling of the best of it: (to follow)

Người đọc Ciro Esposito từ Zona Industriale Naseddu OT, Italy

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.