Fee Scholz từ Özlüce/Ankara, Turkey

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05/05/2024

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2019-10-21 14:30

Bộ Sách Kỷ Niệm 120 Năm Ngày Sinh Chủ Tịch Hồ Chí Minh - 120 Địa Danh Hồ Chí Minh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Sông Lam - Bình Minh

In this book, we see nineteenth-century Washington congressmen hocking tobacco-juice loogies all over the Congressional carpets. This book is awesome. American Notes for General Circulation is a portrait of 1842 America and Americans unlike any I’d ever encountered. Probably because, as it turns out, Americans liked Dickens's social commentary about stuff like Oliver Twist not getting a little more, but didn’t so much want to hear critiques about themselves. Typical. And so the book hasn’t come down in the classic US canon for the ages. I think that maybe it should have. I’m still haunted by Dickens's image of traveling west, pre-railroad, through a soggy brown wasteland of gigantic stumps and tiny shacks – Little House on the Prairie it ain’t. And the discomfort, difficulty and danger (seems like those newfangled steam ships had a tendency to explode) of Dickens’s journey is riveting in itself, down to the descriptions of the shipboard accommodations, particularly the cuisine (look for it!). But it’s not all jolly in travelogue land. Dickens found the institution of slavery so repugnant that a well-deserved excoriation of the US for tolerating it is a major focus of the book. Yay, Dickens! But did anyone else notice that in the midst of his knight errantry on behalf of the enslaved and impoverished, his treatment of women was rather problematic? I mean, he spends a not-insignificant portion of the book checking out hot Yankee babes (in kind of a creepy way), making scathing remarks about those Cambridge, MA bluestockings, and presenting his wife in a less-than-flattering light. Boo, Dickens! Now writing three-dimensional women was not exactly Dickens’s strong suit, but I’ve always cut him some Victorian male slack on that one. But as he served up yet another ogle, something gave, and I haven’t been able to cut him quite the same length of slack since. My issues with Dickens and women didn’t scuttle the book, though, which is hilarious, insightful and feels awfully familiar. The more things change…

Người đọc Fee Scholz từ Özlüce/Ankara, 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.