Jonathan Stilz từ Vannimanagaram, Tamil Nadu , India

mrreell

05/10/2024

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Jonathan Stilz Sách lại (10)

2020-01-17 18:31

Khám Phá Cuộc Sống Quanh Em - Trong Vườn Thú Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Miklós Malvina

This was an odd and interesting book. I'm not exactly sure that I liked it, but I'm glad I read it. It's about Ned Moon, spending a summer with friends at a country house in England; all is going well, and he is perfectly happy with himself and his life, until Marina, the wife of one of his dear friends, makes her appearance and Ned falls head-over-heels for her. The novel is a rather dream-like study of the effects of this passion on Ned's sense of himself, with much dissecting of emotions and a lot of beautiful descriptive prose. I didn't much like either Ned or Marina, but I think that's one of Strachey's points; passion happens to everyone, and in unexpected ways, and it is rarely convenient or pretty no matter how poetic its manifestations may appear to those caught in the moment. There's also a thread throughout the novel of the clash between Marina's very contemporary 1950s ideals, and the pre-WW2 ideals of Ned and his friends. Marina is desperately sincere, very concerned about the future; the friends are somewhat resigned to the life they've known fading, and while they condemn the terrible mass-produced foods and clothing worn by the working-class villagers, they make no real efforts to fight against the current of the times. As Strachey herself was fifty when the novel was written, and was very much of that upper-class world which was dissolving in the wake of the second World War, I found this the most fascinating part of the novel, along with the dialogue. From everything I've read about the Bloomsbury group, she captured their sort of witty, playful, occasionally obscene conversations perfectly.

Người đọc Jonathan Stilz từ Vannimanagaram, Tamil Nadu , India

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.