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Ladataan... Myself and Marco PoloTekijä: Paul Griffiths
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Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and persuades Polo to dictate his memoirs to him. The scribe listens, ignores, alters and embellishes. The consequent ironies, uncertainties, slippages between fact and fiction are the very stuff of the post-modern writer. On first publication in 1989, it was widely praised. 'The narrative loops are as graceful as any Arabian calligraphy ... Paul Griffiths writes superbly.' Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph 'A thoroughly modern piece of fiction which queries the nature of authorship, readership and truth itself ... Marco's doubtful account of himself rapidly falters and falls victim to ambiguity, paradox, self-reference, wilful anachronism and parody.' Robert Irwin, TLS Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
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Having achieved this realization, I don't really see the point of continuing to read the book: "What isn't known instantly isn't worth knowing" (p. 141). Certainly, at least, I shall not bother to read it sequentially, though I may dip in to some of the later sections for some of the shorter and more amusing renditions of Zen koans or mock-historical narratives a la Jorge Luis Borges, while avoiding the pointless pieces of collage such as the extract from the 1986 San Francisco telephone directory. The author gets approbatory comments from such lights of the firmament as Hilary Mantel and Rowan Williams, so I did wonder whether I was just too dense to appreciate the book, but I found a review by Carolyn See in the L.A. Times which made me feel a bit better.
MB 19-xi-2021
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-16-vw-47-story.html ( )