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Ladataan... The ChangelingTekijä: Joy Williams
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  SidKhanooja | Sep 1, 2023 |  It's a dazzling book. Not at all a conventional narrative. Elements of magical realism and deep mythology. The protagonist and primary narrator is an admitted drunk, but I think it a mistake to think about this in terms of a personality characteristic... it is more a device that lets us, as readers, experience the world of the novel while dodging the limitations of conventional, rational explanation and unambiguous description. A tough read at times, but ultimately well worth it. hbowie | May 1, 2022 | it's challenging to spend a whole book in Pearl's mind, Pearl who herself seems to be hardly there at all. yet the book, swimming in gin and thereby skimming over so much of the real world outside herself until she achieves the condition, by refusing to engage, of transcending, transforming the real, creates its own reality in the drift, in the wild children who may or may not exist, who tell her everything and protect her, willingly caught inside her/their stories. it begins as a plane wreck, Pearl floating, rescued/not rescued, resurfacing on an island she cannot bear to inhabit or to leave. it's a force of life, caught perhaps in a moment of death or self-destruction, connected and tragically unconnected to the world around it, even to the inner life it still feels. first published in 1978, it resides in a profoundly female consciousness, set in another time we hardly can (manage to)(bear to) inhabit, where the mother splits, dissolves, after childbirth, and the child left behind is perceived as loved, as other, and as gone. (  ) macha | May 13, 2019 | A tough but unique and ultimately worthwhile read. The sustained confusion of a disoriented narrator might turn off some, but there is enough here for a close reading of Pearl's perspective. ( ) albertgoldfain | Aug 16, 2018 | This is a re-release of a book written in the 70s (and severely panned by the critics). I finished the book two days ago and am still thinking about it. Did I read a book about a cult? An alcoholic woman's crazy thoughts? A dream? The truth or a bunch of lies? If you enjoy books with creepy children, a gothic horror sensibility and no true resolution of what you've invested hours in reading, then this is your book. (  ) ouroborosangel | May 22, 2018 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Forty years later, The Changeling is no less haunting and no less visionary than the day it was published, but it has only become clearer that Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker--a genius in every sense of the word. When we first meet Pearl--young in years but advanced in her drinking--she's on the lam, sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics with her infant son cradled in the crook of her arm. But her escape is brief, and the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her round-the-clock drinking spurs on the former even if it dulls the latter. And through this lens--Pearl's fragile consciousness--readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood in a new light. With language that flits between exuberance and elegy, the plainspoken and the poetic, Joy Williams has blended, as Rick Moody writes, "the arresting improbabilities of magic realism, with the surrealism of the folkloric revival . . . and with the modernist foreboding of Under the Volcano," and created something entirely original and entirely consuming. 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: (3.72)
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This is the kind of book, though, that most people will hate with a fury that is rarely extinguished, and I can't deny them their hate, because this book is for people who don't mind loose ends dangling just beyond reach, and the plot still unexplainable after one tells it you what it meant (if there actually is one), and no one else.
This is about many things - alcohol, madness, children, trauma, consent, clairvoyance, solitude - and at the same time, it may seem rambling, precisely due to so many converging and diverging themes. Most books run with one or two, three seems like a stretch. This masterpiece handled seven themes with aplomb, and you get the suspicious feeling that this was because the author limited herself to seven.
TL;DR - read it if you're into Gainax endings, don't read if you like linear narratives and storytelling. (