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Ladataan... All That Is (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2013; vuoden 2013 painos)Tekijä: James Salter
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Tres décadas después de la publicación de su anterior novela, la aparición de Todo lo que hay constituyó el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Ambientada en las décadas doradas que siguieron a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en ella se dan cita los temas, inquietudes y pensamientos que han ocupado a Salter toda su vida, ese afán permanente por capturar los espacios Ãntimos, evanescentes, que todos albergamos y dejarlos grabados en tinta sobre papel. Tras participar como joven oficial en las batallas navales de Okinawa, Philip Bowman vuelve a casa y, después de pasar por Harvard, consigue un empleo en una pequeña editorial de renombre en Nueva York. En esa época, la edición atañe a un puñado de editoriales en América y Europa que desarrollan su negocio en una frenética actividad social: cócteles, cenas, encuentros en apartamentos de leyenda y conversaciones que se alargan hasta altas horas de la madrugada. En esos ágapes mundanos donde se fraguan acuerdos furtivos y se deciden carreras literarias, Bowman se siente como pez en el agua. Sin embargo, pese a su éxito profesional y a sus infalibles dotes de seductor, el amor duradero parece eludirlo. Cuando finalmente conoce a una mujer que lo fascina, Bowman emprenderá un camino que nunca habÃa pensado transitar.
...this novel casts the last four decades in a completely new light, not coda but overture. The brilliantly compressed stories in which life is lit by lightning flash, the humane memoir that generously exalts, more than anything, the lineaments of ordinary existence — it’s all here, subsumed and assimilated in the service of a work that manages to be both recognizable (no one but Salter could have written it) and yet strikingly original, vigorous proof that this literary lion is still very much on the prowl. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinEmpúries Narrativa (456) PalkinnotDistinctions
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HTML: An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I've read other reviewers accusing this novel specifically, and sometimes Salter generally, of misogyny. And I can see it. His other novels I've read, which I did in fact like, are strongly male-centered points of view and they treat women as accessories, generally, and not always kindly. But this novel goes considerably further in its unflattering treatment of female characters, though the men often appear as assholes as well. I do find myself wondering if when he writes of a character he is succinctly describing his own attitude.
And I have to wonder why so many of the characters Salter creates here are said to be on their third marriage or so, even when the character only appears for a few pages and that information wouldn't seem all that important: Wells only exists for 3 pages. Hinds exists for one page.
There are plenty of other examples. What's with the compulsion to give so many characters so many spouses? To show how much you don't believe in things like commitment?
So then there's the ugliest chapter near the end, in which our protagonist, Philip Bowman, seduces the college aged daughter of a former lover who betrayed him, flies her to Paris with him, fucks her a few more times, then abandons her alone in a hotel room with no money.
Well, at least she's still fresh, thank God, even after the deflowering by an asshole decades older than she is. Shit.
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