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Remembering (1990)

Tekijä: Wendell Berry

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Fiction. Literature. It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky, he begins to remember people, the land, and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy's reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love. Inspiring and eye-opening, Remembering follows Andy's journey out of darkness and into the warm light of community.… (lisätietoja)
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In Remembering, one of Wendell Berry’s Port William novels, Andy Catlett has traveled from Port William to San Francisco to speak at a conference on farming. It is 1976 and Andy (whom readers met as a boy and young man in previous novels) is now a middle-aged father and recently lost his right hand in a farming accident. He has recovered physically but not psychologically, and this has put significant strain on his marriage. And then he finds himself in a lecture hall, listening to “suits” droning on about modern-day farming practices, and he just can’t stand it. He sets his prepared remarks aside and speaks from his heart, which isn’t necessarily popular with the audience and the conference organizers.

After this episode, Andy wakes up in a cold sweat in his hotel room and heads out into the early morning for a long walk around San Francisco, filled with ruminations and memories. These vignettes paint a picture of Andy’s adult life, and also remind us of Port William, its people, and a way of life that was disappearing then and by today has faded into even more obscurity. And yet, Andy’s reflections during his walk and on his journey home also have a ray of hope, at least for Andy himself if not for rural America. ( )
  lauralkeet | Nov 3, 2022 |
I was back in Port William, Kentucky to visit with Andy Catlett today, and sadly found him not doing well. At the outset of this novel, we find that Andy has lost his right hand and is having a great deal of difficulty dealing with the loss.

...much of his thought now had to do with the comparison of times, as if he were condemned forever to measure the difference between his life when he was whole and his life now.

Our lives do so often divide between today and yesterday, before and after. In Andy’s case there is a physical manifestation of this divide, but sometimes it is just a psychological or emotional one. For me, it was the loss of my mother that left me in much this same frame of mind, always comparing my life that was whole with her in it and never quite whole without her.

As he struggles, we are taken, through his memory, back to earlier days and happier times, and we watch him gather strength from the core of who he is and all the people who have contributed over time to who he is. I have grown to love Andy Catlett over the years, so his tragedy felt very real and very sad to me.

Amidst his contemplation of life, Andy, via Berry, also considers the changes that have come to the land and to farming and farmers in particular. It is a recurring and important theme with Berry, the destruction of the land and the loss of a way of life that diminishes us all.

Andy began to foresee a time when everything in the country would be marketable and everything marketable would be sold, when not one freestanding tree or household or man or woman would remain.

What Andy grapples with is his faith: his faith in himself, his life and his ability to find something precious still existing in what seems now like a half-life.

His life has never rested on anything he has known beforehand--none of it. He chose it before he knew it, and again afterwards. And then he failed his trust and his choice, and now has chosen again, again on trust.

If you have never read [a:Wendell Berry|8567|Wendell Berry|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1209652700p2/8567.jpg] before, don’t start with this one. Start with [b:Hannah Coulter|146198|Hannah Coulter|Wendell Berry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442893723l/146198._SY75_.jpg|1033718] or [b:Jayber Crow|57460|Jayber Crow|Wendell Berry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1433600577l/57460._SY75_.jpg|55980]. Get to know these people, so that the emotions you will feel for Andy will be developed over time and so that the references to other characters will feel like mentions of old friends. This book is copyright 2008; the first book, [b:Nathan Coulter|227273|Nathan Coulter|Wendell Berry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1172875661l/227273.jpg|220144] was copyrighted in 1960, and there is some of the best writing on the planet in between. Take a trip to Port William; I promise you that you will want to revisit time and time again.
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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
Summary: Following the loss of a hand, a grieving Andy Catlett struggles with both his loss and his anger with agribusiness, that he believes is destroying a way of life, and gropes his way toward healing.

Andy Catlett is suffering from two losses, and struggles with anger from both. While harvesting crops with a neighbor, his right hand is mangled in a machine, resulting in the loss of the hand. One of the remarkable qualities of this narrative is how Berry explores the inner struggle of a capable man who struggles to write, to dress himself, and not make a nuisance of himself while doing farm chores. He is angry with himself, and quarreling incessantly with his wife, who sees through it all and Andy's inability to forgive himself.

He has been angry with American agribusiness for a long period of time, how it has destroyed a way of life in the name of efficiency which underwrites equipment manufacturers, fuel and fertilizer interests, and banks at the expense of the few remaining farmers in perpetual debt. He saw its effects as a journalist, and sees them in the erosion of a way of life in the town to which he returned to farm, Port William. He is not an easy person to live with.

Catlett's twin angers reach a crisis point when he leaves home, amid alienating arguments with his wife that seem to have no resolution, to speak at an agricultural conference. He sets aside his planned speech to excoriate the assembled experts, whose mathematical models do not touch the pain experienced by all those who have left farms. He tells the stories of his ancestors and friends from Port William, and how they have suffered under the ideas of the experts and ends with damning the enterprise.

The book is framed by two dreams, one in his hotel in San Francisco after speaking, the other in the woods near his Kentucky home, a beatific vision of a transformed Port William. In between, Catlett travels a journey of remembering, as he walks the streets of San Francisco to the bay, and then on his flight home. He recalls the speech, his arguments with Flora, his wife, the accident, his sense of being unmanned, cut off from his hand, as it were.

Perhaps the most effective portion was remembering his time as a journalist, and two interviews, one planned and one not. He visits the Meikelberger farm, the symbol of modern agriculture, with its huge grain bins, monstrous equipment, and 2,000 acres planted in nothing but corn as far as the eye can see. It is an impressive operation but beneath the impressive appearance is a man with an ulcer, incessant worry over perpetual debt, all built atop old farmsteads that have disappeared. He detours, enroute to Pittsburgh, through Amish country in eastern Ohio, stops to watch a farmer plowing his field with a team of three beautiful horses. He sees a well-kept farmstead, and nearby farms. He is offered a chance to plow with the team, bringing back childhood memories. As he questions Yoder, he learns the farm has no debt, and Yoder, who is older than Meikelberger looks ten years younger. If he needs help, there are nearby neighbors to pitch in.

It's what led Catlett back to farming, restoring an old abandoned property he and friends had long talked about. Flora and Andy make a go of it, becoming part of the membership of Port William. And then the accident....The question remains of whether Andy will find healing and a new kind of wholeness as he journeys home.

In this work, Berry weaves his own convictions about the destruction of an agricultural way of life, of communities, and the land with an perceptive exploration of what the loss of a hand can mean, and whether Andy will suffer destruction of his self, his marriage, and his way of life. There are achingly beautiful passages and deeply troubling ones as we plumb the depths of Andy's turmoil. Berry invites us to consider both the healing of deeply wounded people, as well as deeply wounded lands and communities. ( )
  BobonBooks | Dec 16, 2019 |
Powerful !!!!!! A day in the life of Andy Catlett.A soulful story of remembering who you are and where you came from.Redemption,integrity and dignity.A reminder we need to be true to our history and ourselves. Author, Wendell Berry is an American classic. ( )
  LauGal | Aug 16, 2016 |
..."that an argument was losing did not mean that it should not be made."

Wendell Berry's novels haunt me. Although somewhat choppy, his style has a simple eloquence. I do not necessarily agree with all of his premises or conclusions, but he does make me think. Berry's arguments do seem to be losing in our day and age, but I for one am glad that he is making them.

Most of all, I am intrigued by his emphasis on place, because I was born and raised among those who valued place in a similar way. There are times when I think he puts too much stock in the concept of place as it relates to this world, since I am fully persuaded that home and place can never be fully realized in this world - the very longing for it points us to another world.

But in this novel he does reveal a bit more of his "theology" of place, particularly at the end, which is reminiscent of Lewis' real Narnia within Narnia, and which even more importantly ties into the types and shadows with which this world overflows. The longing and reverence for home - for a place in this world - is strong; properly viewed and prioritized, it is an important tie which binds us to our covenant community as Christians (which has similarities what Berry calls "the membership" of the farming community in Port William).

I am grateful for the boundary lines fallen in pleasant places which the Lord has graciously given in my life, with their attendant love and commitment to home, family, and community. My community now is miles removed from the community where I grew up, but it is not altogether different, and for that I am also grateful. The world Berry portrays is one which I have glimpsed in the lives of grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins...and I realize that my children have little context for that world. I think I will ask them to read some of Berry's Port William canon to give a better idea of what has gone into the making of me, and consequently, the making of them. ( )
  greengables | Jun 8, 2012 |
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Fiction. Literature. It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky, he begins to remember people, the land, and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy's reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love. Inspiring and eye-opening, Remembering follows Andy's journey out of darkness and into the warm light of community.

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