KotiRyhmätKeskusteluLisääAjan henki
Etsi sivustolta
Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.

Tulokset Google Booksista

Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.

Ladataan...

Olga (2018)

Tekijä: Bernhard Schlink

JäseniäKirja-arvostelujaSuosituimmuussijaKeskimääräinen arvioMaininnat
17410155,608 (3.89)9
Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.
Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.

When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures

Unfolding across decades??from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century??and across continents??from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west??Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman's devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines??revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable.

Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink's magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman
… (lisätietoja)
A lire (1)
(16)
Ladataan...

Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et.

Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.

» Katso myös 9 mainintaa

englanti (4)  saksa (4)  ranska (1)  italia (1)  Kaikki kielet (10)
Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 10) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
The woman at the center of this story is strong and determined but on almost all sides she is hindered often times by the men around her. (see more on plot) ( )
  maryreinert | Jan 28, 2022 |
Like many other readers, I first encountered Bernhard Schlink as the author of The Reader, a book which certainly had an emotional impact on me. Even though I read it almost 25 years ago, I remember it well. I was excited therefore to encounter Schlink’s latest book to be translated into English.

Olga Rinke is a poor, orphaned village girl who falls in love with Herbert Schröder, her aristocratic neighbour and childhood friend. His parents disapprove of the relationship, but the two continue to meet, though there are long periods of time when they are apart. Olga fights against the prejudices and restrictions she faces because she is poor and a woman. She manages to get an education and become a teacher. Herbert is a man consumed by wanderlust. He yearns for vast, empty spaces. He travels to Africa, South America and the Arctic with little concern for the dangers. A poem he writes indicates his philosophy for living: “First look, consider, then leap, without delay!/ Better in the bloom of life to be snatched away/In the struggle to serve humanity – to dare – /Than a hobbled old age, an existence free of care.”

The novel has three parts. The first part is a third person, dispassionate telling of Olga’s life from her birth in the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The second section is a first person reflection on Olga’s life; it focuses on the later years of her life until her death in the early 1970s; the narrator is Ferdinand who got to know Olga when she came to work for his family in the 1950s. The last part is epistolary; it consists of a series of letters written by Olga to Herbert after he left on a trip to the Arctic just before the beginning of World War I.

Olga is a very interesting character. She is independent and resourceful, a woman very much out of step with her time. She is an original thinker who rejects ideology. Herbert and Eik, a young man she sees grow up, embrace Germany’s nationalism and desire for greatness and conquest. She thinks “Germany was aiming to be too big. Bismarck had already wanted and made it too big in his time. And a second world war would follow the first.” In the end, “Too big – it was to this that Olga thought she had lost Herbert and Eik, what she held Bismarck responsible for.” Her actions support her beliefs: she refuses to teach Nazi racial theory in school and cuts off ties with a person she loves because that person espouses beliefs she cannot accept.

I did not always understand Olga’s love for and loyalty to Herbert. His arrogance, for instance, does not make him an attractive person. He travels to Argentina with “idlers with a penchant for travel and adventure.” Although he doesn’t see himself this way, that’s the perfect description of him. He is enthralled with “German discipline, German audacity, and German heroism.” He can be admired for believing “he could do anything. All he had to do was not give up” but his recklessness and lack of concern for how his choices impact others, especially Olga, cannot be ignored. His refusal to consider the morality of Germany’s actions in Africa shows him to be narrow-minded.

Of course, as Olga points out, “Love doesn’t keep a tally of the other’s good and bad qualities.” Her love for Herbert is not blind. She admits that he is cowardly and stupid and sweet, “But sweetness cannot compete with stupidity and cowardice.” She tells Herbert that Eik has similar traits: “his decisiveness and fearlessness, the artless egotism with which he hurts others without meaning to hurt them – he simply doesn’t see them. When he’s excited about something, when he succeeds in doing something, he lights up.” She understands Herbert’s limitations: “Olga knew that he loved her and was as close to her as he was able to be with another human being. He was also as happy with her as he was able to be with another human being. He denied her nothing he was able to give. What she felt she lacked he wasn’t capable of giving.” She describes Herbert as loyal, but it is she who is unfailingly so.

This novel had me doing some research. For instance, I knew virtually nothing about the Herero genocide or the search for the Northeast Passage. A better knowledge of German history would have helped me. In my research, I discovered that Herbert seems to have been based on a real person, Herbert Schröder-Stranz. In the novel, mention is made of the fact that “Herbert later hyphenated [Schröder] with the name of the village, because he didn’t want to be one Schröder among many.”

Olga doesn’t have the emotional impact of The Reader, but it is a good book. Olga is a character that will remain with me for a while. She is a strong, resilient person who remains true to herself and who loves despite being disappointed in those she loves.

Note: Please check out my reader's blog (https://schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/) and follow me on Twitter (@DCYakabuski). ( )
  Schatje | Dec 22, 2021 |
Always liked reading Schlink books. This one was good, an unusual story and ending. ( )
  Lovedogstoo | Dec 7, 2021 |
For a straightforward book, this is a bit hard to sum up. It's the story of one woman's life from a couple of points of view—her narrative, that of a man who was a boy and then a man in her company, and then a third section of her letters to her absent lover. Understated and old-wordly, this is a lovely, solemn novel of the many ways a person can be lonely—including while being loved—and still have a life that matters in ways large and small. ( )
1 ääni lisapeet | Apr 17, 2021 |
Une très belle réussite. Un portrait lisible et fractionné. Un grand petit livre. ( )
  Nikoz | May 23, 2019 |
Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 10) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu

Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihin

Sinun täytyy kirjautua sisään voidaksesi muokata Yhteistä tietoa
Katso lisäohjeita Common Knowledge -sivuilta (englanniksi).
Teoksen kanoninen nimi
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Alkuteoksen nimi
Teoksen muut nimet
Alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi
Henkilöt/hahmot
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Tärkeät paikat
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Tärkeät tapahtumat
Kirjaan liittyvät elokuvat
Epigrafi (motto tai mietelause kirjan alussa)
Omistuskirjoitus
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
"Sie macht keine Mühe, am liebsten steht sie und schaut."
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
(Napsauta nähdäksesi. Varoitus: voi sisältää juonipaljastuksia)
Erotteluhuomautus
Julkaisutoimittajat
Kirjan kehujat
Alkuteoksen kieli
Tiedot saksankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Kanoninen DDC/MDS
Kanoninen LCC

Viittaukset tähän teokseen muissa lähteissä.

Englanninkielinen Wikipedia

-

Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.
Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.

When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures

Unfolding across decades??from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century??and across continents??from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west??Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman's devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines??revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable.

Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink's magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman

Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt.

Kirjan kuvailu
Yhteenveto haiku-muodossa

Current Discussions

-

Suosituimmat kansikuvat

Pikalinkit

Arvio (tähdet)

Keskiarvo: (3.89)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2 2
2.5
3 6
3.5 3
4 13
4.5 3
5 9

Oletko sinä tämä henkilö?

Tule LibraryThing-kirjailijaksi.

 

Lisätietoja | Ota yhteyttä | LibraryThing.com | Yksityisyyden suoja / Käyttöehdot | Apua/FAQ | Blogi | Kauppa | APIs | TinyCat | Perintökirjastot | Varhaiset kirja-arvostelijat | Yleistieto | 203,187,783 kirjaa! | Yläpalkki: Aina näkyvissä