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Ladataan... A View of the Harbour : A Virago Modern Classic (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1947; vuoden 2018 painos)Tekijä: Elizabeth Taylor (Tekijä)
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A bit slow off the mark, this novel rewards the reader's perseverance with Taylor's usual cold-blooded portrayal of human nature. Her ordinary people are so full of common quirks, uncommon eccentricities, pettiness and occasionally a dash of generosity that one almost has to squirm with recognition as they play their roles out on the page. ( ) I do not know why I was not exposed to reading Elizabeth Taylor in school. Her depictions of everyday life and how she makes these so special is phenomenal. Her writing is captivating. Her dialogue is realistic, and her descriptions are thorough. I would have gained so much more from reading her prose than that which I was forced to read. This author is definitely underrated. This is the second book I've read of Ms. Taylor's and it won't be the last. I reviewed this for Full Stop: http://www.full-stop.net/2015/07/06/reviews/k-thomas-khan/a-view-of-the-harbour-... A View of the Harbour is a slice of life built around the smallness of a small town and the limits of every life within it. In this microcosm can be found love, envy, betrayal, longing, jealousy, unwelcome truth, and total misconception--all lived within the cruel spyglass of a place where too much is known about your life and too little about your soul. There is an ensemble cast of characters, most of whom are part and parcel of this harbour town, where the lighthouse illuminates only in passing and the shadows seem deep and impenetrable. “The lighthouse was the pivot, and the harbour buildings, the wall, the sea were continually shifting about it, re-grouping, so that it was seldom seen against the same background.” Like the harbour, the people seem to be constantly re-grouping. These people see each other only for a moment, in glimpses, and then indistinctly. Taylor seems to be telling us that the human soul is unfathomable and perhaps knowing another person is impossible, because the perspective changes drastically depending on the point of view taken. Guilt, she saw, treachery and deceit and self-indulgence. She did not see, as God might be expect to, their sensations of shame and horror, their compulsion towards one another, for which they dearly paid, nor in what danger they so helplessly stood, now, in middle-age, not in any safe harbour, but thrust out to sea with none of the brave equipment of youth to buoy them up, no romance, no delight. Into this fixed society comes a stranger, Bertram Hemingway, and it is through him that we see much of what is really going on beneath the surface. Bertram’s point of view is that of the outsider, and often clearer than those of the inhabitants themselves, but Bertram is just another person who suffers from a desperate desire to be remembered, to be distinguished somehow from the masses, while feeling acutely his own mediocrity. Elizabeth Taylor, the writer, who should not be confused with the film star, writes with marvelous perception and deceptive understatement. It might, in fact, seem that there is very little going on in her novels, until it strikes you that what is going on is life. Her writing seeps into your brain and lodges there, and you find yourself contemplating the complexities of her simple and ordinary people, who are so very like yourself.
This is another book like The Tamarack Tree and Give Us Our Dream where the threads of a number of lives are woven together to make a unified whole. The setting of the book is a tiny harbor town in England, and the fascinating story is concerned with family and with human relationships, especially between men and women. The characters are of all ages, ranging from a young child to an old woman, everyone a masterpiece of delineation. Quite aside from the sureness of Mrs. Taylor's characterization, and a plot which is absorbed in how a selfish and attractive woman can work havoc on all around her, the book is studded with wonderful comments and observations on life and people. It is clever, apt and feminine in every sense of that word. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinVirago Modern Classics (245)
""Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing--an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants--but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram. Taylor's novel is a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
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