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Ladataan... The Copenhagen Papers: An IntrigueTekijä: Michael Frayn, David Burke (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I am not sure what I expected from this, I grabbed it because I enjoy the play Copenhagen and also have enjoyed Frayn's other writing but it was an odd one and I am not really sure I enjoyed it. During the production of the play Frayn starts to receive documents that could have been written by the German physicists who were interned in England after the war. Where it goes from there is strange and not really all that interesting and ends up being treated with much more seriousness than I think is really deserved. The chapters are written alternately by Micheal Frayn and David Burke, the actor who plays Bohr in the play and for reasons that quickly become clear is rather important in the narrative. I don't think I really enjoyed it and it spun off way too much in philosophical musings at the end that the weight of the story really didn't really warrant but I did finish it and thought about it alot. I think I would just rather see a good production of the play instead. Sorry, my very dear Michael Frayn, but this book is a serious piece of wankery if ever I saw one. There is also a dreadful piece of proofreading, a whole page appearing at page 76 and then again at page 96. Page 76 is entirely missing, it is correctly placed at p. 96, should you possibly care. But I can see that you don't. During the performance of his play 'Copenhagen' the writer of the play is given some papers from a country house in England where German scientists were held prisoner at the end of WWII. 'Copenhagen' the play has only three characters, based on real life people, one of whom was the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who was kept at the country house in question. Do these papers reveal insights into the conundrum at the heart of 'Copenhagen'? This book is about a lot more than just the history of nuclear physics or WWII. Written in alternating sections by Michael Frayn and David Burke, who played Niels Bohr, another character in 'Copenhagen', this soon becomes an exploration about the craft of writing, belief, and interpretation. Despite the deep topics, there is a lot of humour in this book, and it is written with a light and very readable touch. While having seen 'Copenhagen' is a great advantage to enjoying this book (and the made for television version of the play is superb), it is really the interplay between the two writers that gives this book its appeal. Highly recommended näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Saanut innoituksensa tästä:Copenhagen (tekijä: Michael Frayn)
One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart. They turned out to mark the start of a long and winding trail. The subject of Copenhagen is the strange visit that the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, made to his former Danish colleague, Niels Bohr in 1941. The two old friends now found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg could not explain to Bohr that he was running the Nazis' secret atomic programme. His intentions have intrigued and baffled historians, and the hitherto unpublished German documents which Celia Rhys-Evans now began to send Michael Frayn cast a remarkable new light on certain aspects of the story. The gradual emergence of these papers was followed with particularly close interest by the actor, David Burke, who was playing Niels Bohr, and who had happened to have a wide experience of documents of this sort. When it was all over David Burke and Michael Frayn sat down together, rather as Bohr and Heisenberg do in the play, to try to unravel the mystery, and, like Bohr and Heisenberg, to confront once again the eternal difficulty of knowing why we do what we do. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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