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Ladataan... Trust (2022)Tekijä: Hernan Diaz
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   ) RaynaPolsky | Apr 21, 2024 |  In the first part, Bonds, ostensibly a bestselling novel authored by one Harold Vanner, a monkish mogul manages to make a massive windfall during the 1929 stock market crash while his wife tragically succumbs to mental illness far away in Switzerland. My Life is the partial autobiography of Andrew Bevel, clearly the model for the tycoon in Bonds, strewn with half-finished chapters and paragraph outlines. The first few pages of Futures, the scribbled diaries of Andrew’s wife, Mildred, have been randomly ripped out. The Bevels’ competing narratives are mediated by a long postmortem memoir, written by Ida Partenza, once the gullible ghostwriter of Andrew’s book. Thought this was a fascinating read. Really enjoyed putting to together the puzzle of the pieces of the story told from the different perspective. Whilst this innovative format has been done before, this was elegantly written and it's a really enjoyable book. I had selected Trust as my Book of the Month this month on my site https://quizlit.org/book-of-the-month-april-2023 (  ) Quizlitbooks | Apr 20, 2024 | The first part is a short novel, a novella really, about a successful financier and his tragically ill wife and their relationship. There's a lot about money and investing. The second part is about a successful financier and his tragically ill wife and their relationship. This time, the relationship seems much shallower and paternalistic. I finished this second part thinking, wtf? This is the same story as the first, essentially. Why is this book nominated for the Pulitzer? I had to read some reviews to understand that the first part is a novel based on the second part, which is an autobiography. It's very meta. Both parts break the fourth wall, with editorial notes and writerly intentions of things to come. The book has a great deal of self-awareness. I can understand why critics might laud it, since it has an innovative structure and premise. But is it good to read? As a reader, so far I don't find it engaging. The entire thing is pure exposition. No dialogue, no emotion on the page, no individual scenes. Just the author telling us two different versions of "what happened" between the financier and his wife. There's a certain amount of narrative drive, which I credit to the skill of the author. But it's just not that interesting. Haven't decided yet if I'll go further. ------------ Okay, going further. Third part is much more interesting, the POV of the secretary engaged by the financier on whose life the first part is based. He wants to put the record straight and tell the 'true' story of his life. The second part of the book is the story written by the secretary, dictated and edited by the financier. Part of the secretary's POV is when she is much older, doing actual research on the financier's wife instead of taking notes from the financier. The secretary is convinced that neither story contains the true portrayal of the wife. The fourth part is the wife's actual journal, and the prose here is beautiful and filled with subtext. We at last get the true story -- or do we? My overall opinion of this novel is that the structure is very interesting and complex, and that the author, Hernan Diaz, did a really nice job of writing in several different 'voices.' I enjoyed the second half of this story quite a bit. From a craft perspective, I would give this work 5 stars. What he has done is very difficult to do well. However, as a reader, I thought the first half of the book was a slog, and was confused by the similarity of the two parts. You almost have to go into it with the knowledge that the thing works better as a whole, and how the parts are interrelated. Because of that, I'm dropping the rating to 4 stars, which is still generous given the fact that I almost put it down. The title becomes apropos. One must trust that the author is going to deliver something worth reading. ( ) TheGalaxyGirl | Mar 25, 2024 | En los triunfales años veinte, Benjamin Rask y su esposa Helen dominan Nueva York: él, un magnate financiero que ha amasado una fortuna; ella, la hija de unos excéntricos aristócratas. Pero a medida que la década se acerca a su fin, y sus excesos revelan un lado oscuro, a los Rask empiezan a rodearlos las sospechas… Ese es el punto de partida de Obligaciones, una exitosa novela de 1937 que todo Nueva York parece haber leído y que cuenta una historia que puede, sin embargo, contarse de algunas otras formas. Hernán Díaz compone en Fortuna un magistral puzle literario: una suma de voces, de versiones confrontadas que se complementan, se matizan y se contradicen, y, al hacerlo, ponen al lector ante las fronteras y los límites entre la realidad y la ficción, entre la verdad –acaso imposible de encontrar– y su versión manipulada. Fortuna explora los entresijos del capitalismo americano, el poder del dinero, las pasiones y las traiciones que mueven las relaciones personales y la ambición que todo lo malea. ( ) MigueLoza | Mar 18, 2024 |  ) SharronA | Mar 17, 2024 |
Though framed as a novel, “Trust” is actually an intricately constructed quartet of stories — what Wall Street traders would call a 4-for-1 stock split.... In summary “Trust” sounds repellently overcomplicated, but in execution it’s an elegant, irresistible puzzle. The novel isn’t just about the way history and biography are written; it’s a demonstration of that process. By the end, the only voice I had any faith in belonged to Diaz. Trust by Hernan Diaz is one of those novels that's always pulling a fast one on a reader. Take the opening section: You settle in, become absorbed in the story and, then, 100 pages or so later — Boom! — the novel lurches into another narrative that upends the truth of everything that came before.... Trust is all about money, particularly, the flimflam force of money in the stock market, and its potential, as a character says, "to bend and align reality" to its own purposes.... Literary fiction, too, is a fantastic commodity in which our best writers become criminals of the imagination, stealing our attention and our very desires. Diaz, whose last novel, In the Distance, reworked the myths of masculine individualism in the American West, makes an artistic fortune in Trust. And we readers make out like bandits, too. Trust: both a moral quality and a financial arrangement, as though virtue and money were synonymous. The term also has a literary bearing: Can we trust this tale? Is this narrator reliable? ... Taken together, the four parts make “Trust” into a strangely self-reflexive work: strangely, because unlike some metafictional exercises this book does more than chase its own tail. The true circularity here lies in the workings of capital, in a monetary system so self-referential that it has forgotten what Diaz himself remembers. For “Trust” always acknowledges the world that lies outside its own pages. It recognizes the human costs of a great fortune, even though its characters can see nothing beyond their own calculations; they are most guilty when most innocent, most enthralled by the abstraction of money itself. ...a kaleidoscope of capitalism run amok in the early 20th century, which also manages to deliver a biography of its irascible antihero and the many lives he disfigures during his rise to the cream of the city’s crop. Grounded in history and formally ambitious, this succeeds on all fronts. Once again, Diaz makes the most of his formidable gifts Structurally, Diaz’s novel is a feat of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of David Mitchell or Richard Powers. Diaz has a fine ear for the differing styles each type of document requires: Bonds is engrossing but has a touch of the fusty, dialogue-free fiction of a century past, and Ida is a keen, Lillian Ross–type observer. But more than simply succeeding at its genre exercises, the novel brilliantly weaves its multiple perspectives to create a symphony of emotional effects; what’s underplayed by Harold is thundered by Andrew, provided nuance by Ida, and given a plot twist by Mildred. So the novel overall feels complex but never convoluted, focused throughout on the dissatisfactions of wealth and the suppression of information for the sake of keeping up appearances. No one document tells the whole story, but the collection of palimpsests makes for a thrilling experience and a testament to the power and danger of the truth—or a version of it—when it’s set down in print. A clever and affecting high-concept novel of high finance. PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily "A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair "A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed." --Esquire "Captivating."--NPR "Exhilarating." --New York TimesAn unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth--all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Hernan Diaz's TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another--and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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