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Ladataan... Rakkaamme (1948)Tekijä: Evelyn Waugh
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The movie is funny while also being cutting and insightful. The book is just mean-spirited. ( ) I first read this novel in high school and was impressed with it. It has not aged well: The culture of death has changed since Waugh wrote it, at least in the region of the US where I live. We embrace more of the reality of death with natural burials, cremation and scattering of ashes and even human composting. Informal memorial gatherings are gaining ground on formal funeral rites. What is left of Waugh's novel is the conflict between Hollywood and an old idea of Britain. En el curso de una gira de conferencias por los Estados Unidos, Evelyn Waugh descubrió los peculiares ritos funerarios de las antiguas colonias inglesas de ultramar. El resultado de la contemplación de este submundo delirante, edificado en los márgenes de la sociedad de la opulencia para recibir con babilónica grandiosidad a quienes la abandonan para siempre, fue Los seres queridos, una de las novelas de humor más negro de la literatura inglesa, en la tradición de Swift. Hilarious satire about the rather disgusting burial industry. It was, from what I remember (I read it about 42 years ago) a parody of Forest Lawn Cemetery in California. I read it in the wake of my father's death at the age of 47 when I was 15. The rather aggressive funeral director corresponded well to the book. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday-and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimee Thanatogenos, a naive Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Hachette Book GroupHachette Book Group on julkaissut painoksen tästä kirjasta. Penguin AustraliaPenguin Australia on kustantanut tämän kirjan 2 painosta. Painokset: 0141184248, 0141193492 |