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Ladataan... Deaf Sentence (vuoden 2009 painos)Tekijä: David Lodge
TeostiedotDeaf Sentence (tekijä: David Lodge)
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. El profesor Desmond Bates se acogió a la jubilación anticipada, pero no la disfruta. Añora la rutina fecunda del año académico y ha perdido el interés por la investigación. El tardío éxito profesional y el aspecto rejuvenecido de su mujer cobran cada vez mayor pujanza. Pero estos descontentos no son nada comparados con la congoja de la pérdida auditiva, que es una fuente constante de fricción doméstica y de dificultad social. Divertida y conmovedora, La vida en sordina es un brillante relato de los esfuerzos de un hombre por asumir la sordera y la muerte, la vejez y la mortalidad, la comedia y la tragedia de la existencia humana.  Natt90 | Feb 28, 2023 |  I always enjoy David Lodge. He's one of those writers who is extremely good at seeing--and writing about--social interactions, men and women, parent and child...and he's funny on top of that. Deaf Sentence has the added bonus of bringing deafness and linguistics into the mix, adding two more layers to those relationships. (  ) giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 | Herlezen, daarom geen uitvoerige bespreking. Leuk, spits, een beetje suikerzoet aan het eind, typische Lodge campus novel, maar hoofdpersoon Desmond is met emeritaat. Hij laat zich manipuleren door knappe Amerikaanse onscrupuleuze PhD studente Alex die hem kan chanteren omdat hij zijn tweede vrouw 'Fred' (Winifred, zijn koosnaam geeft aan wie de broek aan heeft) niet alles heeft verteld. Running gag, en inderdaad geestig, is zijn doofheid. Het verschil tussen death en deaf is moeilijk te horen, vandaar de titel. Daardoor ook interessante bespiegelingen over dood (zelfmoord is het thema van Alex' thesis) en doofheid, daarnaast over het tragische van blindheid versus het komische (en irritante) van doofheid. De troost van liplezen tussen gewone, onuniversitaire mensen. Desmonds vader is oud, lower middle class en benepen; hij wordt dement en sterft. Desmonds dochter krijgt een kind. Hij zelf brengt een ingrijpend bezoek aan Auschwitz. Het leven gaat door. ( ) Harm-Jan | Oct 28, 2019 | I have conflicted feelings about Deaf Sentence. For the first hundred pages or so, I was blown away by Lodge's treatment of his subject matter, which is so authentic that it could only be autobiographical. Lodge's narrator, Desmond, is a retired academic in is mid-sixties who is slowly losing his hearing; his disease is incurable and will ultimately leave him completely without hearing. Desmond, a linguist, discusses the nature of his disease with breathtaking honesty and insight, and recounts the affects of his deafness on his marriage, his academic career, and his relationships with others, including his father. Deaf Sentence is a novel in diary entries and, occasionally, apologetically, in the third person ("I feel a fit of the third person coming on"). When it's good, it is very, very good, but Lodge is balancing too many plot lines: we have Desmond and his wife, Desmond and the eccentric graduate student, Desmond and his father, Desmond and himself. Lodge technically wraps up each each plot trajectory, but the book is a slim 300 pages, and it felt like a squeeze to close each story. The sensitivity with which Lodge writes of deafness makes this book a wonderful read for those interested in hearing loss, but the plot was lacking and somewhat unsatisfying. (  ) bookishblond | Oct 24, 2018 | Thoughtful and amusing excerpts about high frequency deafness which helped me understand better what going deaf feels like. Full growing characters were created. I enjoyed. (  )1  Lylee | Apr 3, 2016 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and househusband, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father, an ex dance musician who stubbornly refuses to move from the house he is patently unable to live in with safety. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman whose wayward and unpredictable behaviour threatens to destabilise his life completely. Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a brilliant account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, ageing and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human lives. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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