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Lädt ... Bardo or Not Bardo (2004)von Antoine Volodine
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Présumant que le défunt est obligé par son karma de traverser les quarante-neuf jours du Bardo, et qu'il doit rencontrer, sur le chemin de la renaissance, de terribles visions et obstacles, un lama lit le Bardo Thöddol, le Livre des morts tibétain, pour l'aider à triompher des dangers qui le menacent. Mais que se passe-t-il lorsque le mort refuse d'écouter les conseils ? Ou lorsque l'existence dans le Bardo lui plaît au point qu'il ne veuille plus en sortir ? Où lorsque le lama, au lieu de réciter le texte sacré, se met à lire à haute voix un livre de cuisine et des poèmes ? Que se passe-t-il quand au monde des mystiques se superpose le monde des fous, des révolutionnaires ratés, des imbéciles et des sous-hommes ? L'écrivain et acteur Bogdan Schlumm tente de mettre en scène les réponses à ces questions. Personne ne l'écoute. Les arbres l'entourent, les oiseaux lui fientent dessus. Il est très seul. A spiritual farce? A human comedy? A satiric view of the absurdity of humans? All of the above? Volodine takes a belief regarding the afterlife and demonstrates that humans, with their foibles, cannot manage to navigate it without total chaos ensuing. The author even takes a stab at the "play within a play" concept. Three vignettes within one vignette. It is a jumbled life, a jumbled afterlife, and a bit of a jumbled read. Very well done! Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Takes place in his universe of failed revolutions, radical shamanism, and off-kilter nomenclature. In each of these seven vignettes, someone dies and has to make their way through the Tibetan afterlife, also known as the Bardo. In the Bardo, souls wander for forty-nine days before being reborn, helped along on their journey by the teachings of the Book of the Dead. Unfortunately, Volodine's characters bungle their chances at enlightenment, with the recently dead choosing to waste away their afterlife sleeping, or choosing to be reborn as an insignificant spider. The still-living aren't much better off, making a mess of things in their own ways, such as erroneously reciting a Tibetan cookbook to a lost comrade instead of the holy book"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This novel in stories depicts a bleak future, where corruption and revolutionary failure has driven many to Buddhism. All the protagonists find themselves in the Bardo state between death and rebirth. That element is certainly difficult for this reader to swallow.
Volodine uses some interesting elements, bricolage, improvised technology, and even the dire image of someone reading an anarchist tract aloud to direct a fallen comrade in the afterlife.
There is a layer of humor but it appears to be a result of the pervasive disorientation which everyone feels in that between state. ( )