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Lädt ... My Father's Dreamsvon Evald Flisar
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Both characters and reader are never quite sure what is dream and what is reality in this book. Adam is a boy whose father is a doctor who likes to experiment. To what extent he is experimenting with Adam, how much of it is in Adam's head, or how much Adam is deceiving himself we are never sure. Starting off rooted in what is probably reality, the book is perfectly paced so that gradually we are less and less sure if we are in Adam's dreams or not. The dreams are about sex, family, journeys, and illness. Whilst Freud is signposted (as are biblical references in the characters names), there are still multiple interpretations that can be overlaid on the narrative. There is an awful lot in this short read, which is unsettling -- but utterly compelling. I'm grateful to translator Alan McConnell-Duff and publisher Istros Books for giving me the chance to read this important Slovene book. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
My Father's Dreams is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia's bestselling author Evald Flisar, and is regarded by many critics as his best. The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Adam, the only son of a village doctor and his quiet wife, living in apparent rural harmony. But this is a topsy-turvy world of illusions and hopes, in which the author plays with the function of dreaming and story-telling to present the reader with an eccentric 'bildungsroman' in reverse. Spiced with unusual and original overtones of the grotesque, the history of an insidious deception is revealed, in which the unsuspecting son and his mother will be the apparent victims; and yet who can tell whether the gruesome end is reality or just another dream - This is a novel that can be read as an off-beat crime story, a psychological horror tale, a dream-like morality fable, or as a dark and ironic account of one man's belief that his personality and his actions are two different things. It can also be read as a story about a boy who has been robbed of his childhood in the cruelest way. It is a book which has the force of myth: revealing the fundamentals without drawing any particular attention to them; an investigation into good and evil, and our inclination to be drawn to the latter. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8435Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Slovene Slovene fictionKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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Het hele verhaal lang weet je nooit of Adam nu droomt of niet. En bestaat Eva wel echt of is dat een fantasie? Als er geen logische verklaring voor gegeven kan worden, vind ik het wel erg gemakkelijk schrijven; je kunt dan immers álles bij elkaar fantaseren.
Nee, van mij slechts een half puntje.... ( )