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Lädt ... Hotel Splendid (European Women Writers) (1986)von Marie Redonnet
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Wow. What an unrelenting disaster that constantly gets remade and disfigured. Redonnet's creation is set against a backdrop of water and swallowing sands. In addition to the sponge-like rotting of anything made of wood, everything else is corroding and falling into disrepair. Especially the humans. Even birds. Disease and discomfort permeate the novel as does the swamp's encroachment on anything thought to be stable. The constant bombardment of reality disrupts the head-in-the-clouds utopia wishing to prevail. This is a dream no one should want. And it never stops. Why does anyone read a book like this? And then, why not? ( ) Vingt-trois chants où le "je" d'une femme sans nom, sans âge, sans visage, dit la Passion du Splendid Hôtel, son trésor, sa chose, légué par grand-mère qui l'a fait construire au bord du marais virulent. Splendid Hôtel déjà délabré, attaqué, miné, et qui ne cessera d'endurer tous les fléaux, de souffrir de tous les maux, dont le pire : la tendance fatale de ses sanitaires à se boucher, la narratrice toujours occupée à les déboucher. Laborieuse, infatigable narratrice, toute consacrée aux soins du Splendid Hôtel, dévouée aux malheureux clients - les anonymes, attirés par les enseignes clignotantes, et les professionnels du chemin de fer venus imposer au marais leur grand oeuvre -, harcelée qu'elle est pendant ce temps par ses deux surs parasites, Ada la malade et Adel la comédienne ratée, l'une et l'autre semant sans cesse le trouble et la zizanie. Redonnet's novels have been compared to those of Annie Ernaux, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett. She has since acknowledged the crucial influence which Beckett's work has had upon her literary work. And yet she is also notably different from the great master of modern literature. "Where Beckett's characters slide almost inevitably toward extinction, resignation, and silence," Stump points out, "Redonnet's display a force for life and creation that borders on the triumphant. . . . [They] retain even in the darkest situations a remarkable persistence, openness, and above all hope, a hope that may well be, however unspectacularly, repaid in the end." If you like novels about 3 very odd narcistic sisters living in a deteriorating hotel sitting on a an ever-growing swamp then Hotel Splendid is for you. As a reader, I generally don't like criticizing books because I have tremendous respect for writers and the part of themselves they put into creating something out of nothing. But this was a waste of my time; perhaps it will be time well spent for you. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary French author, Marie Redonnet. Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works. In translator Jordan Stump's words, these three novels, "unmistakably fit together, although they have neither characters nor setting in common. Redonnet sees the three novels as a triptych: each panel stands alone, and yet all coalesce to form a whole." Each is narrated by a different woman. Hôtel Splendid recounts the daily life of three sisters who live in a decrepit hotel on the edge of a swamp; Forever Valley is aboutnbsp;a sixteen-year-old girl who works in a dance-hall and looks for the dead; Rose Mellie Rose is the story of another adolescent girl who assembles a photographic and written record of her life in the dying town of Ôat. Redonnet's novels have been compared to those of Annie Ernaux, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett. She has since acknowledged the crucial influence which Beckett's work has had upon her literary work. And yet she is also notably different from the great master of modern literature. "Where Beckett's characters slide almost inevitably toward extinction, resignation, and silence," Stump points out, "Redonnet's display a force for life and creation that borders on the triumphant. . . . [They] retain even in the darkest situations a remarkable persistence, openness, and above all hope, a hope that may well be, however unspectacularly, repaid in the end." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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