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Lädt ... Die unterirdische Schlacht (1982)von Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. El mejor libro sobre las Malvinas! Y uno de los mejores sobre la guerra ( ) historia de un grupo de soldados argentinos, conscriptos del 82, enviados por la dictadura militar a las Islas Malvinas, que desertan y se ocultan en un refugio subterráneo que habían construido los primeros en abandonar. Para el ejército oficialmente no existen, han sido dados muertos por la tropa. Su único objetivo es sobrevivir, confiando que la guerra acabe y puedan volver a casa. America seems to take an almost chauvinistic approach to literature, displaying little or no interest in works originally written in another language and then translated into English. The potential disconnect with Malvinas Requiem will probably start with the title. Regardless, those who have called it Argentina's Catch-22 just may be justified in doing so. The Falklands War may ring a bell with most Americans. Very few, though, probably know that in Spanish, Argentina's official language, the Falkland Islands were las Malvinas. Thus, from the outset the book reflects the perspective Rodolfo Fogwill takes on the conflict -- the viewpoint of about two dozen deserters from the Argentinian army who are hiding out underground. With the focus on characters hiding underground and generally emerging only at night, the book was titled Los Pichiciegos when first published in Argentina. Pichiciegos is a small armadillo native to central Argentina that is considered an endangered species. Accordingly, the novel called the men in the hideout "pichis." While the title changed in the English version, the translation remains true to the original as it refers to them as "dillos." (Although the book could have been helped provide greater context with notes or other explanatory material for items related to Argentina's history with which many English-speaking readers may be unfamiliar.) Life as a "dillo" is far from exciting. Most of the time is spent sleeping, smoking, talking or just thinking. The boredom is outweighed only by the ramifications of leaving their shelter, something only a few designated ones do at night to gather supplies and even trade with nearby British soldiers. Fogwill helps reflect the feeling by there being little sense in conversations of who among the men is saying what. At times, the reader might even wonder which of the various characters is actually the narrator. Malvinas Requiem also expresses the attitude and at times dry humor of the soldiers toward the war itself. On the first sunny day in three weeks, one decides that, as far as he is concerned, the British could keep the islands. "You had to be British, or like the British, to want to come and freeze your arse off here, when over there lay Argentina, so fine and wide and with the sun shining down on it." Balance of review at http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/09/20/book-review-malvinas-requiem/ Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
It's early June 1982 and winter in the Falkland Islands: 24 young soldiers ?deserters from the Argentine army ?spend the last weeks of the conflict hiding underground in a cave. Inside their refuge they listen to the radio, stockpile supplies and exchange stories; outside, under cover of night, they trade with the Argentine Quartermaster and with the British. Looking out over the bleak landscape, after weeks of grey skies and horizontal snow, one of them remarks that ?you'd have to be English to want this'. But the rationale of their own side is just as puzzling. The ?pichis?, as they call themselves ? short for pichiciegos, tiny blind armadillos that live underground in northern Argentina ? are a temporary tribe of survivors from different parts of the country (just as the English all seem to them to be either Scottish, Welsh or Gurkhas) with the bad luck to have been born in the early 1960s. Written before the surrender and recently reissued in Argentina, Fogwill's Malvinas Requiem is shocking, subtle and superbly written. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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