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Lädt ... The Restless Supermarketvon Ivan Vladislavić
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is a tough one for me to evaluate. The protagonist, Aubrey Tearle, is a retired proofreader of telephone books in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. I assume he's in his early seventies at the time the book opens, pretty spry and has his marbles. When he first retired he started frequenting the Cafe Europa in a shopping mall, that was, for a time, everything he dreamed a cafe could be. He makes some friends, who find his lists (say, of shops with ridiculous names, of buildings named after women, of people with odd names that reflect their work, and so on) and comes up with an idea for creating "A proofreader's derby" that is, writing up a document full of errors and then having a contest. Slowly the group of friends drift apart and then the Europa itself changes hands and deteriorates and is now going to close. There will be a closing party and Tearle fantasizes of at last presenting his now finished Proofreader's Derby opus, but instead comes up againt . . . well, you have to read the book. I've rarely read a book where I have felt so constantly jerked in and out of the story because of the quirks and twitches (and glitches) in the text, and something else in the style of writing that I could never quite decide if was the way it was because it's first person and so it is Aubrey Tearle's "voice" or if it was a genuine inconsistency in the writing style itself, fluid and character-driven one moment, and then retreating into verbal fireworks the next. I'd like to give Vladislavic the benefit of the doubt, but I am not entirely convinced that the book itself isn't just a wee bit cleverer than the author could manage to pull off. The flight of fancy that is the text for the Derby was great reading as was most of the last part of the book, although I felt that same confusion reading the final paragraph that haunted the book. I did persevere, I did finish, but I am not sure why. I suspect that this is a book that many other readers would like and I think it has merit. ***1/2 ( ) Ivan Vladislavic moet je in het Engels lezen, denk ik. De vertaler doet wat hij kan, maar er gaat in het Nederlands iets van het leesplezier verloren. Ik deed er lang over. Weken. Ik wijt het aan dat speelse, dat wel door de kieren te betrappen is, maar misschien door de vertaling op een te kleine ruimte is losgelaten. Het is een allegorie, soms te opzichtig. Maar het boek staat boordevol gekke zijsprongen, kronkels die naar adem doen happen. De proeflezer is niet zo ongrijpbaar als de puzzelfanaat van Perec, laat staan even sympathiek. Maar hij is zo wereldvreemd, dat hij in een boek over een zijn wonden likkend Zuid-Afrika volledig tot zijn recht komt. Zeige 2 von 2
The novel is also a masterpiece of voice, one that fits Tearle with miraculous perfection: pedantic; uptight; sneeringly undemocratic; periphrastic, sometimes; punning; sustainedly, outrageously witty. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenAnd Other Stories (16) Auszeichnungen
"Vladislavic is amazing!"--Teju Cole It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favorite neighborhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious, and poignant. Ivan Vladislavic is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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