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Lädt ... Das Buch der Kinder (Original 2009; 2011. Auflage)von Antonia S. Byatt, Melanie Walz (Übersetzer)
Werk-InformationenDas Buch der Kinder von A. S. Byatt (2009)
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The novel has a tendency to sprawl, with too many characters and too much to say. Yet Byatt takes tender care with the reader. She is a careful guide, and though this entry is at times a lot to process, it’s a worthwhile journey. While Byatt’s engagement with the period’s overlapping circles of artists and reformers is serious and deep, so much is stuffed into “The Children’s Book” that it can be hard to see the magic forest for all the historical lumber — let alone the light at the end of the narrative tunnel. The action is sometimes cut off at awkward moments by ponderous newsreel-style voice-over or potted lectures in cultural history. Startling revelations are dropped in almost nonchalantly and not picked up again until dozens or even hundreds of pages later. Byatt’s coda on the Great War, dispatched in scarcely more pages than the Exposition Universelle, is devastating in its restraint. But too often readers may feel as if they’re marooned in the back galleries of a museum with a frighteningly energetic docent. Byatt’s characters are themselves her dutiful puppets, always squeezed and shaped for available meaning. The Children’s Book has a cumulative energy and intelligence, and the unavoidable scythe of the Great War brings its own power to the narration, but nowhere in its hundreds of pages is there a single moment like the Countess Rostova’s free and mysterious irritation. As in her Booker Prize–winning novel, Possession, here Byatt has constructed a complete and complex world, a gorgeous bolt of fiction, in this case pinned to British events and characters from the 1870s to the end of the Great War...the magic is in the way Byatt suffuses her novel with details, from the shimmery sets of a marionette show to clay mixtures and pottery glazes. It begins with the discovery of a boy hiding in a museum. The time is 1895, the boy is Philip Warren, and the museum is the precursor to the Victoria & Albert: the South Kensington Museum. And, oh, yes –there’s a remarkable piece of art that the boy is besotted with — the Gloucester Candlestick. However, while this may make many children’s book mavens think immediately of E. L. Konigsburg’s classical story for children, let me say straight out — A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book is a book for grown-ups. It is emphatically not a children’s book although it is about children, about books, about art, about the writing of children’s books, about the telling of children’s stories, about the clash between life and art, and about a whole lot more. A saga of a book teeming with complex characters, fascinating settings, intellectual provocations, and erudite prose, it gets under your skin as you get deeper and deeper into it and won’t let you go even after you reach the last page.... Gehört zu VerlagsreihenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Ich habe das englische Buch gelesen. Es ist hervorragend geschrieben, sprachlich reich und tief, mit vielen Teilen, die ich mir aufgrund von Wortspielen usw. gar nicht übersetzt vorstellen kann.
Es geht um einen Kreis von Familien, die Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in England leben. Alle sind eher unkonventionell und modern, neue Ideen wie der Sozialismus werden eifrig diskutiert und zumindest ansatzweise gelebt. Olive Wellwood, die Mutter von sieben Kindern, ist eine bekannte Autorin von phantasievollen Kinderbüchern und märchenhaften Geschichten. Für jedes ihrer Kinder schreibt sie ein eigenes Buch. Die Kinder der Familien sind die eigentlichen Hauptfiguren. neben den Wellwood-Kindern gibt es noch ihre Cousinen und Cousins, Kinder befreundeter Familien und ein armes Geschwisterpaar, die bei einem befreundeten Töpfer aufwachsen. Das Buch erzählt lang und sehr episch das Aufwachsen dieser Kinder und nimmt dabei immer wieder Bezüge einerseits zu den magischen Geschichten Olive Wellwoods, andererseits auch zum historischen Geschehen der damaligen Zeit.
Das Buch endet mit dem ersten Weltkrieg, der ohne Rücksicht Tod und Verzweiflung bringt.
Ein wirklich tolles Buch! ( )