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Lädt ... Der Anthologist (2009)von Nicholson Baker
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. https://shawjonathan.com/2023/08/04/winter-reads-5-nicholson-bakers-anthologist-... ( ) A book I would recommend to anyone interested in poetry, and a book that has me thinking more and more about formalist poetry. I've gone back and revisited a lot of poets' work while making my way through The Anthologist: it is part of the joy in reading a book like this. It's a book about poetry, but the one issue I take with it is that it's supposedly a novel: as far as plot and the narrator's ongoing quest to write the introduction for an anthology of rhymed verse he's collected, The Anthologist is a mess. On the other hand, it's filled with poetic tidbits: the history of rhyme; the debates about iambic pentameter; poetic quarrels; the lives and work of many poets and their intersecting paths. It was a pleasure to read solely for these poetic meanderings, lessons in scansion and rhythm, the account of Bogan's affair with Roethke, and how poetry is an inescapable and necessary part of our daily lives. I read this book only after accidentally reading its sequel (The Traveling Sprinkler) first. I loved the sequel and loved this one even more. Paul Chowder is a wonderful character, innocent and sweet and earnest but with the occasional hint of darkness; his voice is a real delight. All the bits about poetic scansion and history appealed to me and almost made me want to start reading poetry again; I don't know how broad the appeal of these parts could possibly be. I'll read this one again. I want to read Paul Chowder all the time, from the most mundane antics to his musings on poetry and rhyme there wasn't a moment in this book I wasn't entirely engrossed in his menial day-to-day activities. Perhaps this reflects as much on my own neurosis as anything else but either way I highly recommend this one.
The Anthologist is an enjoyable novel with many shrewd and hilarious observations on poets and poetry that regretfully leaves out the most important thing about the hero. The romance is a thing of sweetness and delicacy, but the events are small, as they so often are in Baker's books. In his hands, remember, even World War II, the Greatest Generation's greatest epic, turned into a string of anecdotal pearls, most of them no longer than a paragraph. Like watching paint dry, is the dismissive phrase some might apply to his micro-narratives, which is exactly the wrong one, since I'm sure Baker could write a charming, brilliant book about paint drying if he felt like it. Mr. Baker has written “The Anthologist” (a mild-mannered effort that could not be less like his previous book, “Human Smoke”) as if it were a rambling... monologue, a long chat emanating from the sock level of the poetry world. He slips effortlessly into the eager, friendless voice of a man who is every bit as glamorous and dynamic as his name suggests. Nicholson Baker has written a novel about poetry that’s actually about poetry — and that is also startlingly perceptive and ardent, both as a work of fiction and as a representation of the kind of thinking that poetry readers do. Gehört zur ReihePaul Chowder (1) AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
"The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder - a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a little longer than he'd thought." "What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to the staff of The New Yorker, what Paul reveals is astonishing and makes one realize how incredibly important poetry is to our lives. At the same time, Paul barely manages to realize all of this himself, and the result is a tenderly romantic, hilarious, and inspired novel."--BOOK JACKET. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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