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Lädt ... Samko Tale's Cemetery Bookvon Daniela Kapitáňová
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An interesting, strange and slightly disturbing small book. The story is told with the voice and from the view of an autistic midget that can't let go of the comfort blanket of communism in post Soviet Slovakia and that slips often into fairly overt racism. He can't form adult judgements of those around him and holds on to his learnt mantras that support his self worth as he goes about his rather odd little daily routine. I don't know Slovakia nearly well enough to judge whether this is supposed to be, on some level, an allegory of how the population more generally is adapting to its recent freedoms. But it is a voice that stays with you when it is gone. (As, in a very different way, did the voice of Owen Meaney). Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Short satirical novel translated from Slovak about an autistic waste-paper collector who conforms to every authority or prejudice, regardless of the effect on those around him Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.873Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Slovak FictionKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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This is my first ever experience with Slovakian literature and it’s really an original, interesting read. Samko’s peculiar language, meticulous but very limited and full of repetition, is the driving force of this slim novel, and Kapitanova does a great job of bringing it to life. It’s the same sort of quality you can find in books like The curious incident of the dog in the night –time, Everything is illuminated and Montecore, but with a flavor all of it’s own.
Samko’s unprocessed racism and homophobia , and his constant satisfied claims that he acted just like everybody else when it came to passing judgement or spreading gossip, gives us an image of the society he lives in. He’s a total conformist, but there’s also reason to his longing back to communist times. For him, and for the bitter ex-party big shot Gunar Karol, things were really better then.
It’s very clever how Kapitanova lets Samko tell another story than he thinks he’s telling, how the reader connects the dots in his stories that he himself is missing, but how she never sells him out for a laugh. Samko Tále is not a likeable fellow, but he’s human and a product of his environment. And his strange book is both crudely funny and sad. I’ll look out for more books by this writer. ( )