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Lädt ... Three War Storiesvon David Mamet
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Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas. In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th Century Secret Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist and finally memoirist recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment. The protagonist in Notes on Plain Warfare examines religion through the prism of the American Indian wars. Finally, The Handle and the Hold is a vivid, dialogue-driven tale of two ex-military men who steal a plane in the month before the Israeli War of Independence. Finely wrought, Mamet eloquently depicts the psychological brutality conflict raises in the landscape of the mind. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It is a collection of three stories, all connected to wars.
Redwing takes up more than half the book. Its conceit is that an old sailor, who no longer has need to lie or protect or seek gain, tells the truth about his life and experiences. He gets to compare it all to an autobiographical novel he published earlier, correcting and “quoting” liberally. He has had adventures – dealing with pirates, being imprisoned in a foreign land for years, and doing battle with the seas. But he never makes a connection to the reader.
The story is as flat as a pancake. It constantly drops names you don’t know that will figure in later substories, but it never builds to anything. There is no climax, no attachment to any characters, and nothing to resolve. It’s like Philippe Muray without the humor: a lot of miscellaneous philosophizing, all jammed together.
Notes on Plains Warfare is also the reminiscences of an old man, this time a Civil War solider who was then sent to kill Plains Indians. Mamet applies a lot of angles, giving him insight into Indian ceremonies, seeing things from their perspective, and combining the narrator’s experience with other knowledge gained over a lifetime. It has more real detail and depth, but the voice is totally inauthentic: “The Zoroastrians indeed could have been inspired to their noted dualism by the selfsame process of delight and absolute aversion.” This is not the incendiary Mamet you hope for.
The third story is called The Handle and The Hold. This last, shortest story, is more like the Mamet we’ve come to respect. It is entirely conversation instead of narration. It occurs among Vegas thugs, Jewish Vegas thugs, who recount World War II stories from home and abroad, as they steal an old bomber and fly it to Palestine with a load of contraband arms. There’s lots to talk about and lots of time to kill. The banter is rapid and economical. There is a climax. There is a point. It saves the book, if one out of three is sufficient. ( )