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Lädt ... Ways to Disappear (2017. Auflage)von Idra Novey (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Short, quirky, funny, easy to read. I probably missed some point she was trying to make but I had fun reading it. ( ) 3.5 stars I enjoyed Novey's writing style and her invocation of a steamy few days in Brazil, but the characters were too vaguely sketched out. I never quite bought or believed any of the relationships between the characters or their motivations. The imagery cleverly connects with the magical realism of South American literature, but those images were better realized than the book's characters or plot. I read this novel for the second time this weekend, and found it to be even more a pleasure than the first time I read it. The novel is propelled forward by a story that has the momentum of a thriller, but even so, interstitially, almost magically within this rapid-fire plot, Novey finds a way to explore many aspects of how great fiction happens: the role an author's life plays in her fictions; the relationship between author and editor; the gap between what is on the page and what the author meant to write; the need for privacy vs. the need for publicity; and the role of translation--both the literal act of translating one language to another, and also, the way readers translate marks on the page into meanings, through the act of reading them. The novel beautifully answers the question: why read?
The protagonist, Emma Neufeld, is a Portuguese-to-English translator devoted to the work of a cult-classic Brazilian writer. Novey herself translates from Portuguese to English, most recently the work of Clarice Lispector, the cult-classic Brazilian writer. But Novey has wholly eluded the hazards of writing about writers. Instead, this lush and tightly woven novel manages to be a meditation on all forms of translation while still charging forward with the momentum of a bullet. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
When Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda suddenly disappears, her American translator Emma travels to Brazil to solve the mystery while fending off rapacious loan sharks and the washed-up editor who made Yagoda famous. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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