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Lädt ... Earthly Powers (Original 1980; 1981. Auflage)von Anthony Burgess
Werk-InformationenDer Fürst der Phantome von Anthony Burgess (1980)
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This novel is considered a forgotten masterpiece by many. Maybe it's because of my lack of erudition, but I simply found it slightly contrived and exceedingly boring. ( )
Burgess sees artistic creation as man’s only god-like act, which is appropriate in a book whose twin themes are art and evil. Toomey, of course, is the most sterile kind of artist – pretentious and pitifully transparent – and Burgess has great parodic fun with his efforts: lush period epics, doomed libretti, catchy doggerel for stage musicals, a sentimental homosexual rewrite of the creation myth, even a theological work on the nature of evil (written in collusion with his relative Carlo Campanati, a Vatican high-up who later ‘makes Pope’). As Toomey begins the act of creation, he experiences a divine confidence; as the work takes shape, he feels himself already falling short, as earthly compromise and contingency closes in on the pristine dream. What is intended as radical and pure becomes tainted and familiar. In a sense, though, Earthly Powers belongs to Toomey as well as to Burgess, It is a considerable achievement, spacious and intricate in design, wonderfully sustained in its execution, and full of a weary generosity for the errant world it recreates. As a form, the long novel is inevitably flawed and approximate; and this book contains plenty of hollow places beneath its busy verbal surface. But whatever its human limits it shows an author who has reached the height of his earthly powers. BeinhaltetHat eine Studie überHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder StudentenAuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
Umfangreiche, faszinierend detaillierte Lebensgeschichte zweier vollkommen gegensätzlicher Männer vor dem Hintergrund des 20. Jahrhunderts, 'dem schlimmsten Jahrhundert, das die Geschichte erlebt hat' - meint der Autor
Umfangreiche, faszinierend detaillierte Lebensgeschichte zweier vollkommen gegensätzlicher Männer vor dem Hintergrund des 20. Jahrhunderts, 'dem schlimmsten Jahrhundert, das die Geschichte erlebt hat' - meint der Autor. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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