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Lädt ... Sechs Aufgaben für Don Isidro Parodi (1942)von Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, H. Bustos Domecq
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. In which the genius of innovative fiction and his great friend amuse themselves through the medium of surreal detective fiction... It wouldn't be everyone's idea of a good read, but then, it's not the sort of book you'd pick up by chance. More than anything, the exercise puts me in mind of the Mortmere stories devised some years before by Christopher Isherwood and his long-term friend Edward Upward. In both cases, you can see the friends sniggering up their sleeves as they create their larger-than-life characters and farcical scenarios, relishing the opportunity to relax away from weightier projects. It's not 'Ficciones' but it's genuinely funny and engaging, saving the best of its problems for the final story. ( ) Isidro Parodi, le détective chargé de résoudre les six énigmes policières qui lui sont proposées, est lui-même en prison depuis plusieurs années. Cette solitude, cette absence au monde, renforcent en lui une clairvoyance, une sagesse retorse, une concentration qui lui permettent de débrouiller les fils enchevêtrés des affaires les plus impénétrables. Six visiteurs viennent ainsi l'un après l'autre lui exposer le mystère qui les tracasse, et, chaque fois, Parodi formulera un éblouissant diagnostic. Bonne occasion pour Borges et Bioy Casares de faire défiler devant nous une incroyable galerie de personnages prélevés dans tous les milieux argentins. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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he first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and his long-time friend Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi appeared originally under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq. "Bugsy's" prose style is not quite the style of either of the collaborators, but in this volume, at least, "he never got out of hand," as Borges complained he did later. In the first story, Parodi, who is himself in jail for homicide, is visited by a young man who seeks his help in solving a particularly baffling murder. In the second story, a killing takes place aboard an express train. One of the characters is a writer named Gervasio Montenegro, whom the discerning reader will identify as author of the book's expressive foreword. In "Tadeo Limardo's Victim," a murdered man prepares for his own death. "Tai An's Long Search" is a variation on Poe's "The Purloined Letter." In "Free Will and the Commendatore," a cuckold takes elaborate and invisible revenge. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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