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Lädt ... Durchsichtige Dinge (1972)von Vladimir Nabokov
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Almost done with my long march through Nabokov: 17 novels down, 1 to go. This one is Nabokov in miniature, and a bit diminished. It’s got all the perhaps too well-worn by this point Nabokov markers: anti-Freudianism, play with concepts of time and death, a discomfiting obsession with “nymphettes”. If you guess butterflies make an appearance, of course they do. All done in about 100 pages of solidly enough constructed story. Not bad but probably mostly for Nabokov completists. Of which I can just about count myself. ( ) The extremely simple story of Hugh Person and his lover Armande is told with this wonderful, delicious examination of little snippets of life. From the 'ask me what I can do' ambitions of a humdrum life to the description of Swiss hot chocolate to its description of second-rate Swiss hotels- there is a savoring in the ordinary that shines through these pages. I read chapter-1 multiple times to make peace with 'transparent things', but it will still need more re-reads. After note: some of Nabokov's descriptions of human digestion are the most 'beautiful' yet biologically accurate I've read in literature. 61. Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov published: 1972 format: 104-page paperback acquired: September read: Dec 7-11 time reading: 4:56, 2.8 mpp rating: 4 locations: a small villa in Switzerland and somewhere in US (which either isn’t specified or I missed it. Presumably eastern us) about the author: 1899 – 1977. Russia born, educated at Trinity College in Cambridge, 1922. Lived in Berlin (1922-1937), Paris, the US (1941-1961) and Montreux, Switzerland (1961-1977). This was actually a little anticlimactic after Vera, which left quite an impact. But this is a good novella, a writer's novel that still manages to reach the reader and left me with a lot to think about. We're in Switzerland and reading about clueless Americans in Switzerland. And maybe this is about clueless readers in general. VN tells us on page one: “Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment.” So, feeling all novice-like and insulted I stumbled through another 25 pages having no idea what was going on. And every couple of pages a new chapter starts and new mindset. (I had put the book down twice in those first 25 pages, and both times could not recall anything I had read and had to go back and read it again.) But there Hugh Person‘s story, his love of the unlovable Armande, begins to come out clearly. Nabokov create's an alter-ego of himself, an old cranky American author identified as Mr. R, who lives in Switzerland. Person, who works for a publisher, travels meet him a couple times. Actually the book is four trips Person takes to Switzerland, and most of the actual moment of the text happen in Switzerland. Nabokov was a very serious writer who was never really serious, and this aspect comes out here. It's sad, tragically sad, and yet playful, and also uncomfortably thought-provoking. Not sure who I would recommend this to (although those curious about Switzerland come to mind), but I think if you get through those first 25 pages, it rewards. 2021 https://www.librarything.com/topic/333774#7678428
A work may be modern and realistic and have the qualities that make it a perfectly crafted object. Nabokov never wrote a sentence that wasn't polished and gleaming, but his short Transparent Things qualifies for my imaginary collection of Faberge eggs. It is about transparency and the glitter of things -- pencils, windows -- transfigured in its own glassy medium. Auszeichnungen
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .nbsp;nbsp;As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, afternbsp;nbsp;multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."nbsp;nbsp;--Martin Amis Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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