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Lädt ... The Volcano Lover: A Romance (Original 1992; 2004. Auflage)von Susan Sontag
Werk-InformationenDer Liebhaber des Vulkans: Roman von Susan Sontag (1992)
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Ambientada en el Nápoles del siglo XVIII y basada en las vidas de sir William Hamilton, su famosa mujer, Emma, y lord Nelson, acompañados por muchas de las grandes figuras del momento, esta novela histórica poco convencional, firmada por una de las grandes pensadoras del siglo, nos habla del sexo y la revolución, del destino natural, del arte y de la obsesión del coleccionista, pero, sobre todo, del amor. O amante do vulcão, terceiro romance de Susan Sontag, incorpora contradições no mínimo instigantes. Trata-se de uma história realista, moderna em sua polifonia de vozes narrativas. Nela se agitam personagens históricos desentranhados da fase heróica do período romântico: o final do século XVIII. Sir William Hamilton, embaixador britânico no Reino das Duas Sicílias, sua segunda mulher, Emma, humilde porém belíssima cortesã inglesa guindada à posição de confidente e conselheira de uma rainha, e o maior herói marítimo da Inglaterra, lord Nelson, são os míticos protagonistas desta narrativa histórico-ficcional. A compulsão de redesenhá-los em escala humana, imperativo tipicamente ensaístico, só fez aumentar a voltagem dramática das peripécias em que se vêem envolvidos. Sem dúvida, temos aqui uma história apaixonante sobre pessoas apaixonadas. "É um livro de mestre, um belo espetáculo: vasto, colorido, interessante, e que faz pensar."Roberto Schwarz"Um romance de idéias passional e muitas vezes radical que proporciona todos os antigos prazeres do romance histórico tradicional."New York Times Teenage servant girl goes to work for dodgy sex therapist then becomes model for fashionable painter. First Aristocratic Lover dumps her when she becomes pregnant; Second Lover is kinder, but also dumps her when the chance of a wealthy heiress comes up - he gets rid of her by shipping her off as a gift to his recently-widowed uncle, the ambassador in Naples. The uncle likes her, gives her the Eliza Doolittle treatment and marries her after a decent interval. She becomes a confidant of the Queen (Marie-Antoinette's sister!) and they are all set to live happily ever after, but then there's a Revolution in France, and a Wounded British Admiral arrives in town and has to be nursed back to health... The real Emma, Lady Hamilton, is a character that only the most brazen writer of historical romance would have dared to invent - her whole life reads like a plot-summary in Name that Book. So maybe it's not surprising that Susan Sontag chooses to write about her from a slightly oblique point of view, taking as her central character Sir William Hamilton, whom we now remember only as a famous cuckold, but who in his own time was known as an art collector, archaeologist, and avid student of the moods of Vesuvius. And who seems to have done a pretty good job representing British interests at the notoriously raffish and corrupt Neapolitan court. Sontag also messes about quite freely with the conventions of historical fiction - she keeps period authenticity to the necessary minimum and is quite happy to step into frame from time to time and explain something from the point of view of the modern New Yorker. Although the narrative mostly sticks very closely to recorded history, at one point we suddenly realise that we've drifted seamlessly into a story from another medium that we know to be fictional. And as well as inserting her own caustic comments on the actions of her characters and the presumed reactions of her readers, Sontag doesn't mind bringing dead people in as auxiliary narrators (the last word in the book, unexpectedly, goes to the poet and revolutionary journalist Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel). I won't say that this was better than I expected, because I expected a lot from Sontag anyway, but it is a book that managed to surprise me and keep my interest, despite being based on a set of events I thought I was pretty familiar with to start with. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There is a cleverness to Sontag's writing. Most of the story is told in the third person with touches of first person narrative sprinkled in. Is that Sontag offering personal tidbits about herself? Who is this off-camera speaker? In the very last section of Volcano Lover the Cavalier, his wife, his mother-in-law, and the Queen all offer first person perspectives on their lives with one another. Both the Cavalier and his mother-in-law are careful to never reveal the Cavalier's wife real name (modeled after Emma Hamilton). No one mentions the hero's name (Lord Nelson in real life), either. ( )