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Lädt ... Beer in the Snooker Club (1964)von Waguih Ghali
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) giovannigf | Aug 24, 2023 |  Ram lives in a changing Egypt but acknowledges he still has more opportunities than the less privileged Egyptians. He embraces socialism, but still takes advantage of his entitlements, while complaining that the government is corrupt. He spends his days drinking liquor paid for by other people. Somehow he is able to come off as both idealistic and cynical. This is a short, but interesting book, set in a time of national turbulence, but doesn't feel the need to get into the deeper, more complicated questions of politics. Through Ram's adventures, the subjects are dealt with in a humorous way. I wouldn't read this for a real look into that time period, but a sort of 1950s feel that could be compared to Salinger. (  ) Olivermagnus | Jul 2, 2020 | Ram lives in a changing Egypt but acknowledges he still has more opportunities than the less privileged Egyptians. He embraces socialism, but still takes advantage of his entitlements, while complaining that the government is corrupt. He spends his days drinking liquor paid for by other people. Somehow he is able to come off as both idealistic and cynical. This is a short, but interesting book, set in a time of national turbulence, but doesn't feel the need to get into the deeper, more complicated questions of politics. Through Ram's adventures, the subjects are dealt with in a humorous way. I wouldn't read this for a real look into that time period, but a sort of 1950s feel that could be compared to Salinger. (  ) Olivermagnus | Sep 16, 2016 |  ) snash | Jun 19, 2014 |  bethanyinthetaiga | Apr 8, 2014 | Zeige 5 von 5
 . . . Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club, a 1964 novel of postcolonial Cairo and post-imperial London, that is as emotionally wise as it is politically shrewd, and also hugely enjoyable. Narrated by the aimless but acutely self-aware scion of a wealthy Cairene family, it is set in the 1950s – during the actual process of political decolonisation that exposed the corruption, ineptitude and hypocrisy of native elites as much as of their former imperial overlords. The postcolonial bourgeoisie had, while holding fast to its class privileges and caste prejudices, come to wear modern ideas – revolution, freedom, democracy, women's rights – as a "mask", the thing that hides "us from others", as Octavio Paz wrote, and "also hides us from ourselves". Beer in the Snooker Club fearlessly unmasks anti-imperialists as well as imperialists; it shows how their failures tragically compromised the political struggles and emotional lives of several generations. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenBemerkenswerte Listen
"Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram's favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to emulate English gentility; but his best friends are young intellectuals who devour the works of Sartre and engage in dangerous revolutionary activities to support Egyptian independence. By turns biting and comic, Beer in the Snooker Club--the first and only book by Waguih Ghali--became a cult classic when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a loveable rogue coming of age in turbulent times."--Page [4] of cover. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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