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Lädt ... Boven is het stil (Original 2006; 2006. Auflage)von Gerbrand Bakker
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Fantastic beautiful book ( ) Af en toe doet een mens nog eens een ontdekking. Deze Bakker stond al een tijdje op mijn te-lezen-lijst, eerder als curiosum, want ik had van deze Nederlands schrijver nog nooit gehoord. Nou moe, dat was dan toch echt wel een gat in mijn literaire cultuur. Wat kan die man schrijven: zo zuinig-efficiënt, zo ingehouden en toch beeldrijk! Niet dat dit nu een boek is waar je vrolijk van wordt, integendeel, etiketten als naargeestig en schrijnend zijn hier van toepassing. Bij het begin van het verhaal brengt verteller Helmer, een oude boer, zijn stokoude vader onder in de bovenkamer, waar hij de laatste maanden van zijn leven vanop zijn bed door het raam kijkend nog een laatste keer een voorjaar kan meemaken. Wat volgt, is een combinatie van kommer en kwel én humor, maar wel in een heel originele vorm gebracht, via de introductie van een overjaarse puber, en relatief bedekte homo-erotische toespelingen. Ik vind deze roman een knappe variante op ‘Hollands Drama’ van Arthur Van Schendel (1874-1946), een echte polderroman, annex familiedrama, waarin de protagonisten nauwelijks spreken, de zwaarbewolkte luchten het al vlakke landschap nog verder naar beneden drukken en water alomtegenwoordig is. Benieuwd wat Gerbrand Bakker nog meer in zijn mars heeft. Helmer es un granjero que, con cincuenta y cinco años y una vida marcada por la soledad, está a punto de tomar las riendas de su vida. Gerbrand Bakker nos envuelve en los pensamientos de un protagonista que trata de entender su propio aislamiento a través de un lenguaje directo que nos divierte, emociona y nos lleva a preguntarnos el porqué de nuestras propias decisiones. Gray, Cold, Bleak, Stoic, Sad. This describes the setting (Dutch Waterland) and the main characters and narrator. After the death of his identical twin, Helmer steps up to help his Father run the sheep and cow farm. He is miserable and still at it 35 years later as is father lays dying. Slowly his hopes and dreams start to reemerge as the novel cycles through a year on the bleak, flat, watery farm. The writing style, which while well suited to the story and very atmospheric, moved a little too slowly. I didn't enjoy reading this book. How could anyone? But I'm glad I read it. It would be a fascinating novel to study in a class-- so much symbolism, subtle hints at "unspeakable" themes. I was left pondering it.
This is a novel of great brilliance and subtlety. It contains scenes of enveloping psychological force but is open-ended, its extraordinary last section suggesting that fulfilment of long-standing aspirations can arrive, unanticipated, in late middle-age. Human dramas are offset by landscape and animals feelingly delineated, and David Colmer's translation is distinguished by an exceptional (and crucial) ear for dialogue. There are certain stories that both ask for and reward rereading, and not according to the Great Work of Art notion that demanding, ambitious works like Ulysses and Hamlet sustain multiple engagements over a lifetime. I mean instead that more modest, deceptively simple works tend to reveal their many smaller gems of wisdom and beauty on second, third and even 20th readings. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead – her luminous novel about an old Kansas preacher’s relationship to his young son and to the changing world around them – and Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River – a pitch-perfect short story about a damaged young man’s effort at a restorative fishing trip in northern Michigan – come to mind. Gerbrand Bakker’s debut novel, The Twin, while not as accomplished as either of these works, has a similar feel to it. The winner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is unapologetically slow-paced, patient in its revelations, almost ritualistic in its descriptions of quotidian things, melancholic and meditative in its narrative voice and capable, at its best moments, of bringing off remarkably moving and tense passages concerning a middle-aged Dutchman’s fraught relationship to his aged father, a relationship permanently and tragically forged in fracture by the accidental death of the Dutchman’s twin brother – the always preferred son – when they were teenagers. But these men are so silent in the assessment of their own lives, and this is such a sad and bleak story, that no matter how delicate the touch and how subtle the undercurrents, it makes for a sad, bleak read. AuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother’s role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer’s twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin ultimately poses difficult questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into one’s own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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