Sono rilasciati con una licenza Common Reader. Con lo sguardo di una giovane che sogna nel buio mentre il lume. Hai uno sguardo indomito tu, piccola creatura. ![]() Bontempi keyboard pm 747 driver download fasters tartu. “Elusive, haunting.”— New York Times Book Review A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and “Elusive, haunting.”— New York Times Book Review A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs. “[A] profound study of personal and political trauma.” — Daily Telegraph 'Has the symmetry of an elegantly cut gem.” — The New Yorker. The official back-of-the-book description for A.B. Yehoshua's 'The Lover' describes it as 'dreamlike', about as generic an adjective as you can give a novel. Don't all stories have something to do with dreams, even just metaphysically? Isn't that (ideally) what happens when we read -- a transportation to the collective unconscious? Anyway, strictly speaking, it's not a bad description -- in fact, it's incredibly *apt* -- but it doesn't really prepare you for what's going on here. What we mean whe The official back-of-the-book description for A.B. Yehoshua's 'The Lover' describes it as 'dreamlike', about as generic an adjective as you can give a novel. Don't all stories have something to do with dreams, even just metaphysically? Isn't that (ideally) what happens when we read -- a transportation to the collective unconscious? Anyway, strictly speaking, it's not a bad description -- in fact, it's incredibly *apt* -- but it doesn't really prepare you for what's going on here. What we mean when we say 'dreamlike' is usually a certain kind of flowing narrative & logic, and an impressionistic style of storytelling. 'The Lover' is an incredible, incredible book; 'dreamlike' both in the flowing narrative & in the novel's structure, which is continually switching perspectives between a handful of characters. It is dreamlike in a very literal way: For most of the book, all of the sections from the mother's point of view are actually only told through her dreams (which is not even immediately apparent), and most of the grandmother's early sections are told from within her coma, where her narrative is appropriately synesthetic, but with the feeling of bobbing just underneath the surface of waking consciousness. The daughter (my personal favorite character, but then, I'm a sucker for wild teenaged hooliganism & the truths it reveals) wanders around her home & school like a ghost, acting on whims, while the father -- the driving force of the book -- seems perhaps most like a character from a dream, wandering in pursuit of his task (searching to reunite his wife with her lover) with a truly hypnotic, but oddly sleepy, single-mindedness. Even the character Na'im, maybe the most practical voice in the narration, feels always like he's struggling against the edges of something large and unconscious; he is possibly the most aware that he's caught in a kind of waking dream. So *dreamlike* here is not just an adjective but an honest to goodness motif. Built into this is a meditation on nationalism -- about as pertinent a question as any Israeli literature could possibly ask, right? -- but also on love, family, and religion. The book is so achingly beautiful (another overused phrase, I suppose, but an excruciatingly apt one as well) that you scarcely notice the seriousness of the themes he's calling into question. The book is a very heavy one, don't get me wrong -- but what I think is impressive is that it asks some very crucial questions about statehood and culture and family without ever having to directly phrase them. The structure of using multiple perspectives to tell a story isn't new or anything, but there's something odd & unique about the way it's executed here. Yehoshua very often gives us the same story events multiple times -- sometimes even three times in a row -- from different perspectives, so we get three versions of those same events. Dynapack viewer software windows 7.
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