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Indlæser... Deception (1990)af Philip Roth
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Philip Roth wrote lots of books, and he can be really uneven. He's trying out different forms, and this one frankly doesn't work for me. The whole thing is presented as direct dialogue by a writer and his lover. I thought I could work through the confusion of dialogue without context, when you can't even tell who's talking and what about at times, but frankly I didn't think the payoff was going to be worth the effort. So I gave up. This is one of my favorite writers- I totally love the Zuckerman books- but this one is no good. These days, it's not very fashionable to read Philip Roth (1933-2018), but Deception (1990) is remarkably prescient. "Can you explain to the court why you hate women?" Deception is a cleverly constructed novella about an adulterous couple and their affair. The reader has to deduce everything about them from their intense, claustrophobic encounters, and it's delivered entirely in dialogue. He's an unemployed Jewish English writer in the bedsit where the affair is conducted. It's furnished minimally, with just two chairs, a desk and his books. It's where he writes. They make love, presumably, on the floor. (Presumably, because sex is barely mentioned in this story.) He's named Philip, but I call him The Writer. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/10/31/deception-by-philip-roth/ ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes -- and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction.At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The action consists of conversation -- mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogue -- sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, "moving," as Hermione Lee writes, "on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety" -- is nearly all there is to this audiobook, and all there needs to be."A fiendishly clever piece of work . . . an amazing feat. . . . He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist." -- William Pritchard, Hudson Review No library descriptions found. |
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