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Indlæser... A Manuscript of Ashes (1986)af Antonio Muñoz Molina
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstrÃ¥de pÃ¥ Snak om denne bog. 8432207756 Muñoz Molina's first novel, written over the course of several summer holidays whilst he was still working as a civil servant in Granada, and an immediate hit when it came out in 1986. But this isn't your typical first novel: it's set up as a kind of postmodern, post-Spanish-Civil-War counterpart of The Magic Mountain, exploring the physical and emotional damage done by the war, the seductive temptations of literature, sex, death, and heroism, and the equally strong temptation to run away from all of them. Minaya, scared by an unpleasant encounter with the police after being caught up in anti-Franco student protests in Madrid, decides to spend some time out of the way at his uncle Manuel's house in the small town of Mágina in the upper Guadalquivir valley, researching a thesis on Manuel's close friend, the forgotten Civil War poet Jacinto Solana. As Minaya slowly starts to unravel some of the mysteries of the house and its collection of assorted refugees past and present and finds a few scattered clues that seem to be leading him to Solana's missing manuscript, he also gets drawn into an affair with the enigmatic Ines, housemaid and 19th-century-French-fiction addict. And he's constantly on the verge of getting the train back to Madrid, but never quite gets beyond Mágina station. With thirty years of hindsight you might say that Muñoz Molina is perhaps indulging himself a bit too much in his descriptions and his disorientingly unflagged changes of narrator, and hasn't quite found his leaner mature style yet. But I don't think you'd have said that if you were reading this book in 1986. He draws the reader right into the claustrophobic world of Manuel's town-house and we follow him cheerfully down the same blind alleys into which he is leading Minaya. Very rewarding. La calidad de la escritura de este libro es innegable. Muñoz Molina es especialista en requiebros, en todo tipo de detalles, por mÃnimos que a uno le parezcan, y con una gran calidad en la utilización del lenguaje, entre otros. Pero.........me ha parecido un libro espeso, triste, difÃcil de entender por momentos, lento. En definitiva que no me ha enganchado, La parte final es la que mejor me ha parecido, porque tenÃa ganas de desentrañar la maraña que ha provocado el autor, saber el desenlace final y porque, lo más triste, tenÃa unas ganas tremendas de terminarlo. Por último quiero hacer una crÃtica no al autor ni al libro sino a las autoridades educativas. Se de buena tinta que en bachiller o selectividad eligen este libro para lectura y creo que por su complejidad no es el más adecuado. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poetâ??notes, photographs, journalsâ??and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Inés, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana's lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravNo library descriptions found. |
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