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Sørgmunter historie om den dominikanske Oscar, som bor hos sin store familie, altid er forelsket, er katastrofalt overvægtig og har ambitioner om at blive den nye Tolkien.
weener: Oscar Wao mentions In the Time of the Butterflies in a footnote. Both dealing so gracefully with the Trujillo regime, they seem like complementary books.
weener: One is fiction, one is non-fiction. One is in Latin America, one is in Asia. Both are heartbreaking, deeply affecting tales of life under totalitarianism.
Fremragende roman med den amerikansk/dominikanske Oscar og hans familiemedlemmers historier i New Jersey men især i Den dominikanske Republik. Oscar lever en slags 'erstatningsliv' uden egentlige venner i sci-fi, rollespil samt i håbløse og vildt overdrevne forelskelser, da han slet ikke kan leve op til det latinamerikanske machoideal. Ud over portrætterne af Oscar og familien tegnes et billede af Den dominikanske Republiks hel- og halvdiktaturer i anden halvdel af 1900-tallet. Vanvittigt godt fortalt (og oversat) historie i et en den grad saftig blanding af dansk/spansk (med 6 siders ordliste, så du kan lære midst 10 synonymer på spansk for bl.a. pik, kusse, røv og luder). Komisk og tragisk mesterværk, som helt fortjent vandt Pulitzerprisen i 2008. ( )
Díaz’s novel also has a wild, capacious spirit, making it feel much larger than it is. Within its relatively compact span, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” contains an unruly multitude of styles and genres. The tale of Oscar’s coming-of-age is in some ways the book’s thinnest layer, a young-adult melodrama draped over a multigenerational immigrant family chronicle that dabbles in tropical magic realism, punk-rock feminism, hip-hop machismo, post-postmodern pyrotechnics and enough polymorphous multiculturalism to fill up an Introduction to Cultural Studies syllabus.
It is Mr. Díaz’s achievement in this galvanic novel that he’s fashioned both a big picture window that opens out on the sorrows of Dominican history, and a small, intimate window that reveals one family’s life and loves. In doing so, he’s written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible new voices.
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Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?? (Fantastic Four, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Vol. 1, No. 49, April 1966)
Christ have mercy on all sleeping things! From that dog rotting down Wrightson Road to when I was a dog on these streets; if loving these islands must be my load, out of corruption my soul takes wings, But they had started to poison my soul with their big house, big car, bit-time hbohl, coolie, nigger, Syrian, and French Creole, so I leave it for them and their carnival-- I taking a sea-bath, I gone down the road. I know these islands from Monos to Nassau, a rusty head sailor with sea-green eyes that they nickname Shabine, the patois for any red nigger, and I, Shabine, saw when these slums of empire was paradise. I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound colonial education, I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me, and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation. (Derek Walcott)
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Elizabeth de Leon
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They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.
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You wanna smoke? I might partake. Just a little though. I would not want to cloud my faculties.
“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú–generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. Also called the fukú of the Admiral because the Admiral was both its midwife and one of its great European victims; despite “discovering” the New World the Admiral died miserable and syphilitic, hearing (dique) divine voices. In Santo Domingo, the Land He Loved Best (what Oscar, at the end, would call the Ground Zero of the New World), the Admiral’s very name has become synonymous with both kinds of fukú, little and large; to say his name aloud or even to hear it is to invite calamity on the heads of you and yours.”
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So this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!
Sørgmunter historie om den dominikanske Oscar, som bor hos sin store familie, altid er forelsket, er katastrofalt overvægtig og har ambitioner om at blive den nye Tolkien.
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Sørgmunter historie om den dominikanske Oscar, som bor hos sin store familie, altid er forelsket, er katastrofalt overvægtig og har ambitioner om at blive den nye Tolkien
Vanvittigt godt fortalt (og oversat) historie i et en den grad saftig blanding af dansk/spansk (med 6 siders ordliste, så du kan lære midst 10 synonymer på spansk for bl.a. pik, kusse, røv og luder). Komisk og tragisk mesterværk, som helt fortjent vandt Pulitzerprisen i 2008. (