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The History of Love: A Novel af Nicole…
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The History of Love: A Novel (original 2005; udgave 2005)

af Nicole Krauss

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For mange år siden hjemme i Polen skrev den nu 80-årige polsk-amerikanske immigrant Leo Gursky en kærlighedsroman tilegnet hans elskede. Af uransagelige veje dukker manuskriptet op i USA, og forandrer fuldstændig livet for den stilfærdige og ensomme mand og for den unge pige, som er opkaldt efter romanens hovedperson.… (mere)
Medlem:harrisj
Titel:The History of Love: A Novel
Forfattere:Nicole Krauss
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (2005), Hardcover
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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Nøgleord:brooklyn writer, contemporary fiction, novels

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Kærlighedens historie af Nicole Krauss (2005)

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This is one of the greatest, most impactful, passionate, and vibrant books I have EVER read. “The History of Love” left me feeling ripped open and reassured all at once and I don’t know how to fully process my thoughts. I will be rereading and rereading and rereading this book for the rest of my life. ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
memory says I read this when Lori first lived in Oakland - but book description does not match memory
was certain Krauss was the author and the book cover does match memory
hmmmm ( )
  Overgaard | Feb 1, 2024 |
I didn't love this book and I'm always a bit upset when I don't care for a book that most everyone else loves. It makes me feel the need to apologize. (Sorry Liz!) On a positive note, I really liked the character of Leo Gursky but his life was unbearably sad. I can't get the thought out of my head that he was "disappearing" from lack of love. I think that must be one of the saddest things I've ever read. The author really does give you a lot to think about though, which should have made me love the story, so I guess I'm just in the market for happier reading these days. A great quote from the book ... "There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late." Too bad unfathomable things always seem to be horrific. Wouldn't it be great to apply the quote to something good; then when it becomes too late and we have no choice, something happy and good would be forced upon us. ( )
  ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |
_History of Love_ is the First Nicole Krauss book I have read, though I am looking to my left to see _Man Walks into a Room_ staring at me from underneath my book of Russian short stories I am currently indulging in.
_History_ charmed me, but it also bored and confused me. I understood what I was getting into when I picked it up: a non-linear timeline, an unusual plot, charts and graphs and possibly unusual typography. Those are, in fact, reasons I picked up this book. I enjoy all those elements when they are necessary to telling the story, and it allows more options to understand the author's intent, and to connect to my own life: also non-linear, etc.

Frequently I found myself wishing for an editor with a stronger pen to cut out- not chaff, exactly- but elements that left the reader lingering too long without impetus to read more. I got that "drifting-at-the-horse-latitudes" feeling too often from about halfway to two-thirds through the book.

The story Krauss tells is one of searching, without necessarily knowing who or what you're searching for, though you think you do. It is also a story of what we do to survive emotionally, psychologically in a world in which all do not survive. And it is a "Rosebud"-esque mystery, as we wander through the characters' lives, figuring out how the book within the book has shaped their lives.

In the 24-7 honor-system library at the small Vermont college I attended, a giant portrait hung inauspiciously across from the 700's. At the bottom was written [paraphrased]: There is no measuring the impact of the right book on the right mind at the right time. (I would look around me at all the marvelous books around me and wonder which one was *my* book.)

_History of Love_ is, in a way, a slightly Borges-like exploration of that statement: how a book, like a person or an event, can alter the course of your life and connect you to all the others who have also been altered by it. ( )
  deliriumshelves | Jan 14, 2024 |
I first read this in 2006 and loved it so much. I just listened to the audiobook and I still think it's so good! I didn't remember all of the details so it still felt a little mysterious to me how everything was connected and how it would all work out. I completely forgot that Bruno actually died in Poland in 1941 and Leo only imagined him. Sob.

This is a love story where the end product is a book instead of a relationship. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
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I en nedslitt leilighet i New York prøver Leo Gursky å overleve litt til. Hver kveld banker han på radiatoren for at naboen over skal høre at han fortsatt lever.Men livet hans har ikke alltid vært slik. For seksti år siden bodde han hjemme i Polen, der han forelsket seg og skrev en bok. Kjæresten mistet han da hun flyktet til Amerika rett før krigen. Boken ble også borte. Men uten at han selv er klar over det, har den overlevd: Den har krysset hav, blitt overlevert mellom generasjoner, og forandret liv. Fjorten år gamle Alma er oppkalt etter en person i denne boken. Etter at faren hennes døde, er hun fullt opptatt med å finne en ny kjæreste til moren, holde styr på en lillebror som tror han er Messias, og ta utførlige notater i et hefte hun kaller Hvordan overleve i villmarken, Bind tre. En dag dukker det opp et mystisk brev i posten, og Alma begir seg ut på jakt etter sin navnesøster.Personene i Kjærlighetens historie er mennesker man blir glad i. Hver for seg sysler de med gåter som på bemerkelsesverdig vis er forbundet med hverandre. Nicole Krauss har skrevet en medrivende og imponerende sammensatt roman om mennesker som har blitt avkuttet fra sin fortid, og som på hver sin pussige, rørende måte forsøker å få livet til å henge sammen.
 

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When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit.
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It’s also true that sometimes people felt things and because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned.  The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved, but to describe it and just to name it – must have been like trying to catch something invisible.
Maybe this is how I'll go, in a fit of laughter, what could be better, laughing and crying, laughing and singing, laughing so as to forget that I am alone, that it is the end of my life, that death is waiting outside the door for me.
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in my face.
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For mange år siden hjemme i Polen skrev den nu 80-årige polsk-amerikanske immigrant Leo Gursky en kærlighedsroman tilegnet hans elskede. Af uransagelige veje dukker manuskriptet op i USA, og forandrer fuldstændig livet for den stilfærdige og ensomme mand og for den unge pige, som er opkaldt efter romanens hovedperson.

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En familiehistorie om den gamle jøde Leo Gursky og den unge Alma, som ikke kender hinanden, men bindes sammen af bo-gen Kærlighedens historie, som Leo skrev for mange år siden i Polen før 2. verdenskrig, men som nu er dukket op igen og sætter begivenheder igang, som forbinder vidt forskellige mennesker
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