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Indlæser... Travesty (1976)af John Hawkes
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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. Compared to Camus' The Fall but also bringing to mind Nabokov, I only recently discovered Hawkes through New Directions. For style alone it makes this one of the best reads in a while. The plot isn't of great consequence but I think it'll take a second read to try to understand the motivation of the suicidal/homicidal narrator. It didn't bother me he wasn't sympathetic- I'm quite at home with detestable narrators. ( ) Un hombre sin nombre conduce a gran velocidad un elegante coche por las carreteras del sur de Francia. Le acompañan su mejor amigo y su hija. No se trata de un viaje de placer. Y su mejor amigo resulta no ser en realidad su mejor amigo. Se dirigen hacia un destino fatal, planificado con meticulosidad psicótica por el conductor. A lo largo del trayecto, éste exhibe su habilidad al volante y dedica a los aterrorizados acompañantes un monólogo donde expone su personal visión de la existencia. Para el conductor, la misión en que se hallan embarcados, que finalizará con la muerte de los tres, es la máxima expresión del arte poético. Con esta novela, publicada en 1976, John Hawkes cerró la denominada «Trilogía del sexo». Para su conclusión no sólo reservó todo un despliegue de humor negro, neurosis, sexualidad y violencia, sino que, a través de las opiniones del conductor, nos hizo partícipes de sus ideas acerca de cómo debe ser la literatura y de la relación de ésta con la vida. What is the meaning of travesty? A travesty is literary or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model. John Hawkes' novella is a poetic travesty. The driver of a luxury sports car, an upper class intellectual, has decided to commit the ultimate poetic act. Is it because his wife is his poet best friend's mistress? Is it because his daughter is mistress to the same poet? You will have to join the threesome on this ride to death to determine the meaning of the driver's choice for yourself. I could feel the wind in my hair on this ride through a rainy night in southern France. Do you dare? I was compelled to read this despite the fact that I felt uninterested. Hawkes will do that to you---make it impossible for you to stop. You have to know....what is the cause of the dread that he he brings to life with his words. Maybe only if you are a voyeur of doom? In any case, the story, told entirely as a monologue, is okay. The writing is brilliant. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Travesty is John Hawkes's most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the "privileged man" justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. "What I have in mind is an 'accident' so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived." Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, Travesty is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature. No library descriptions found. |
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