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Sto caricando le informazioni... Lapvona (2022)di Ottessa Moshfegh
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. My first impression of Lapvona was that it is written like a Bosch painting. My mental picture of the characters in the grubby little medieval town consisted of figures that look like owl-headed sheep beasts, deformed men with odd weapons, piglet faced humans dressed in fine clothing, strange sexual proclivities carried out by uncaring overlords, and so on. Their world is corrupt, dirty, impoverished and awful. Malnutrition runs rampant. One character has an eating disorder amid a famine caused by drought. The peasants eat dirt and drink contaminated water. She lives at the lord's house and has food, but limits herself to one leaf of cabbage to serve God. Heinous crimes are commonplace. People punish themselves through flagellation and various other means of self-abuse. If the priestly class weren't there to prop up the lordly class, the peasant class would ask more questions and be less stupid. The pampered, doltish lords rely upon fear for power, and for that they require the priest to instill fear of the afterlife. Moshfegh takes them all to the stockade and gives them a good spanking. I hope we get that GOT series set in Flea Bottom and she write the scripts. The literary equivalent of a Bosch painting: a lot of wallowing in the grotesque, giving an overall impression of a topsy turvy world where everything is corrupt and hopeless. In style, content, setting, it feels more like an allegory than a novel. https://donut-donut.dreamwidth.org/865612.html nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did so many of the village's children. Ina's gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina's home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place. Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people's desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord's family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year's end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, will prove to be very thin indeed"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Set in a fictional, medieval European fiefdom, this follows several characters at odds with God, their lord, paganism, and their various inner moral struggles. This book doesn't hold back from being as disgusting as possible - CW for gore, rape, feces, vomit, cannibalism, pedophilia, murder, etc etc. At the same time, I was completely absorbed and couldn't put it down.
I'll have to think about this one more and write up a full review. ( )