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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (originale 1964; edizione 2009)di Bohumil Hrabal (Autore)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() I'm always fascinated by experiments that just don't work, and here's one: yes, this novella is one unfinished sentence, supposedly. But Hrabal is too good a writer not to compose units of meeting within that sentence, so really it's a bunch of sentences with commas instead of full stops. That's not much of a criticism, because it's very well written (and/or very well translated). Otherwise, there's not much to say. It's short, it's heartbreaking, it's hilarious, and, as other reviewers have noted, your enjoyment is entirely reliant on how engaging or interesting your find the monologist. I found him very interesting: so many of his little stories end in death, he's plainly a fool, but he's also very funny. Given the option of reading the last chapter of Ulysses, which apparently inspired this rant, and reading this book again, I'll take this every time. Special bonus points for Adam Thirlwell's excellent introduction. Mother of God, isn't life breathtakingly beautiful. Joel bought me this book several years ago. It appeared so disjointed that I never truly considered it. Today the world was revealed as damp and overcast; reconciling myself to those conditions, Manchester United lost to City 6-1 and I slumped, to be polite. Reaching out, I heartily stumbled upstairs to scan our shelves and returned with Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, coincidentally just as my wife was browsing reviews of such on this wicked site. That was wonky weird. I read the book in a pair of sittings and while it isn't explosive, it is a meandering monologue for the ages. It reminds me of Moscow To The End of the Line, but Hrabal's novella is better. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life--or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like "in the days of the monarchy" and how they've changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance. Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague's pubs and football stadiums, developed a unique method which he termed "palavering," whereby characters gab and soliloquize with abandon. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why he has earned the admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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