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Sto caricando le informazioni... Couples, Passersby (1981)di Botho Strauß
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This could be a good read if you want to discuss ideas of couples, art, isolation, alienation. I can't really view this as a novel. To me, this book read like little essays. The jacket cover calls it vignettes. I still think it is just essays and not a novel. There really is no identifiable characters and there is no plot. The six sections are supposedly linked but even that is hard to see. I think that the author makes some great statements and there are likely many great quotes if you are looking for those but over all, this short book was a drag. "Paren, passanten", in het teken van het onverwerkte menselijke surplus dat zijn uitweg niet vindt in dialoog, kroniek van het menselijke tekort, het manco dat nergens neergeschreven werd; de gespannen banaliteit van het onzegbare momentum..... Met dit boek biedt Botho Strauss ons een doorleefd cultuurfilosofisch tractaat dat uit de rib geschreven is en verlevendigd met allerhande aanschouwelijke situaties. Strauss expliciteert de bijna obscene weerglans die over verwachtende sociale contacten tussen banale actoren ligt, hoe die contacten langs elkaar heenschuren zonder iets teweeg te brengen. Allerhande biotopen uit het anonieme grootstadse leven worden bezocht. Het is evenwel niet als een postmoderne stuurloze schrijver dat Strauss zich uitdrukt, er schuilt dynamiek, logica en richting in zijn schrijfsels, en, hoewel wrang en existentialistisch, er is een overkoepelende etische dimensie te ontwaren in zijn denken. De soevereine verteller duidt de situatie, de sfeer is Camusiaans, de niches van de zelfbegoocheling zijn het enige soelaas voor het onbarmhartige licht dat Botho Strauss op onze existentie laat schijnen, alle eventualiteiten tot in hun uiterste consequentie doorgedacht. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The six linked sections of Couples, Passersby present vignettes of frustrated connections and emotional numbness as characters search for meaning in art, in language, and in each other. A man waiting for his beloved to cross the street watches as she's struck by a car. A colorless suburban couple makes the long journey from their home to sit in a gay bar and feel exotic. A man leaves an animated intellectual lunch and goes unrecognized by his companion a few minutes later. Throughout, Strauss filters the particulars of everyday existence through his singular sensibility to creating a portrait of contemporary urban society and the artist's place within it. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There isn't a story here -- just a series of vignettes and observations by the author, possibly about loneliness or the inability to connect with people. The one I remember the most is the supposition that women are too busy raising children to have any capacity for self-reflection, so that's left to the men folk. Ridiculous... after that I really started skimming.
This book was truly awful. ( )