Dorothea Dieckmann
Autore di Guantanamo
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1957-12-18
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Rome, Italy
Hamburg, Germany
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 48
- Popolarità
- #325,720
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 2
thinking of the infamous prison in abstract terms.
Guantanamo: A Novel is an unforgiving read. Dieckmann, a German novelist and critic, takes as her protagonist a young tourist named Rashid and drops him without exposition into a nightmarish series of torture and beatings. The effect, in the hands of her calm, precise, lyrical prose, is disorienting and scouringly brutal. Only through a series of hallucinatory flashbacks does the reader learn how cruelly arbitrary Rashid’s fate is.
Judging Dieckmann’s novel, which is well-served by Tim Mohr’s extraordinarily nuanced translation, is a question of literary prejudice. The book is beautifully written and clearly serves a moral purpose; at the same time, reading it is a grim and joyless experience. Ironically, perhaps only a European could provide such an enervating account of the fallout of America’s national obsession.
From THE L MAGAZINE, August 15 2007… (altro)