Barbara Lachman
Autore di The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen: A Novel
Opere di Barbara Lachman
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- Sesso
- female
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 207
- Popolarità
- #106,920
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 6
When I picked it back up, something in the reading made be go back and re-read the preface. It was then that saw on the title page was the first mention of "novel" as opposed to a true journal written BY Hildegard. I felt misled by the publisher and author because I wanted to read Hildegard's journal, not Lachman's fictional interpretation. Still tried reading on because of my interest in Hildegard.
Then when she used the word "crayon" (as Hildegard talked about drawing on a wall) I could read no more of Lachman's "journal" exercise. Lachman said she was writing from the historical point of view of the year 1152. While some form of oil pastels (through use of beeswax) may have been around for thousands of years, the word "crayon" is after Hildegard's time with all instances showing the word being added to Webster's in 1644...long past 1152.
While this seems a minor point, for me, it was just the straw that broke the camel's back and for me said that reading the rest of the book was not worth my time. I read all of her footnotes and still learned little about Hildegard that I did not already know.… (altro)