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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il laureato (originale 1937; edizione 2002)di R. K. Narayan, Tatiana Moroni
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Narayan uses a light touch to give the reader little notes of humor and sentimentality in this coming-of-age story set in India in 1931. We follow a young man as he goes through his final year of college, falling in love, and getting a job, with setbacks along the way. How his family talk to one another is amusing (the mother especially), as is the folly of the grand plans of youth, and the various little witticisms we hear from the characters, e.g. “the saying is that Madras is hot for ten months in the year and hotter for two” and “a man must spend forty years in making money and forty years in spending it.” I liked the little touch of a radical character who is against the presence of the British in India, and it was very interesting to read about the customs and rituals involved with getting married, including the casting of horoscopes and just how young a girl would be to be considered eligible – just after puberty, or around 14, and if not married by 16, viewed with some disdain. It thus gives us a wonderful little window into India, which is one of the things Graham Greene so liked about Narayan, but it’s also a universal story. I’ll have to seek out more from this author. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."—Graham Greene Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life in the fictional town of Malgudi. The Dark Room is a searching look at a difficult marriage and a woman who eventually rebels against the demands of being a good and obedient wife. In Mr. Sampath, a newspaper man tries to keep his paper afloat in the face of social and economic changes sweeping India. Narayan writes of youth and young adulthood in the semiautobiographical Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts. Although the ordinary tensions of maturing are heightened by the particular circumstances of pre-partition India, Narayan provides a universal vision of childhood, early love and grief. "The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness—like one's own reflection seen in a green twilight."—Margaret Parton, New York Herald Tribune Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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If you read it just as a story, there isn't much happening. Chandran is a regular guy with regular thoughts and regular problems. But I think this regularity is probably essence of the novel. What Chandran thinks, his problems and his ways of dealing with them are very similar to how people actually behave in life. Chandran is each one of us. And that is probably what is humorous about the novel.
I have yet to discuss this in my English class. Let's see what my teacher has to say. ( )