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Sto caricando le informazioni... Meditations in Green (1983)di Stephen Wright
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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 had read a bunch of reviews saying that this novel was the novel on Vietnam. It was supposed to be better than any of Tim O'Brien's pieces. This isn't a bad novel, but O'brien's works -- particularly Going After Cacciato -- have much more depth. This has the absurdity of Catch-22 and the horror of Apocalypse Now. But from a literary standpoint, it isn't as powerful in language and imagery. Not a bad book, but didn't live up to the hype I had heard. ( ) 2011, Jan.: #1 The last celebration of my 'mois de viet nam' from December, and alongside Eastlake's criminally underappreciated Bamboo Bed and Herr's Dispatches, the better of that month-plus-long immersion in the product of America's involvement with some Seriously Deep Shit. Like Herr, Wright tends to focus more on the EXPERIENCE of the war, the feelings felt in the moments of boredom and the moments of chaos--and speaking of that chaos, the rare explosions of war are the most powerful I've ever read, bar none. Absolutely horrific, tense, disgusting, beautiful, never-ending yet over too fucking soon (& o, what a note it goes out on!). Now...the only issue with 50 days spent in Vietnam is all the experiences tend to blend together. And what doesn't help is that Meditations in Green is possibly the most difficult of them; the newest, borrowing elements and yet being entirely original, the worst choice to end with. Wright is obviously a master of the craft. He really asks you to re-read and read again. There's no other way to understand him. (I still have no clue what the 'meditations' were all about. I am clueless. If/When I have the chance to re-read this, I'll be forced to re-review it, to really, like, know it.) If you have any interest whatsoever in the Vietnam War, and especially the fiction that sprang from it, this--and don't forget Eastlake's Heller-esque-but-not-really Bamboo Bed--is required reading. 80% [148] nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Sardonic, searing, seductive, and surreal, the award-winning Meditations in Green is regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a kaleidoscopic collage that whirls about an indelible array of images and characters: perverted Winkly, who opted for the army to stay off of welfare; eccentric Payne, who's obsessed with the film he's making of the war; and bucolic Claypool, who's irrevocably doomed to a fate worse than death, just to name a few. Floating at the center of this psychedelic spin is Specialist 4 James Griffin. In country, Griffin studies the jungle of carpet-bomb photos as he fights desperately to keep his grip on reality. Battling addiction stateside after his tour, he studies the green of household plants as he struggles mightily to regain his sanity. With mesmerizing action and Joycean interior monologues, Stephen Wright has created a book that is as much an homage to the darkness of war as it is a testament to the transcendence of art. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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