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Rivieren di Martin Michael Driessen
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Rivieren (edizione 2016)

di Martin Michael Driessen

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A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water. These three stories span countries and eras, but they are all connected by, and reliant on, the unpredictable power and languid beauty of rivers that give life as quickly as they take it away.… (altro)
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  Vercarre | Oct 15, 2023 |
Dit lijkt een bedrieglijk eenvoudig boekje, maar het is het allerminst. Martin Michael Driessen (°1954) heeft hier drie novellen opgenomen die inhoudelijk volledig los staan van elkaar: ze zijn erg verschillend in lengte, in toonaard en stijl, geografische locatie en tijdsperiode en thematieken. Hij roept dus in kort bestek uiteenlopende wereld op, in een telkens aangepaste taal, en dat is knap gedaan. Toch is er één constante: telkens speelt een rivier de hoofdrol. In het eerste verhaal waagt een verlopen toneelacteur zich aan een ‘afkick’-reis met een kano over de Aisne in Frankrijk. In het tweede wordt de vriendschap beschreven van twee jongens die verbonden zijn door hun passie voor boomstam-transporten over Duitse rivieren. En in het slotverhaal is een rivier (eigenlijk niet meer dan een beek) het voorwerp van een decennialange, bitse grondvete tussen twee Bretoense families van verschillende godsdienstige gezindte. Het is duidelijk: het stromende water staat hier voor het leven dat vervliedt, als een natuurkracht die de mens meesleurt, waardoor die amper vat heeft op zijn eigen lot. Niet alle novellen zijn even geslaagd, maar Driessen demonstreert wel op weergaloze wijze zijn taalbeheersing. ( )
  bookomaniac | Dec 2, 2019 |
Translated from Dutch, this book consists of 3 long short stories. It also won the 2016 ECI Literature Prize (which I admit I have never heard of).

These stories are so well written and so interesting. Each of the main characters is so attached to his/her river--whether it is their livelihood or vital to their idea of home, the different rivers are key. Driessen manages to capture how vital these rivers are to his characters' lives and senses of self, and how they actually love their river.

The stories:
Fleuve Sauvage: All Comes to Naught. A drunk canoes down the river in the canoe he bought for his son, who wants nothing to do with him

Voyage to The Moon: Life is a Dream. Follows the life of one of the last generation of men to raft logs down the Rodach, Main, and Rhine; and his friend Julius, who inherits his father's logging business (of different classes, they cannot truly be friends). We meet Konrad the first season he gets to stay on shore and work the logs, through the year he first gets to raft, to middle-aged Konrad seeing the end of rafting as Hitler comes to power.

Pierre and Adele: He Shall Be Purified by Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Two families share a valley, each on one side of a creek. They have been fighting over the creek's movement for at least 100 years--making multiple generations of lawyers wealthy. Pierre and Adele, and Eduard their lawyer, are the last of the generations who seem to have solved the problem. ( )
  Dreesie | Mar 2, 2019 |
Three interesting short stories, each around a river, river as leitmotif one could say. The river as overwhelming force, the river as highway to the world and the river as boundary. Each story is interesting in itself and stands alone. But as a collection, they come into their own. 2 August 2018. ( )
2 vota alanca | Aug 6, 2018 |
Drie keer een rivier, als een scheidslijn of een grens. Om te overschrijden, te volgen tot ze oplost in het niets, te verdedigen... Nooit om te respecteren. Helder proza, puur en evenwichtig en geloofwaardig zelfs op de meest apocalyptische momenten. ( )
  brver | Sep 9, 2017 |
Steeds speelt water een hoofdrol in deze bundel van grote klasse. Martin Michael Driessen is oorspronkelijk en een ongebreideld verteller. (...) Rivieren laat zien dat zijn verhalen aan zeggingskracht winnen als de dosering van alle frivoliteiten een beetje is aangepast. Zou het ermee te maken kunnen hebben dat Rivieren niet werd uitgebracht bij Driessens vaste uitgeverij, Wereldbibliotheek, maar bij Van Oorschot? Hoe het ook zij, deze bundel is oorspronkelijk en van grote klasse. De beste Driessen tot nu toe.
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Driessen, Martin Michaelautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Noordzij, ChristophProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water. These three stories span countries and eras, but they are all connected by, and reliant on, the unpredictable power and languid beauty of rivers that give life as quickly as they take it away.

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