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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Stonemason: A Play in Five Actsdi Cormac McCarthy
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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 was surprised to find that mccarthy had written a play, and then even more surprised to find - while tragic, of course - that there are parts that made me laugh. this is a quick, short play, but one that has a lot of layers that i will enjoy teasing out as i think on it over the next few days...and i like that he actually helps me out a bit by giving some of the information himself in the stage direction that opens the play, taking away some of the guesswork about his intention and meaning. "The arc of the moral universe is indeed long but it does bend toward justice." "Bein old dont shelter people from ignorance. Ought to, but it dont." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Stonemason is a profoundly moving drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, concerning several generations of a black family. McCarthy's narrator, Ben, reveals a painful episode in his family's history, grounding us at the same time in the beautiful dynamic between him and his grandfather, Papaw. Ben, Ben's father, and Papaw are all stonemasons, but in descriptions of "the trade" we learn as much about this family's capacity for love as we do about constructing sound foundations for houses, barns and bridges. Papaw's knowledge about stonemasonry is analogous to his deep spiritual wisdom, and Ben recognizes both as he looks back on his apprenticeship in the "trade at which I thoughtmyself a master and of which I stood in darkest ignorance. And as I came to know him ... As I came to know him ... Oh I could hardly believe my good fortune. I swore then I'dcleave to that old man like a bride. I swore he'd take nothing to his grave." Papaw's son Big Ben and great-grandson Soldier do not respond as whole-heartedly to the old man's wealth of knowledge and patient guidance and the tragedy of the story is largely rooted in this fact. Both of these characters have lost connection with the work of their hands and by association with the earth, their family, and themselves. They are profoundly dissatisfied. Of his father, Ben later wonders, "Why could he not see the worth of that which he had laid aside and the poverty of all he hungered for? Why could he not see that he too was blest?" The Stonemason reveals afresh the mastery of character, plot, pathos, and the poetic facility for language that distinguishes Cormac McCarthy's fiction, and which recently earned him the National Book Award for his bestselling novel, All The Pretty Horses. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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CMcC published two plays. I saw Sunset Limited performed in Tacoma right after we moved up here, so I veered here. We can never know, of course, but this might be close:
Act V, Scene 1
The big elm tree died. The old dog died. Things that you can touch go away forever. I dont know what that means. I dont know what it means that things exist and then exist no more. Trees. Dogs. People. Will that namelessness into which we vanish then taste of us? The world was before man and it will be again when he is gone. But it was not this world nor will it be, for where man lives is in this world only.
Ultimately there is no one to tell you if you are justified in your own house.
The people I know who are honorable never think about it. I think of little else. ( )