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Sto caricando le informazioni... Futilita (1922)di William Gerhardie
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William Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg where he was raised and falls in love with the daughter of a highly eccentric and dysfunctional family - a relationship which is played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching outside the parlour window. Part British romantic comedy, part Russian social realism, with Gerhardie's trademark large cast of wonderfully realised and highly memorable characters, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope in the face of what should be insurmountably difficult circumstances. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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". . . this gathering of souls dissatisfied with life, yet always waiting patiently for betterment: enduring this unsatisfactory present because they believed that this present was not really life at all: that life was somewhere in the future: that this was but a temporary and transitory stage to be spent in patient waiting. And so they waited, year in, year out, looking out for life: while life, unnoticed, had noiselessly piled up the years that they had cast away promiscuously in waiting, and stood behind them--while they still waited." There is homage to Chekhov and to Goncharov here, but something more, an attempt to capture what is alien to westerners, a fatalism and a faith both, a blindness that is both innocence and cynicism. The family move west as the country goes to pieces, the father wants to be closer to his mines and they end up in Vladisvostock. Andrei returns in the employ of the British Navy, working as a translator for an Admiral. He woos Nina, she spurns him, then draws him. Does he love her? Or an idea o of her? As the different governments and revolutions succeed one another, the family remains together, waiting, seemingly untouched by events while people around them die. It's a short book, but took me a long time to read, quite extraordinary, I think, but also so quiet and uneventful you hardly realize how much is happening, how the world around these people is changing even while they are not. Reprinted as an 'unknown classic'--it is indeed that. **** 1/2 ( )