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Sto caricando le informazioni... Staying on : a novel (originale 1977; edizione 1977)di Paul Scott
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Tusker y Lucy Smalley decidieron permanecer en la India. Ante la opción de volver a "casa" tras el retiro de Tusker, antiguo coronel del ejército británico, optaron por quedarse en la pequeña ciudad de Pankot, con sus habitantes excéntricos y costumbres arcaicas, resquicio de los gloriosos días del imperio. Sólo la tiranía de la casera, la capitalista Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, amenaza con acabar con la placidez que se respira en la casa de los Smalley. Los rezagados es un retrato único y absorbente del final del imperio y del ocaso de un idilio de más de 40 años. Staying On is Paul Scott’s follow-up to the Raj Quartet. Tusker and Lucy Smalley have elected to stay behind after the British Raj is disassembled and Scott picks up their story in 1972, when they are living in the lodge of the Smith hotel, without any other British citizens around them. They have a loyal servant, Ibrahim, who treats them much as they were treated when they were members of the Raj, and is probably the main reason they can still navigate life in India. I would say this is a study of a marriage as much as anything else. As they look back on their lives and the choices they have made, we are allowed to glimpse not only what life has become, but what it once was for Tusker and Lucy, and to see how the order of things has flipped on its head and yet remained the same in so many ways. ...because when I look back on it, when I sit back and concentrate on it, I feel that India brought out all my worst qualities. I don't mean this India, though Heaven help me I sometimes don't see a great deal of difference between theirs and the one in which I was memsahib, but our India, British India, which kept me in my place, bottled up and bottled in, and brainwashed me into believing that nothing was more important than to do everything my place required me to do to be a perfectly complementary image of Tusker and his position. Married for 40 years, and having spent most of that in India, their decision to remain and not return to England was made mainly for financial reasons. Now they find themselves older, nearing the end, and the situation for them is all too real and desolate. She would be alone. She would be alone in Pankot. She would be alone in a foreign country. There would be no one of her own kind, her own colour, no close friend by whom to be comforted or on whom she could rely for help and guidance. The question whether she would be virtually destitute was one that frightened her so much that even her subconscious mind had been keeping that fear buried deep. After reading the Raj Quartet and seeing how the Raj ruled and crumbled, it is sad to see the aftermath for those who remained. Both the English and the Indian population had to make serious adjustments, and as is often the case, the older generation on both sides met those changes with trepidation. המשך, או אם תרצו קודה, לרביעיית הראג'. בתחילה הרגשתי מאוכזב, נראה קצת כמו תבשיל שבושל בהסח הדעת מן השאריות שנשארו מן הראג'. הסיפור מתפתח לאט מאוד ולוקח זמן עד שהפואנטה של הכל מתבהרת. ובכל זאת, הסיפור גדל על עצמו. סיפור של כישלון, של זיקנה, של אהבה ושל המתח הגדול בין הודו של האימפריה והודו המודרנית. שמח שקראתי. Story of a couple who decide to stay on in India after the British leave and India takes over. The characters are interesting but what I liked most was the look at this aging couple and the wife's sudden realization that she is going to be left a widow in India and doesn't even know what she'll have to live on and what she will do. There is also the examining of culture. Lucy left England, she was never quite good enough in British circles in India. In Lucy's thoughts we learn all this background story. It's a story of looking back, of reflection. A symbol of this retrospection is that their preferred conveyance is the Tonga, a horse-drawn carriage in which they choose to sit facing backwards, "looking back at what we're leaving behind". I like themes of aging and this book really captures it well. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979. "Staying On far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deserves—as one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."—Robert Towers, Newsweek "Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."—Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review "A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."—Paul Gray, Time "Staying On provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement."—Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book Review Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A backdrop for Staying On is the tapestry of culture and caste. What it means to have wealth and status in a country on the verge of finding a new identity. The Smalleys and the Bhoolabhoys are no different in their hope for the future. ( )