Hanne Marie Svendsen
Auteur de The Gold Ball
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Œuvres de Hanne Marie Svendsen
Under the Sun (Series B: English Translations of Works of Scandinavian Literature) (1991) 16 exemplaires
Geschichte der dänischen Literatur 1 exemplaire
Romanens veje 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1933-08-27
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Denemarken
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 140
- Popularité
- #146,473
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 55
- Langues
- 7
Svendsen tells the story of an island through a series of scenes and segments from the lives of its inhabitants, starting with one family's progenitor and then following various descendants across a few centuries. She presents individual scenes and vignettes that, individually, may be well done (e.g. introducing the island's changed state through an infant's acquisition of vocabulary) but they do not congeal into a larger whole. They are presented without intrinsic purpose, merely as waypoints along a storyline that needs to move along to the next generation, and so I found it hard to care about the characters or the things they get up to. (The descriptions of parties & weddings etc. were especially uninteresting). The various focal characters within each generation are introduced, they live, they do something that makes them different from the others, they die, and there's no consequence to any of it, since they are really only there to produce the next chapter's characters.
This virtually inhuman, long-term perspective (and the commentary on humanity's relationship to the world) may have been important in getting the book's themes across, but I do not feel it sustained my engagement for the duration of an entire book.… (plus d'informations)