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Chargement... Everything Happens As It Doespar Albena Stambolova
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lovely, lovely writing. This author is Bulgarian, and the novel was translated into English. So I hope the Bulgarian is as beautiful as the translation! I was engaged by the protagonist from the first page, and completely intrigued by his psyche and his way of moving through the world, along with all the other characters. The theme of this novel is fatalism, trusting in something other than the analytical mind that everything will happen as it does. Fabulous! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Winner of Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Contest, a novel weaving together seven protagonists to show that everything happens as it must. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.8Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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“The book is a strange and beautiful experiment in marrying fairy tale and naturalism. It begins with a mute boy who communes mainly with computers and bees and ends with the passing of his sister/mother/lover Maria, a witch-figure whose inner workings defy analysis while she’s alive, and whose dead body resists even the interpretive acumen of her pathologist ex-husband, a man whose ‘job consisted of finding causes.’… In between, the novel is populated with characters who flicker between realism and myth….”
Another review is even more laudatory, arguing that
“Stambolova tells sinuous tales that snake through the lives of her characters, leaving the reader feeling privy to those deeply personal moments in which life make perfect emotional sense—even as it makes no cerebral sense at all. With Stambolova’s characters, there are many such moments; she renders them with a deft, radically sympathetic patience that captures their sense of wonder whole. They tend…to simply be wired differently than the rest of us, without the need for external coherence and comprehensibility that civilization pushes us to embrace.”
Maybe. But I found the writing challenging, despite its simplicity, perhaps because so little of it seemed to cohere and the story, as this reviewer noted, wasn’t coherent or readily comprehensible. Conclusion? If any of this piques your interest, I’d encourage you to investigate. I suspect others may enjoy it a good deal. As for me, I think I’ll bypass Stambolova in the future. ( )