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Chargement... White on Whitepar Aysegül Savas
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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. An unnamed narrator in an anonymous city is a graduate student researching nudity in medieval sculptures for her thesis. She moves into an apartment and her older landlady, an artist married to an art historian, comes to town and moves into her studio upstairs. She assertively befriends the student with gifts, treats and conversation. The writing is restrained and beautiful representing the measured interest and elegant character of the protagonists. But the intensity of the relationship increases lending an air of suspense to a poetic journey through art and distress. I warmed to the book as I read. ( ) It's short. Its prose is spare and functional. It features almost no particulars: no last names, no place names, a nameless narrator. Oh, no, it's an example of modern European fiction! But that isn't to say that "White on White" is a bad novel, even though I suspect that it won't be many readers' cup of tea. Given the sort of book that it is, it probably won't surprise you to learn that this one is unlikely to get anyone emotionally involved. Still, what it lacks in immediacy it makes up for in structural rigor. Whether you'll enjoy reading "White or White" is a matter of taste, but it is, at the very least, well-executed. It's themes are admirably consistent: careful readers will be able to identify images and metaphors that evoke containment, limits, and empty space throughout the text. That's fitting: the novel's characters lead lives that are productive and comfortable, but whether they're happy or fulfilled is another question entirely. The book's ending, which is both cruel and shocking, asks us to examine to examine that question and will likely leave many readers feeling jarred. Is this an enjoyable or fun book? I don't think most people would call it that. But "White on White" might just be a good book, and for some readers, that's all that really counts. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound" (Marina Abramović) novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner café, the kitchen at dawn, Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art - which is always just about to be created. As the months pass, it becomes clear that Agnes might not have a place to return to. The student is increasingly aware of Agnes's disintegration. Her stories are frenetic; her art scattered and unfinished, white paint on a white canvas. What emerges is the menacing sense that every life is always at the edge of disaster, no matter its seeming stability. Alongside the research into human figures, the student is learning, from a cool distance, about the narrow divide between happiness and resentment, creativity and madness, contentment and chaos. White on White is a sharp exploration of empathy and cruelty, and the stunning discovery of what it means to be truly vulnerable, and laid bare. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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