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Chargement... The End of Days (original 2012; édition 2016)par Jenny Erpenbeck (Auteur), Susan Bernofsky (Traducteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe End of Days par Jenny Erpenbeck (2012)
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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. Brilliant ( ) This was an interesting read. I'm attracted to this author by her historical fiction told by ordinary people leading ordinary lives. This book delivers, with a Jewish/Christian family's life and troubles in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century. But there are a couple of quirks. The story is told in a series of 'sliding doors' segments - the father runs away to Ellis Island and a life in America in the first section, but stays with the family in the second section. An interesting plot device that I quite enjoyed. Hoover, the author's decision to omit virtually all personal names is more problematic. It is hard to keep track of which 'he' or 'she' is the subject. And the 'mother' may also be the 'grandmother'. Maybe the pronouns are less ambiguous in the original German, but I found it lessened my enjoyment. Curiously, personal names appear in the final segment of the book. The author was making some sort of a point, which sadly, escaped me. I've now read two books by Erpenbeck, and I'll be back for more. In this book, we follow a single unnamed protagonist as she experiences multiple lifetimes. It is segmented into five parts and covers a wide swath of the twentieth century. We all know that sweeping historic events can change lives in a major way, but this book also shows how one seemingly small action can change its course. At the risk of stating the obvious, it is a bit morbid. I found it hard to feel invested in these multiple lives since they are not covered in any depth. I am impressed by the author’s writing style and the way she captures the historic panorama, but there are places where it does not flow particularly well (e.g., the third part). I enjoyed Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone more than this one. Next up is Visitation. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Consists essentially of five "books," each of which leads to a different death for an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna, but her strange relationship with a boy leads to another death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, but our heroine is sent to a labor camp. She is spared in the next chapter with the help of someone's intervention and returns to Berlin to become a respected writer. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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