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Chargement... The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even: A Novel (édition 2014)par Chris F. Westbury (Auteur)
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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. I very much enjoyed this read. Two obsessive-compulsive friends take a road trip from Boston to Philadelphia accompanied by their Jewish-Japanese friend because she has a license to drive. I very much recommend it. ( ) The main character has OCD and is friends belongs to a support group. With one OCD friend, and a new non OCD friend, they all set off in a road trip to pick up a chocolate grinder that has been made a close to as possible as the chocolate grinder in Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors or the Broken Glass. There were some really excellent ideas explored in this book by the characters. I especially loved the idea or proportionality when it comes to whether a behavior causes one to be diagnosable. I loved the discussions about religion, art, Duchamp, and OCD, yet the book at times just sort of lingered too long. For me if this book was edited a bit, I would have loved it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This is a wonderful comic novel, about philosophy, the nature of art, the beauty of the ordinary, and about quirky, complete, night & day victims of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Two charming, over-anxious, germ-phobic friends, Isaac and Greg take a road trip from Boston to Philadelphia. They are both obsessed with Marcel Duchamp, his art and his ideas, and thus the destination has to be the largest collection of Duchamp in the world, The Philadelphia Art Museum, the actual place "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" was to be delivered when it was cracked and broken in shipment. The piece is sometimes known as The Large Glass, and today it sits in the middle of a large gallery proudly displayed in its broken state which Duchamp repaired and then certified had been his intention all along. The two men are driven in a rented disinfected Winnebago by Kelly, a beautiful art scholar who smells like a mixture of lemons and fresh sawdust. They intend to pick up an ancient chocolate grinder, an exact working sculptural copy of one used in a Duchamp painting. Isaac intends to grind his own pure chocolate, which will prevent the build-up or arterial plaque, because his mother died of a stroke. Every action has its own suitable reaction, and then some. Isaac hopes eventually to overcome his devotion to his many obsessions and to re-enter the world, evidently his version of the real world. He is not an unreliable narrator, he is a hyper-reliable narrator, consumed by his own attention and thrilled with the connections he sees everywhere all at once. Of course when he finally gets to the museum he must dress-up as a woman to visit the collection. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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