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Chargement... Census (2018)par Jesse Ball
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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. This tale has a lot of artistic analysis juxtapositioned with the inner monologue of the central character. He is on a journey with his childlike adult son, and as the story is written in the 3rd-person, much of it is a reflection piece of his past alongside the forward journey to his inevitable conclusion. While there are parts that feel a bit dense in the handling of the artists recollected (his wife and a performance artist, an author he is obsessed with and references many times), the themes persist and reassert themselves for an overall cohesive story. There is much talk of birds, using the car as a means of transportation and mobile home, outdoors observations, visiting strangers for the census, his evolving role and adherence to the responsibility of being a census-taker in the unidentified time and place of the novel. I especially liked the philosophical arc as it focuses on the role of artistic expression, impending mortality, documenting life and lives, leaving the reader with many quotable takeaways. ( ) Quan el pare d'un jove amb síndrome de Down, vidu, rep la notícia que li queden pocs mesos de vida, apareix l'angoixa sobre el futur del seu fill, a qui estima intensament. Sense cap recurs ni pla, i amb el desig de veure el país en un darrer viatge,l'home accepta la feina de realitzar un estrany cens per a una misteriosa oficina governamental. Aquest és l'inici d'un viatge que portarà pare i fill per diferents ciutats, que l'autor anomena amb les lletres de l'alfabet, a través del qual coneixeran tot el que té de bo i de dolent la naturalesa humana. I a mida que s'acosten a la ciutat Z, el darrer destí, el pare haurà d'enfrontar-se a algunes de les preguntes que no s'ha volgut fer fins ara: Quin és el propòsit del cens? N'és còmplice? I, sobretot, com serà capaç d'aprendre a acomiadar-se del seu fill? Clearly I am not intellectual enough for this book; where others have seen imagery and meaning, I found a bunch of random paragraphs with no sense of cohesion at all. Cormorants? Someone suggesting a doctor leave one of his instruments in a patient? Bizarre “clown” acts that involve doing nothing but stare at the audience for an hour? I thought this was meant to be about a father-son relationship. The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text. In the case of Census, someone took the typewriter away too soon and came up with this garbled mess instead. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns. When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son??a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son. Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach "Z," the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son? Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our most captivating young writers. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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