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Chargement... The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Storiespar R. K. Narayan
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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. Narayan writes wry, understated stories about domestic life in small-town India during the twentieth century. The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories is filled with tiny heartbreaks and minute revelations; the modulated restraint is so sustained that the rare streaks of malice or wit in these stories are almost shocking. I think I prefer those shocks: the exquisite small-scale tone is so constant as to be numbing, while the louder stories (showcasing such outrageous emotions as distant self-loathing and vague confusion) are arresting. "Second Opinion" features a narrator cleaving both to and from his mother, "Annamalai" is an oblique portrait of the near-friendship between a writer and his gardener, and the eponymous "The Grandmother's Tale" is a family myth refracted through several separate speakers. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeMeulenhoff editie (1363)
There is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child who discovers that his beloved uncle may be an impostor or even a murderer. Standing supreme amid this rich assortment of stories is the title novella. Told by the narrator's grandmother, the tale recounts the adventures of her mother, married at seven and then abandoned, who crosses the subcontinent to extract her husband from the hands of his new wife. Her courage is immense and her will implacable -- but once her mission is completed, her independence vanishes. Gentle irony, wryly drawn characters, and themes at once Indian and universal mark these humane stories, which firmly establish Narayan as one of the world's preeminant storytellers. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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