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Chargement... Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of Historypar Hans Koning
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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. Spoilers. This book was more political than I expected, although I'm not sure why. The hero is a non-conforming intellectual who works in a dead-end bookstore job in NYC, he goes to Europe and sees a woman who he feels represents the old days when the matriarchy was dominant. He tries to follow her, and wanders around Europe having different experiences & getting involved with Basque separatists and with a big-time industrialist, and finds them either working together or not. The big theme is the bad of modern industry/capitalism and the ideal of the matriarchal past aucune critique | ajouter une critique
When Lucas catches a glimpse of a woman in a small Spanish town, his life is changed. She seems to him to be of unearthly beauty, for he sees her as someone from a distant past when we lived under a matriarchy and there was no violence on earth. He tells himself she could be an incarnation of the Goddess Diana. He must find her again.A man seen dining with her is the only link in Lucas's search. This man, who turns out to be a billionaire financier as well as a dangerous enemy of the woman, is occupied with buying all the art in the world, perhaps to protect it from a future war, or because he feels it is wasted on a common public. Lucas trails him throughout Europe and the States, engaged in a duel of wits, which seems lost when the financier's organization has Lucas condemned to death for murder. It is on death row in a Pennsylvania prison that Lucas meets the woman he has been searching for so desperately.Here is an intricate puzzle about a man who has a vision about a woman whose beauty is to be measured not by the standards of man, but "by those of rivers, rain, nature", about undoing the wrongs of history. The novel, Hans Koning's first in eight years, has elements of myth and mysticism, and the same "intense passion" -- the Atlantic Monthly, "humor" -- the New Yorker, "intelligence" -- Newsweek, and "artistic elegance" -- the New York Times that has characterized his previous works. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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