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Chargement... How to Paint a Dead Man (2009)par Sarah Hall
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |  It's a really slow book, and there aren't really any surprises or tensions as the four narratives are offset in time such that you mostly know what is going to happen in one as it has already happened in another. I think this helps though, it let me sit back and luxuriate in the imagery and all the feelings that evoked. ( ) mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 | I liked this book OK until it got near the end and then things got tied together, or not, and the characters got icky. Is that fair? I don't know. It wasn't clear what the Italian artist (Giorgio) was accused of & it wasn't clear what he was guilty of. Trying to be neutral? Collaborating with the Fascists? So maybe the characters were always icky. The Italian girl's story was not clear to me. The older brother seemed to be a sexual threat; the younger brother is not much there & I don't know if her rape&murder is supposed to have created in him the impetus for the affair with the bereaved sister. Is that all it was for? How did the father get the bottle? When he's stuck on the cliff he thinks about his biggest act of evil which is enabling & then failing to save his first wife -- so if that's his worst then he wasn't the murderer. But was it? Was he? What was the point of that murder? OK, not everything has a point but the horrible sexual fear of the mother then getting translated to reality? And the artist's wife...maybe for both the male artists...were ciphers, just filling in as carers and caregivers. Anyway, so it left me with a bad feeling & I wouldn't recommend it. Not that anybody will read this to find out if they should read the book, I hope. franoscar | Apr 25, 2020 | The characters in the story written by an artist - exciting, fascinating and inspiring; The author succeeded in characterizing each nature separately and yet forming them into a complete plot, describing completely different landscapes in vivid and complementary colors, examining disturbing and turbulent emotions in precise and delicate language. Reading the book is a delightful experience, whether in the mind of the heroes or the particular philosophy of works of art and is strongly recommended. ( ) Lithamerrsmith | Jan 9, 2019 | ) Eye_Gee | May 8, 2017 |
 "People are aware of the heart, slopping about like a piece of lively meat inside the chest, as if it isn't snug, as if it hasn't been fitted right." Sarah Hall knows how to write a good sentence. Her ripe, tangy prose, as effective on landscape as it is on people's minds, gave her an auspicious start as a novelist, pushing her first novel, The Electric Michelangelo, on to a Booker shortlist and winning the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her third, The Carhullan Army. How to Paint a Dead Man will not disappoint her champions. It is a stylish novel, as replete with ideas as it is technically ambitious, interweaving four separate strands and characters across different times and places.  Conceptually, Sarah Hall’s fourth novel is quiveringly impressionistic. There is a plot, of sorts, unrolled through the stories of four separate individuals whose lives are linked in formal and informal ways, not least by their artistic passions. It’s tempting with a novel steeped in art to comment that the characters are lightly drawn, but here they truly are. What Hall wants us to focus on more is the hinterland of mood and sensation, accessed through the poetry of her prose: twins in utero hearing 'the wet chamber music’ of their mother’s body, or market-goers 'pausing at the cheese counter with its loamy globes’. Prix et récompenses
Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Hall's most accomplished work to date. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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