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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. My wife bought me this. Someone could imagine this an act of sorts, considering the subject. My wife has an eye for literature, what works and what is simply fad. She finally read this when we were coming back from Morocco. The trip was inspired by Goytisolo himself, not that he suggested such. He was simply there, hence we went. I reread this on the short British Airways flight back to London. I was noshing sausages and drinking ale to make up for lost time. This is a mystic work, one which flips our understandings of Sarajevo, inserts and transpalnts the sufferings to our Western idleness and indifference. The narrative is rife with eschatology, it probes into the ancient wisdom of the souk and follows such into the toxic vapors of nationalism. ( ) "The voices of a siege are myriad and multivalent, even though we are usually only treated to that of the victor—either the voice of the army that finally storms the beleaguered city or the collective voice of the citizenry that successfully repels the besiegers. Rarely do we hear the voice of the military commander of the impotent and inept International Mediation Force. Rarely do we hear the voice of the victim of fatal sniper or mortar attack. Rarely do we hear the voice of one enduring the siege, attempting to navigate bullets and a "war" economy. Yet, these are exactly the voices that we hear in Juan Goytisolo's novel of war-torn Sarajevo, State of Siege, in addition to the voice of one who has been in the city to observe and write about it (as Goytisolo has). His novel is a Möbius strip of narrative. There are at least three main interconnected narratives woven into one seamless story that falls in on itself again and again. A character in one of the narratives reads about himself in another; a character in that other narrative reads about himself in the prior. The absurd, claustrophobic, paranoid existence of a siege is perfectly captured by Goytisolo." Read it all at http://troysworktable.blogspot.com/2007/05/siege-dreams.html sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures. "State of Siegeis a novel of pure fiction, but infinitely more powerful than all the big speeches about Bosnia."--Le Nouvel Observateur "A passionate dialogue with the reader, a reflection on privacy and commitment [engagement], with the steady vigilant presence of a great literary voice."--Le Monde "The reader is thrown into the unreality of a besieged city, as if a firm hand had rudely pushed him out of the tank that brought him from the airport."--L'Express "For the Spaniard Juan Goytisolo, writing is a dangerous adventure."--Lire "Dreams, reminiscences of the war in Spain, thoughts on the novel, borrowings from mystery and detective fiction, references to ancient cultures and Arabic culture, numerous allusions to the narrative structure of Don Quixote--these make up the form of this novel that, as the author says in an ironic and provocative way, isn't written 'according to the rules.'"--Fayard Presse Juan Goytisolowas born in Barcelona in 1931 and lives in Marrakech. In 1993, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for his literary achievement and contribution to world culture. His translated works include a two-volume autobiography,Forbidden TerritoryandRealms of Strife, the novelsMarks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, Quarantine, Virtues of a Solitary Bird, The Marx Family Saga, andThe Garden of Secrets, and the essaysSaracen ChroniclesandLandscapes of War. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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