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A carregar... Landscape Painted with Tea (1988)por Milorad Pavić
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Un ingenioso y frustrado arquitecto de Belgrado, Atanas Svilar, emprende la búsqueda de su padre, un oficial desaparecido en Grecia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La verdad de este destino, parte del cual se inició dos mil años atrás, tal vez se encuentre en la historia y los secretos de un antiquísimo monasterio situado en las cumbres del Monte Athos, una inaccesible montaña a orillas del mar Egeo. Sin embargo, esta búsqueda no es más que el punto de partida de un brillante mosaico que depara consecuencias inesperadas: Atanas Svilar se hace rico y célebre bajo el nombre de Atanas Razin, triunfa en California y, a orillas del río Potomac, dirige la construcción de una réplica exacta de la palaciega residencia del mariscal Tito. Mientras tanto, su esposa, la cantante Vitacha Milut, se enamora perdidamente del lector. Only made it about 20 pages into this. If you like reading, just to read words on a page, then I would suggest this book. I mean it does have some value, if you like words these are some pretty neat words and phrases and sentences you probably have never heard before. Each line seems to be mystery, or maybe every other line. You read it and then think, "I wonder what that means?" or "Wow, that is a very strange thing to say." It almost seems like some kind of Buddhist exercise. You could read this book for months, analyzing each line and maybe coming up with a couple of theories about what it means and then move on to the next line. It's a different kind of reading experience. Basically, when I was in college in the early 90's I went through a post modern phase and this book was on a list of post modern books, so I picked it up. It's been sitting on my shelf for more than 20 years and I finally picked it up. This is the first time I have abandoned a book since 1961 when I gave up on Finnegan's Wake. It is too clever by half for me. In my quest for the perfect quirky dreamy novel, this one exceeds even my patience. It is ironic. I bought this book because I was taken in by the title and the cover. Has the lesson been learned? Let us hope. Don't judge a book by its cover! Alone. It needs to have additional known redeeming qualities. This is so sad. I have been hauling this book around since 1990 when it was shiny and new. It should have been read (and abandoned) long ago, and now I have given up at page 18. Not a happy day. Alas. A moment of silence, please.
This was first published in Yugoslavia, translated into French, then translated and published in the USA by Knopf in 1990, and in the UK by Hamilton in 1991. The table of contents shows six numbered chapters in Book One, ‘A Little Night Novel’. Each chapter ‘title’ is a transcription in italics of the opening 15 or so words of the chapter. Book One is followed on page 99 by Book Two, ‘A Novel for Crossword Fans’ – not mentioned in the table of contents, and with no table of contents of its own. Tem um comentário sobre o textoDistinctions
By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller "Dictionary of the Khazars, " "Landscape Painted with Tea, " Milorad Pavic's second novel, is a tale of mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II. The truth about his fate--some of it set in motion 2,000 years ago and some of it by the Nazis-- is raveled in the history and secrets of Mount Athos, the most ancient of all monasteries, perched atop its inaccessible mountain on the Aegean. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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With works like these I tend to let the language and imagery just wash over me and Pavic does not disappoint in that regard either: there is a lot of clever wordplay, fairy and folktales which seem too delightfully playful to be real (or are maybe just presented that way expertly by Pavic), wise women making hauntingly mysterious speeches to the men in their life, and anything else you might want in a surrealist novel by an accomplished poet. ( )