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A carregar... Zoli (2006)por Colum McCann
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I would give this book 4-1/2 stars. As always, Colum McCann's prose is gorgeous, the sense of place is palpable, and the story is unique and interesting. I just felt that the main character, Zoli, felt a little two-dimensional, and I don't think Mr. McCann captured the female perspective very well. Zoli thinks and acts more like a man in this story, IMO. The story is purportedly based loosely on the live of a Romani poet Papusza, and it set against the backdrop of World War II and the subsequent communist takeover of eastern Europe. Zoli is at once a tale of the cultural and literal diaspora of a people who reject western "progress," a love story, a tale of betrayal, and a story that resonates in our ever-fractioning Western society. ( ) I had no idea what this book was about, but I needed a book that started with Z for my 2023 A-Z reading challenge, and I knew Colum McCann's work from Let the Great World Spin. Zoli is a beautifully written book that traces the life and loves of a Romani woman, based loosely on Polish poet Papusza (1910 - 1987). Drawing from archival and authoritative sources (e.g. the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at UT Austin), McCann offers a narrative that bears witness to the history of the Romani people in how they were outcasts and exploited in the name of "advocacy". Zoli herself is a wonderful multi-dimensional character who must navigate and choose identities for her own survival. We see her as a child, raised by her grandfather, a young poet/songwriter--exploited and caught in political contexts out of her control, an exile and refugee both, and as an aging mother still determined to express her own agency. Die Romni Marienka Novotna, genannt Zoli, wächst in den 1930ern in der heutigen Slowakei auf. Nachdem ihre Familie einem Pogrom der Hlinka-Garden zum Opfer gefallen ist, zieht sie mit ihrem Großvater nomadisierend durchs vom faschistischen Ludaken-Regime regierte Land und überlebt den Krieg und die Verfolgung versteckt in Wäldern. Früh lernt sie lesen und teilt ihre Gedanken in traditionellen Roma-Gesängen mit. Nach der Befreiung durch die Sowjets und der Etablierung des Kommunismus wird man auf den literarischen Wert ihrer Gesänge aufmerksam und versucht diese zu publizieren. Zoli wird zur Avantagarde beim Versuch der Sesshaftmachung der Roma und ihrer Etablierung in die slowakische Gesellschaft. Doch dabei gerät sie in Konflikt mit den traditionellen Riten ihrer Kumpania und wird vom Stammesgericht für unrein erklärt. Mc Canns Zoli ist ein fiktionaler Charakter, ihre Lebensgeschichte orientiert aber lose an der Biographie der Bronisława Wajs, einer um 1910 geborenen polnischen Roma-Dichterin und Sängerin. In seinem Werk beschreibt er das Leben und die Entwicklung der osteuropäischen Roma von der Zwischenkriegszeit über die Verfolgung während des Faschismus und dem zweiten Weltkrieg, dem Versuch (und dem Scheitern) ihrer Integrierung in die kommunistische Nachkriegsgesellschaft sowie deren aktuellen Status am Rande der mittlerweile entstandenen pluralistischen Demokratien. McCanns hat gut recherchiert, sein Werk gibt tiefe Einblicke in die Gesellschaft der Roma. Er offenbart ihre Lebensweise und Traditionen. "Zoli" ist ein interessanter ethnologischer, kulturhistorischer und zeitgeschichtlicher Streifzug durch das 20. Jahrhundert Mitteleuropas. Vorwerfbar ist jedoch, dass auch McCann Klischees bedient und so ein Roma-Bild zeichnet, welches von der heutigen Gesellschaft der Roma und Sinti mehrheitlich abgelehnt wird. A beautiful and harrowing novel by one of my favorite contemporary American authors. It traces the life of a female gypsy poet from the horrors of World War II, to the stultifying world of Communist Eastern Europe, to a dramatic escape to the West. We see so much of European history through the lens of this incredibly articulate, sensitive soul, all told with McCann's densely descriptive narrative intensity. For a taste of the prose, here's the opening sentence: "He drives along the small streambed, and the terrible shitscape looms up by increments--upturned buckets by the bend in the river, a broken baby carriage in the weeds, a petrol drum leaking out a dry tongue of rust, the carcass of a fridge in the brambles." It's been a while since I've read the book, but I still see that "tongue of rust" in my imagination, along with so much else in this brilliant book.
To understand all is to forgive all, the French saying goes. In “Zoli,” a novel about the Gypsies of Eastern Europe, Colum McCann imagines a deeper, darker watchword for this immemorially wandering and persecuted people: to be understood, even in part, is to be violated and destroyed.... The story he tells, a fiction partly based on history, can be absorbing, and it contains passages of stunning lyricism and sharp ironic force. It is the characters that fall short. To a greater or lesser extent they seem little more than his ideas about them, and the roles he has them play. While the story is about Zoli, Colum McCann exquisitely depicts the Roma people in an exotic yet poignantly real way that will fascinate every reader. Laced throughout Zoli’s search for meaning in her poetic gift is an accurate and vivid account of the cause of true art, a people who are willing to suffer and rejoice in the face of the most formidable prejudice and fear. Their independence and ardent love of life is Zoli’s true story, “since by the bones they broke/We can tell new weather.” Zoli is an amazing story you will want to read and cherish. Drawing on extensive research and visits to Romani settlements in Slovakia, McCann (Dancer, 2003, etc.) re-imagines the iconic Gypsy poet Papusza in the fictional guise of Zoli, whom we first meet at age six, fleeing with her grandfather, having narrowly escaped a Fascist pogrom in which their family and kumpanija (Gypsy band) died.... McCann artfully weaves Romani traditions, superstitions and expressions into a vibrant tableau, vividly rendering Zoli’s conflicting urges to flee and stay. After a tortuous journey, alone, on foot, across three countries, she is smuggled across the Alps into Italy, where she finally reconciles with her harshest persecutor, herself. In his bittersweet fourth novel, McCann chronicles the imperiled world of the Slovakian Roma (Gypsies, to their enemies) from World War II through the establishment of the Communist bloc.... The narrative switches between third- and first-person, though it is strongest when narrated by Zoli. McCann does a marvelous job of portraying a marginalized culture, and his world of caravans, music and family is rich with sensual detail. Distinctions
The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until the spring, when the ice cracked and everyone drowned - Zoli's parents, brothers and sisters. Now she and her grandfather head off in search of a 'company'. Zoli teaches herself to read and write and becomes a singer, a privileged position in a gypsy company as they are viewed as the guardians of gypsy tradition. But Zoli is different because she secretly writes down some of her songs. With the rise of the Nazis, the suppression of the gypsies intensifies. The war ends when Zoli is 16 and with the spread of socialism, the Roma are suddenly regarded as 'citizens' and 'comrades' again. Zoli meets Stephen Swann, a man she will have a passionate affair with, but who will also betray her. He persuades Zoli to publish some of her work - a coup because there has never been a gypsy poet. But when the government try to use Zoli to help them in their plan to 'settle' gypsies, her community turns against her. They condemn her to 'Pollution for Life', which means she is exiled f was sentenced to a Life of Pollution by her fellow Roma when a Polish intellectual published her poems. But Colum has turned this into so much more - it's a brilliantly written work that brings the culture and the time to life, an incredibly rich story about betrayal and redemption, and storytelling in all its guises. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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