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A carregar... The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterpor Carson McCullers
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Coming-of-Age As the title implies, this is a book about loneliness and people's various ways they attempt to cope. Each of the characters had a driving passion that they kept hidden except when they spewed out feelings to someone who did not or could not respond. In some ways it's a bleak book but it does reflect the human conditions I can see why some people love this book. It's a great book for people who like this sort of thing. But all the characters are sad and lonely and want to connect with others, but that connection mostly means a sort of selfish wallowing in their own needs with the one unselfish guy who they use as a sort of mirror to keep themselves company. And that poor guy is mostly bewildered and uncomprehending by their endless prattling and neediness, and just wants to be together with his dear friend (lover?) who really just wants to eat food. Then things end The characters were well drawn and their stories mostly interesting but it's been a while since I read a work of fiction that left me so depressed. Audiobook via Audible, with an excellent performance by Cherry Jones. I was going to give this three stars because at least I managed to finish it, but on reflection, I'm downgrading it to two stars.
No matter what the age of its author, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" would be a remarkable book. When one reads that Carson McCullers is a girl of 22 it becomes more than that. Maturity does not cover the quality of her work. It is something beyond that, somthing more akin to the vocation of pain to which a great poet is born. Reading her, one feels this girl is wrapped in knowledge which has roots beyond the span of her life and her experience. How else can she so surely plumb the hearts of characters as strange and, under the force of her creative shaping, as real as she presents—two deaf mutes, a ranting, rebellious drunkard, a Negro torn from his faith and lost in his frustrated dream of equality, a restaurant owner bewildered by his emotions, a girl of 13 caught between the world of people and the world of shadows. Carson McCullers is a full-fledged novelist whatever her age. She writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is a first novel. One anticipates the second with something like fear. So high is the standard she has set. It doesn't seem possible that she can reach it again. Pertence à Série da EditoraEstá contido emTem a adaptaçãoTem um guia de estudo para estudantes
Story centers around a deaf-mute in a southern town, who, because of his affliction, must "listen" and so receives the confidences of many. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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