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A carregar... Berichten van het Blauwe Huis (1986)por Hella S. Haasse
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Twee zussen groeien op in het Blauwe Huis. Ze hebben een Argentijnse moeder en een Nederlandse vader. Ze zijn heel verschillend. De een wordt diplomatenvrouw, de ander trouwt met een Argentijnse danser en ondervindt de junta in Argentinië aan den lijve. Als ze allebei weduwe zijn en al wat ouder, trekken ze voor een tijdje in het Blauwe Huis. Het wordt niet helemaal wat de oudste zus er van verwacht had. Zeker niet nadat zij de stiefzoon van haar zus heeft opgespoord en uitgenodigd eens langs te komen. Voor de nieuwsgierige buurvrouw heeft het zelfs fatale gevolgen. Leuke vorm van commentaar van dorpsgenoten op de gebeurtenissen in het Blauwe Huis (tweede persoon meervoud) en het in de derde persoon enkelvoud vertelde verhaal. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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This seems to be a book about conformity and rebellion and the way they work themselves out in women's lives. The narrative voice alternates between a conventional omniscient narrator with privileged access to the thoughts of the four women at the centre of the story and a "we" narrator, a kind of Greek chorus, representing the collective, disapproving view of the village gossip-machine. And the four women are sorted carefully as well: Felicia and Nora have lived safe, conformist lives, taking careful control of how they are perceived in the world and waiting for the big moment when they can do the thing they really wanted to (although they may well have missed it already...); Nina and Wanda are rebels, constantly running against the walls and hurting themselves. Nina has done some good in the world despite all the obstacles - she has been a dancer and political activist in Argentina - but the author has condemned poor Wanda to a life of chasing illusions.
A very densely-written, short novel in which every fleeting reference and transitory image turns out to have been working hard for its living, and probably a book you can go back to many times to find different threads of meaning in it. And a rather bleak view of life.
(But also fun in a totally anachronistic way: it's hard to stop yourself thinking that a book which starts out with a dull, respectable Dutchman marrying a glamorous and unreliable Argentinian must have some kind of buried satirical message, even if it was written a couple of decades before the Dutch radio first broke out into orgies of bandoneon music...) ( )