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Det stora huset
Lee gratis "Det stora huset" 📖 de Nicole Krauss. Disponible en audiolibro. Prueba gratuita durante 14 días. Narrado por Alexandra Rapaport. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Det stora Huset. Nicole Krauss Narrator Alexandra Rapaport. Nicole Krauss lägger omsorgsfullt en mosaik av människors öden och deras livsberättelser i romanen Det stora huset. Fyra sammanlänkande historier som präglas av känslan av förlust, djup sorg och längtan tillbaka till en plats som gått förlorad, men som de vet att vi aldrig mer kan återvända till.
Författaren Nadja och den chilenske poeten Daniel träffas i New York När han åker tillbaka till Chile ber han att få lämna kvar sitt gamla skrivbord i hennes lägenhet tillsvidare. Men han kommer aldrig tillbaka. Han är en de många som försvinner spårlöst i Pinochets Chile. Nästan trettio år senare blir Nadja kontaktad av en ung flicka som säger att hon är poetens dotter och nu vill hon hämta skrivbordet.
Men när Nadja inte längre har det kvar förlorar hon sin inspiration och förmåga att skriva. Detta är en av fyra tätt sammanlänkade historier i romanen Det stora huset, där det gamla skrivbordet med alla sina lådor står i centrum som en metafor för det kollektiva judiska minnet. Vi får följa skrivbordet och dess olika ägare genom tiden och över världsdelar; från Budapest under andra världskriget via London till dagens New York.
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Det stora Huset
Nicole Krauss can string words together effortlessly, can create haunting and memorable imagery through evocative metaphors you'd never dream of. It definitely feels like the form is what interests her, but the Big Idea interconnected stories that are all related to the perhaps malovelent presence of an imposing desk, its many tiny drawers standing in for the melodramatic seekrits! It sounds interesting, but it isn't.
It's monotonous, and confusing. Puzzling out the structure is a pain in the neck because the stories, each with a different narrator, all sound the same, whether the speaker is a middle-aged American woman or an elderly male Hungarian Jew. I don't have to like the characters, but not a one of them had much of a spark, which made reading about them distasteful AND dull. I can't say I'm surprised this was nominated for the National Book Award, but I am disappointed, because I think if it wins, a lot of extra people are going to read it, and a lot of them aren't going to like it.
And I read a lot of other books this year, books that weren't nominated, that I think would benefit from the extra attention and might also be a lot less likely to alienate readers. For all of the depth of talent on display in the prose, this is an oddly lifeless book, and I don't see it connecting with most readers, even "serious readers. As I sit down to assess the past year with Rosh Hashanah fast approaching, I decided to read a Jewish author who I have never read before.
Recently in one of the groups I am in here on Goodreads- the Reading for Pleasure book group- I took a turn holding the quill for the group's Pepys Project, a diary detailing literary births, deaths, and happenings for each day. The last day of my turn was August 18, the birthday of author Nicole Krauss. With her new book Forest Dark due to hit shelves soon, I felt that this was a way of telling me that I should experience the award winning author's works for myself.
Reading descriptions carefully, I decided upon Great House , a title evoking imagery of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem with a multi-layered plot full of surprises along the way. From the novels first pages, it was evident to me that Krauss is both a leading Jewish novelist and literary fiction writer today. The book starts out where Nadia, a writer perhaps meant to be Krauss herself, is talking to a judge.
In a stream of consciousness monologue, Nadia takes her readers down memory lane as she describes her life as a novelist over the last twenty five years. While the story takes place in the present, Nadia's entire existence is rooted with a chance meeting with Chilean poet named Daniel Varsky twenty six years before. Although their affair was brief, Varsky left Nadia his immense desk. This desk, which held more than just sentimental value to Varsky, becomes the focal point of Nadia's career, as she sits there to write seven novels, which become her livelihood.