scriptsnsa.blogg.se - Cain by José Saramago

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) To god's inscrutable words and deeds, Saramago juxtaposes an eminently readable narrative of work and poverty, class and desire, knowledge and timelessness" - Roberto Ignacio Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle

"Like a postmodern Creator of sorts, Saramago crafts a new world by recycling a series of well-known episodes and interpreting them from the viewpoint of a common reader.

Comedy and boundless complexity: Saramago’s novels have been called parables, but they are not allegories." - Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review The effect is sometimes comic, but with a complex, outraged commitment far beyond parody.

"The narrative veers drastically away from tradition and back toward it and then away again with radical aplomb.

Every little barb, every little twist is absolutely deliberate." - Daniel Hahn, The Independent He's often funny, and thought-provoking, and delightfully mischievous, savouring the details of his own defiance.

(.) Saramago is a first-person narrator who keeps himself just out the corner of your eye. "(T)here is more to his anachronistic unpicking of the Old Testament than a mere wish to shock.The prose is seasoned throughout with clichés, which Saramago confuses with irony, and there are platitudes aplenty (.) Cain is neither original nor particularly provocative." - Ian Sansom, The Guardian

"For those unfamiliar with the Saramago style, therefore, Cain both tells the primal story and acts as a useful primer.Stetig die Stilregister wechselnd, die Grenzbereiche von Ernst und Humor, von Nüchternheit und Agitation, von Reflexion und Erzählfreude auslotend, erreicht Saramago bei aller Polemik eine fragile Heiterkeit, die sich stets des drohenden Abgrunds bewusst ist." - Florian Borchmeyer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

(.) Dennoch besitzt Kain einen Charme, der Saramagos vorausgehenden Büchern abging: lakonische Eleganz. "So macht er Kain zum Vater aller Zeitreisenden, wie sich auch überhaupt sein Bibel-Remake zusehends als ironisch-eklektisches Potpourri unterschiedlichster Literaturgenres entpuppt.(.) Hats must be doffed once again to Margaret Jull Costa, Saramago’s fearless long-time translator, for taming his punctuation-free prose, rendering it not only readable, but enjoyable" - ÁGurría-Quintana, Financial Times "Above all, Saramago takes great pleasure in pointing out the gratuitous cruelty of the Old Testament’s God, and the idiocy of the priapic patriarchs who committed atrocities in his name.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : creative spin on Old Testament tales Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.