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Laddar... Bring Up the Bodies (2012)av Hilary Mantel
  
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  ) emmby | Oct 4, 2023 |  "She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful. " "Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door. " taurus27 | Sep 15, 2023 | ) DoraLevyMossanen | Aug 29, 2023 | If you read the first one then for god's sake read this one too, and if you haven't read the first one yet then this is no place to start. (  ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 | ) Octavia78 | Jul 26, 2023 |
 Here, as elsewhere, Mantel’s real triumph is her narrative language. It’s not the musty Olde English of so much historical fiction, but neither is it quite contemporary. The Latinate “exsanguinates” is a perfect 16th-century touch, and so is that final, Anglo-Saxon “gore.” In some of her books, Mantel is pretty scabrous in her descriptions of present-day England, its tawdriness and cheesiness and weakness for cliché and prettifying euphemism. “Bring Up the Bodies” (the title refers to the four men executed for supposedly sleeping with Anne) isn’t nostalgic, exactly, but it’s astringent and purifying, stripping away the cobwebs and varnish of history, the antique formulations and brocaded sentimentality of costume-drama novels, so that the English past comes to seem like something vivid, strange and brand new.  Geen gehijg tussen de lakens in Bring up the bodies (Het boek Henry), geen hete kussen bij maanlicht. Toch is Hilary Mantels versie van de perikelen van de Tudors de meest opwindende ooit. Is Bring Up the Bodies better than, worse than or equal to Wolf Hall? While lacking, necessarily, the shocking freshness of the first book, it is narrower, tighter, at times a more brilliant and terrifying novel. Of her historical interpretations, Mantel says in her afterword that she is "making the reader a proposal, an offer", but what is striking is how little concerned she is with the reader. Her prose makes no concessions to the disorientated: a moment's distraction and you have to start the page again. Mantel, like Cromwell, seems not to mind if we are there or not: she is writing, as he was living, for herself alone. "Mantel knows what to select, how to make her scenes vivid, how to kindle her characters." We read historical fiction for the same reason we keep watching Hamlet: it's not what, it's how. And although we know the plot, the characters themselves do not. Mantel leaves Cromwell at a moment that would appear secure: four of his ill-wishing enemies, in addition to Anne, have just been beheaded, and many more have been neutralised. England will have peace, though it's "the peace of the hen coop when the fox has run home". But really Cromwell is balancing on a tightrope, with his enemies gathering and muttering offstage. The book ends as it begins, with an image of blood-soaked feathers. But its end is not an end. "There are no endings," says Mantel. "If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. This is one." Which will lead us to the final instalment, and to the next batch of Henry's wives and Cromwell's machinations. How much intricate spadework will it take to "dig out" Cromwell, that "sleek, plump, and densely inaccessible" enigma? Reader, wait and see. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Året är nu 1535. Thomas Cromwell, smedens son, är Henrik VIII:s närmaste man. Hans stjärna har stigit jämte Anne Boleyns, hon som blev kungens andra hustru och för vars skull Henrik bröt med Rom. Men Henriks politik har isolerat England och Anne har misslyckats med det hon lovat sin make: att föda honom en son. När Henrik besöker godset Wolf Hall ser Cromwell hur den orolige kungen förälskar sig i den tysta och enkla Jane Seymour. Cromwell vet direkt vad han har att göra: få fram en »sanning« om Anne Boleyn som ger kungen giltigt skäl att skilja sig och ta sig en ny hustru. I För in de döda, den andra delen i den trilogi som inleddes med succén Wolf Hall, skildrar Hilary Mantel en av de mest mytomspunna och skrämmande episoderna i den engelska historien: krossandet av Anne Boleyn. Hilary Mantel, som har en lång rad uppmärksammade romaner bakom sig sen debuten 1985, har tilldelats Englands mest prestigefyllda pris, Man Booker, för både Wolf Hall och För in de döda. Det är unikt i prisets historia. Wolf Hall möttes med jubel av kritiken och blev i Sverige, liksom i övriga Europa, också en kommersiell framgång. [Publit] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Deltog i LibraryThing FörhandsrecensenterHilary Mantels bok Bring Up The Bodies delades ut via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
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