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Laddar... Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (urspr publ 2004; utgåvan 2020)av Marilynne Robinson (Författare)
VerksinformationGilead av Marilynne Robinson (2004)
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But in Gilead, Robinson is addressing the plight of serious people with a calm-eyed reminder of the liberal philosophical and religious traditions of a nation whose small towns "were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter peace", citing a tradition of intellectual discursiveness and a historical cycle that shifts from radical to conservative then back to radical again, and presenting, as if from the point of view of time's own blindness, an era when unthinkable things were happening but were themselves about to change unimaginably, for the better. It takes issue with the status quo by being a message, across generations, from a now outdated status quo. "What have I to leave you but the ruins of old courage, and the lore of old gallantry and hope?" Gradually, Robinson's novel teaches us how to read it, suggests how we might slow down to walk at its own processional pace, and how we might learn to coddle its many fine details. Nowadays, when so many writers are acclaimed as great stylists, it's hard to make anyone notice when you praise a writer's prose. There is, however, something remarkable about the writing in 'Gilead.' It's not just a matter of writing well, although Robinson demonstrates that talent on every page [...] Robinson's words have a spiritual force that's very rare in contemporary fiction -- what Ames means when he refers to 'grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials. Marilynne Robinson draws on all of these associations in her new novel, which -- let's say this right now -- is so serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it. Gilead possesses the quiet ineluctable perfection of Flaubert's "A Simple Heart" as well as the moral and emotional complexity of Robert Frost's deepest poetry. There's nothing flashy in these pages, and yet one regularly pauses to reread sentences, sometimes for their beauty, sometimes for their truth: "Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts." Ingår i serienGilead (1) PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Berättelsen tar formen av ett långt, episodisk brev som den åldrige, hjärtsvage reformerte pastorn John Amos skriver över en period av flera veckor till sin senfödde son: om sin egen uppväxt och familj, om tro, om sina innersta tankar. Fadern och farfadern var också predikanter i den lilla staden Gilead i Iowa, uppförd av abolitionister som ett led i kampen mot slaveriet, en utpost nära gränsen till Kansas: farfadern hade varit militant, uppmanat männen i församlingen att strida för nordstaterna, medan fadern var radikal pacifist. Spänningen mellan dem upplöstes aldrig.
Det boken i huvudsak får spänning av är dock en hemvändande son till Amos presbyterianske kollega Robert Boughton, även han åldrig, och tydligare märkt, medan John Amos Boughton är en medelålders man, familjens svarta får, som tvingades bort när han gjorde en ung flicka gravid men som nu återkommit under faderns sista dagar, av oklar anledning, och tvingar Amos att skärskåda sitt ressentiment.
En långsam roman, ett skärskådande av ett liv levt i religionens namn, stillsamt på en plats vars syfte sedan länge förlorats och där det enda som återstår verkar vara den lilla människans dagar. Förlåtelse, nåd, faderskap, teologi – det är många idéer som vävs samman, och på ett sätt som aldrig känns forcerat. ( )