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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Att en kall lördag I februari 2003 kan innehålla så mycket. Boken sätter sig direkt och bara växer för varje sida. Det är en betraktelse av världen ur en hjärnkirurgs perspektiv. Samtidigt påverkas huvudpersonen och hans familj starkt av händelserna under dagen. McEwan tillhör mina absolyuta favoritförfattare med gripande berättelser och ett helt fantastiskt språk. Rekommenderas starkt. ( ) "Lördag" utspelar sig under 24 timmar en februaridag. Vi får följa dagen genom neurokirurgen Henry Perownes ögon. Författaren beskriver förutom de verkliga händelserna under dagen, även huvudpersonens tankar och refelktioner. Han funderar på terroristhot, riktigheten i inavsionen av Irak som står för dörren, Tony Blairs förmåga att ljuga trovärdigt och dyl. Men han funderar även över mer jordnära saker, som sina egna barns färdigheter, sin svärfars knarriga humör... Ian McEwan har i "Lördag" lyckats skapa en fantastiskt realistisk närvaro. Inte en händelse slinker igenom utan att man tycker sig uppleva den verkligt. Han bemödar sig med att göra verkligt bra personporträtt, och hans detaljerade beskrivningar av tex neurokirurgioperationer, squashmatcher och demens är lysande. Detaljrika. En fröjd att läsa. Men även om språket flyter på fint (bra översättning), blir det inte lättläst. Många partier är tunga, inte minst för deras intellektuellt tankeväckande innehåll. Ett bra alster, som förtjänar högt betyg.
L’acuité du regard et le sens du détail dévastateur. La profondeur de la réflexion politique autant que philosophique. Why review a work of fiction for The Indexer? Chiefly because of the author’s use of several very different taxonomies covering neurosurgery, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, blues music, squash and fish. The cumulative effect of this detail is to emphasize that, despite much knowledge, training, experience and wide interests, Perowne is powerless to control unexpected horrors. He uses his brain to heal other brains, but he cannot fathom the workings of the mind. The complex taxonomy of neurosurgery is used twice: at the opening of the book and again near the end. The author could have maintained the reader’s interest and suspense with more simple language, but his careful research has produced a precision that gives a far stronger sense of authenticity, not only to medical indexers who will have little trouble following the procedures. Again with Alzheimer’s disease: the detail contrasts with the lively mother and swimming champion whom Perowne remembers when he visits her in a nursing home. As for Huntington’s chorea, the taxonomy is essential to explain the unusual behaviour of the man who threatens him; he is not the average street thug. The squash game is, again, described moment by moment and gives insight to Perowne’s character: he is desperately keen to win, coming close to an acrimonious dispute with his anaesthetist with whom he has an ideal professional relationship. Even the fishmonger’s slab is described in taxonomic detail which leads to Perowne’s contemplation of moral matters such as whether fish feel pain. Overall, however, Saturday has the feel of a neoliberal polemic gone badly wrong; if Tony Blair—who makes a fleeting personal appearance in the book, oozing insincerity—were to appoint a committee to produce a "novel for our time," the result would surely be something like this. [T]he lambent, stream-of-consciousness narrative that Mr. McEwan uses so adroitly in these pages. In fact, "Saturday" reads like an up-to-the-moment, post-9/11 variation on Woolf's classic 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway." We have learned to expect the worst from Ian McEwan. Since his debut collection of stories, First Love, Last Rites, his fiction has always dwelt at the heart of places we hope never to find ourselves in: the vacancies left in lives by the kidnapped child or the lost lover; the mined no-man's-land that follows extreme violence or sexual obsession. His subject has always been damage and the way the darkest events in a life will drain the rest of love. For McEwan, happiness has rarely gone unpunished. Ingår i förlagsserienGallimard, Folio (4661) Otavan kirjasto (174) Panorama de Narrativas (615) Rainbow pocketboeken (950) PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him-with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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