Sunday, March 20, 2011

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Hans Castorp: Who was he?

Nearly 700 close-spaced printed pages and minimizing the page margins, make the house of Hans Castorp a place where it is reassuring to venture for a player who is not accustomed to the great Russian novels or , reading the title of the novel whose protagonist is Hans ( The Magic Mountain), has been confused with the more controversial recent novels and serials, based on vampires and unsolved mysteries, with isolated villages and imposing castles from thin foundation literature. Moreover, the Corbaccio, which has the merit of having revived the readers a new edition of the powerful novel by Thomas Mann in 2011 in the series "The great writers, "he chose for the cover photo of a grim Alan Powdrill that hints at an eerie lake surrounded by a girdle of mountains, flattened by heavy clouds that are about to capture the only living being who has ventured into those places: a gull, which is easy to imagine a horrible fate. So the possibility of confusion to readers of vampire love is high.
Here, however, the fascination of death, of which Thomas Mann is a very skilled performer (think "Death in Venice") melts and mixes with a dry humor that the author has defined a very long short story that is " triumph a drunken mess of a life dedicated to the highest order . Hans Castorp comes from this order. When he arrives at the sanatorium, which will become the unchanging backdrop for his initiation to disorder , is drunk with solid and respectable consistency.
Then with an impalpable time stream will pass through the illness, love, passion, rationalism and the irrational pessimism, but in none of these transits will find the meaning of his research. Why is Hans Castorp explorer of souls and this will point to the waiting, the stillness as pick for the discovery.
Only when the
might have found it, realizing that " there are two roads that lead to life: one is the usual, direct, honest. The other is bad, leads through death and is brilliant ", will start to enjoy his discovery, which led him to disappear into the belly of the war.

Thomas Mann, in his speech at Princeton University, asked its readers to read The Magic Mountain at least twice in order to discover all that lay just beneath the surface of its large short story. It is not an easy. Many test themselves with this book and many drop out. " Too many issues, too many thoughts, too many descriptions, too little action, too much self-analysis, too ambitious, too much and just ."
These are the most common comments that I recorded on the book by those who abandoned him. All fairly understandable. We will not say that this is a constituent of the books of European literature of the twentieth century, nor I will tell you that you have to have a book, read, breathe, as many critics and writers have repeatedly reminded us.

's probably true. But what took me several times to take, leave, start over, throw out of bed this book was a single question: Who was really Hans Castorp?

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

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A word, a verse: Seventeenth - "discontinuity" The

discontinuity sf [der. discontinuity]. - 1. Lack of continuity, interruption in time or space, even in the sense fig. Of everything that is not continuous, consistent 2. In physics, abrupt changes in space or in time of a physical quantity.



An empty glass, broken plastic, goes back and forth on the window, invisible to passengers. The selected music flows in their thoughts, beats them, urges them to fail.

The hand holding the glass is dirty, almost like glass on which it rests.

is a desire mat that sticks to the life of someone else.

Someone arms thin and nervous, from the belly large and festive, one-eyed planted down in the floor of cigarette butts and bottle caps, someone who expects his hand to stop, that the glass disappears, the noise will confuse the next beep beep that stirs the doors of our time.

Here, all free, we can continue.



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Sunday, March 6, 2011

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Skaz and "Catcher in the Rye"

tidy up the old books, I happened to his hands, "The Cather in the Rye (Catcher in the Rye) Jerome David Salinger. One of the most popular books in the history of modern literature. A book of passage from adolescence to adulthood, found that many people will read in years when the anger is great and is easy to think of it explodes on fake shift breaking "all the big toes that in the body "(to use one of the brilliant and notorious jargon Holden / Salinger).
Who among us has not wanted, at least for a day, Holden Caulfield and be able to be so free from the crowd of babbioni around him? To finally say everything he had in mind, without fear of shocking, but rather with the passion to do it?

I is, sometimes I go again.

Catcher in the Rye, however, is also a very interesting text from the linguistic point of view, the emblem of the so-called style Skaz "Ie connected to a first-person narrative that has the characteristic of the spoken word rather than written.

The player He comes often in constant repetition, slang, exaggeration is not justified, grammatical errors. In short, everything to which any creative writing manual warns him. Yet it is precisely this conscious and skillful blend of shortcomings to make the perfect book and dramatically new. Few writers would be able to stay for the entire novel, I stood inside the rails of the slang of a seventeen year old, without poetic metaphors, pretentious reflections and jumps rhythmic.
Everything is perfectly integrated into the mind of Holden and running on our lips clean, leaving the implication that pervades the narrative take root a bit 'more to us at every rereading.