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Abdita
Abdita rated it 11 years ago
Nie jest to na pewno łatwa poezja. Zastanawiam się nawet, czy w ogóle może być zrozumiała dla kogoś nieznającego języka niemieckiego. Na pewno nie może być w pełni odebrana. Dobrze też jest znać losy i pisarstwo autorki. W tym na pewno pomocne jest posłowie, właściwie większy szkic tłumacza Leszka S...
The Boat Was My Friend
The Boat Was My Friend rated it 12 years ago
Yes, of course poetic prose can be beyond annoying and pretentious. But when it works, it works. The Land of Green Plums is dense, blurry, harsh, emotional, intimate and very poetic. It's also effortless, which makes the reading experience even more exciting and disturbing, as I suspect was the writ...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it 12 years ago
Not so long ago many Romanians like Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller and the protagonists of her novella The Passport (Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt litterally translated: Man is Nothing But a Pheasant in the World) ventured at the bureaucratic troubles involved in legal emigration f...
Leopard
Leopard rated it 12 years ago
The quiet poetry of hunger, powerlessness and death, written in perhaps 80 short episodes, often like prose poems, with only occasional changes of tone towards the ironic or mildly humorous. To be read slowly, and not in one sitting...
Kwiat Paproci
Kwiat Paproci rated it 12 years ago
Wstrząsająca lektura. Styl pisarki nieporównywalny z niczym: szorstki a poetycki, język beznamiętny a wstrząsający i walący obuchem w łeb. Inność tej książki i jej klimat trzyma czytelnika i wymaga po skończonej lekturze rytuałów oczyszczających.
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 12 years ago
I liked "The Land of Green Plums" by the same author, but this novel - while keeping a similar pace, setting and style - doesn't convince me.
Jane's reviews
Jane's reviews rated it 13 years ago
Young Julian is convinced he is better than the poor lifestyle his mum can give him, so with the intention of tasting his dream he befriends the headmasters son. Accompanying the family on a trip to a Scottish estate in the country Julian gets more than he bargained for when he meets his host ‘Julia...
tricours
tricours rated it 13 years ago
I'm guessing this is not for everyone. Very peculiar, but it does set a certain mood.
AC
AC rated it 13 years ago
meh...
Hellen
Hellen rated it 13 years ago
I looked forward to reading this book. Usually I enjoy poetic, (partially) biographical kinds of books with a stream-of-conscious kind of writing. I can't help but feel that something got lost in translation. It could somehow easily imagine this being a great book in its original language, but at le...
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