Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore. Through Tom and his charismatic boss, Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances, which leads him to a reckoning with his past.
The Brooklyn Follies 8 csillagozás
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2005
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Ez az ember egy ZSENI! Gondolt egy merészét és egy kicsit viccesebbre vette a figurát. A könyv első fele olyan, mintha megírta volna a Három testőr brooklyni változatát. Három férfi, akik teljesen átlagos emberek, megjárták már a poklot, bukdácsoltak egész életükben, hibát hibára halmoztak, és amikor egymásra találnak valami hihetelen véd és dacszövetség jön létre köztük. Aztán jön egy kislány, aki ezt az egészet felborítja, de teljesen jó értelemben. És nem csak azért remekmű, mert árad az egészből az életigénylés, hanem, mert Auster nem felejti el elmesélni, hogy miért zseniális Poe, Kafka vagy Hawthorne. De, azért az utolsó 1,5 oldalon megint olyat ír, hogy az embernek leesik az álla.
Kicsit nehezen indult be, de aztán Lucy megjelenésével már egyre jobban tetszett. Néhol olyan volt, mint egy Woody Allen film.
Népszerű idézetek
… I was too weak to stand up for myself, too nervous to fight back. That's what happens when you think the other person is better than you are. You stop thinking for yourself, and pretty soon you don't own your life anymore. You don't realize it, Uncle Nat, but you're fucked. You're absolutely fucked…
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„Poe and Thoreau”
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„It's about nonexistent worlds”, my nephew said. „A study of the inner refuge, a map of the place a man goes to when life in the real world is no longer possible”.
„The mind”.
„Exactly. First Poe, and an analysis of three of his most neglected works, The Philosophy of Furniture, Landor's Cottage, and The Domain of Anheim. Taken alone, each one is merely curious, eccentric. Put them together, and what you have is a fully elaborated sístem of human longing.”
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„What they give is a description of the ideal room, the ideal house, and the ideal landscape. After that, I jump to Thoreau and examine the room, the house, and the landscape as presented in Walden.”
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"No one ever talks about Poe and Thoreau in the same breath. They stand at opposite ends of American thought. But that's the beauty of it. A drunk from the South – reactionary in his politics, aristocratic in his bearing, spectral in his imagination. And a teetotaler from the North – radical in his views, puritanical in his behavior, clear-sighted in his work. Poe was artifice and the gloom of midnight chambers. Thoreau was simplicity and the radiance of the outdoors. In spite of their differences, they were born just eight years apart, which made them almost exact contemporaries. And they both died young – at forty and forty-five. Together, they barely managed to live the life of a single old man, and neither one left behind any childrea. In all probability, Thoreau went to his grave a virgin. Poe married his teenage cousin, but whether that marriage was consummated before Virginia Clemm's death is still open to question. Call them parallels, call them coincidences, but these external facts are less important than the inner truth of each man's life.
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