[WSC]⇒ Descargar Gratis Gathering Anne Enright Books

Gathering Anne Enright Books

Download As PDF : Gathering Anne Enright Books

Gathering Anne Enright Books

This book is a masterpiece. Yes, as many reviewers noted, it is purely a literary piece. So if you are not up for that, it's not for you. Great swaths of the story erupt, in actuality, as long, magnificent poems. Poems of prose. Likely this would not have been the intent of the author, except secondarily, perhaps. But the writing is that good. It is incredible, evocative brilliance. Word smithing in its best light. Yes, the theme of a dysfunctional Irish family spanning the second half of the 20th century (with its rooted fate taking form in the first half) can be an over-worked and tired premise. But this story broke free of any such premise, and from every unintended theme. This is work of mining the soul, an exposition of the fabric of one person's past, pain, and makings. And the clever, persistent inability of memory, or perhaps truth-bearing, to serve us properly in the wake of trauma. Enright makes these revelations, through her main character, in raw, intimate, and inimitable strokes of language that are layered, gorgeous, metaphorical, and masterful. It's not so much about the story; it's about the language, the words, the ability to express deep, truthful, savory, layered human experience through poetic labors - that's what this book is. What a writer. Breathtaking. Bravo, Ms Enright... Bravo!!


Tags : Amazon.com: Gathering (8601300076850): Anne Enright: Books,Anne Enright,Gathering,Vintage Books USA,0099501635,Family Life,Fiction - General,General & Literary Fiction,Literary

Gathering Anne Enright Books Reviews

Educational AND very readable, compared to most ancient works. This is like the script to I Claudius, but it has a lot of valuable history as well. The struggles between the Senate, the people, and the very rich, generals and demagogues who became dictators were in the minds of the Founding Fathers of the US and are still relevant today.

HOWEVER BE AWARE this version has added material written much later than the original, which was written in 121 AD.

I still hightly recommed the whole book, original and added material, both are useful and informative.

Exmples of added material for instance there is a reference to "the pagan world" (page 28, loc 927) and "pounds sterling" (page 25 location 836), and somewhere a quote from St Augustine.

I got a print copy of Penguin's The Twelve Caesars and compared it. It appears all the mini-bios of contemporaries that occur at the end of each emporer's bio are added later. In the life of Julius Caesar, the Penguin book ends at the sentence
"Part of them perished at sea, others fell in battle; and some slew themselves ....

The book continues with "The termination of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey forms a new epoch in the Roman History...". Then follow reflections on the career of Caesar, and short and interesting bios of Cicero, Varro, Cattulus, and others. These were added later, probably in the 19th century by a British writer.

-1 star for not making clear what is by Suetonius and what is not, and for "this book is not enabled for searching"--come on , that's the biggest advantage of digital books.

More on the additions I found the same text on Perseus at Tufts U and it had this information

"... In order to more fully "paint the picture of the times," we have had written and interspersed in chronological order, the lives of all the distinguished associates of the Twelve Caesars, male and female, which we trust will be a great improvement on any previous edition."

He also did some censoring, though he left in plenty
"By the suppression of about two dozen lines in the entire work, which have been indicated by * * * * we have produced a work unobjectionable for general reading; the suppressed passages refer to grossly unnatural crimes which probably never were committed - but the relation of which was likely prompted by the political party rancour of the period."

The Tufts citation Suetonius The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; An English Translation, Augmented with the Biographies of Contemporary Statesmen, Orators, Poets, and Other Associates. Suetonius. Publishing Editor. J. Eugene Reed. Alexander Thomson. Philadelphia. Gebbie & Co. 1889
At first I was very put off by the book because I was lost. I didn't know what had to do with what. But what made me stay with the book is the incredible power of the writing and the dark humor. There are lines in this book that almost make me cry because they are said so movingly. Once I realized what was going on (and I wish we knew a little earlier), then all hell broke lose in my head. This is not a comfortable book; it is an honest, accurate, very real book. The confusion of the narrator in terms of her own abuse was written by someone who obviously knew what she was writing about. A beautiful but sad book which I will remember a long time.
This book is a masterpiece. Yes, as many reviewers noted, it is purely a literary piece. So if you are not up for that, it's not for you. Great swaths of the story erupt, in actuality, as long, magnificent poems. Poems of prose. Likely this would not have been the intent of the author, except secondarily, perhaps. But the writing is that good. It is incredible, evocative brilliance. Word smithing in its best light. Yes, the theme of a dysfunctional Irish family spanning the second half of the 20th century (with its rooted fate taking form in the first half) can be an over-worked and tired premise. But this story broke free of any such premise, and from every unintended theme. This is work of mining the soul, an exposition of the fabric of one person's past, pain, and makings. And the clever, persistent inability of memory, or perhaps truth-bearing, to serve us properly in the wake of trauma. Enright makes these revelations, through her main character, in raw, intimate, and inimitable strokes of language that are layered, gorgeous, metaphorical, and masterful. It's not so much about the story; it's about the language, the words, the ability to express deep, truthful, savory, layered human experience through poetic labors - that's what this book is. What a writer. Breathtaking. Bravo, Ms Enright... Bravo!!