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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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Charlie's tour through Willie Wonka's chocolate factory reveals marvelous creations more intriguing and delicious than Charlie had ever imagined. One of the most popular titles in juvenile literature, this selection was also listed as an ALA Notable Book. [via]
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Un clásico de niños- [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:
Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in Disgrace he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron's last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter's farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David's disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.
There is much more to be explored in Coetzee's painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view Disgrace as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country's history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee's recent Princeton lectures, The Lives of Animals, an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried [via]
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In the dark world of medieval Paris, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame
Cathedral heroically fights to save the life of a beautiful Gypsy girl about to
be unjustly executed. Told with simple vocabulary and set in large type, this
adaptation of the classic tale is perfectly suited for young readers. [via]
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You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'
This beautiful book includes a series of illustrations by Sulamith Wulfing which accompany stories about fairies and other related poems. [via]
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With the words Once upon a time, the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins, and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbors, and have magical adventures of all kindsand in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve Germanic folkloreand the hard life of European peasants was reflected in the tales they discovered. However, once the brothers saw how the stories entranced young readers, they began softening some of the harsher aspects to make them more suitable for children.
A cornerstone of Western culture since the early 1800s, Grimms Fairy Tales is now beloved the world over. This collection of more than 120 of the Grimms best tales includes such classics as Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Frog Prince, as well as others that are no less delightful.
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
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A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in 1482, Victor Hugo s powerful novel of imagination, caprice and fantasy is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis XI, King of France. Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love, lust, betrayal, doom and redemption. [via]
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A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed. [via]
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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. [via]
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Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, wrote Edmund Wilson, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them. When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicagos stockyards and the laborers struggle against industry and wage slavery. It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickenss Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingmans novel in American literature. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notre-Dame of Paris'
At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via]
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636pages. poche. Poche. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels 1930-1935'
Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works. [via]
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Victor-Marie Hugo (Besanzón; 26 de febrero de 1802 París; 22 de mayo de 1885) fue un escritor, dramaturgo, poeta, político, académico e intelectual francés, considerado como uno de los más importantes escritores románticos en lengua francesa. [via]
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, but his five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston'
This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, a brilliant autobiographical portrayal of a father-son relationship. [via]
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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Charlie est un petit garçon qui vit avec son papa et sa maman, mais aussi avec ses quatre grands-parents. Tout ce monde est entassé dans deux pièces seulement car la famille de Charlie est très pauvre. Lorsque son papa perd son travail, la situation devient dramatique, ils meurent presque de faim. Mais dans la ville où ils demeurent, il y a une mystérieuse chocolaterie : nul n'y entre ni n'en sort jamais. Son propriétaire, Mr Wonka, lance un grand concours : les cinq gagnants pourront visiter l'usine et gagner des sucreries pour toute leur vie. Mais les enfants mal élevés doivent se méfier : ils seront punis par où ils auront péché.
C'est à une merveilleuse exploration que nous convie Roald Dahl, à l'intérieur d'une usine fabuleuse qui recèle absolument tout ce dont n'importe quel gourmand peut rêver et aussi d'autres choses qu'il n'aurait pas osé imaginer : des machines qui fabriquent des bonbons inusables ou des chewing-gums-repas, des cascades de chocolat, des caramels qui font pousser les cheveux... Ce roman fantastique plein de saveurs est à déguster comme un bonbon. C'est en même temps un conte moral où les méchants sont punis et l'injustice réparée. Voilà une gourmandise dont on aurait tort de se priver ! --Pascale Wester [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prisonniers Du Temps'
601pages. poche. Broché. Au beau milieu du désert d'Arizona, un couple trouve sur la route un vieil homme en robe de bure. Il n'a plus sa tête, parle sans cesse d'écume quantique et ses doigts semblent gelés. Il meurt quelques heures plus tard à l'hôpital de Gallup. On ne retrouve sur lui que le plan d'un monastère français du XIVème siècle et un objet fabriqué par la société ITC -entreprise de haute technologie spécialisée dans la recherche en physique quantique -pour laquelle il travaillait. ITC est dirigée par Robert Doniger, un brillant -et non moins arrogant -physicien qui, depuis quinze ans, est à la pointe des recherches, et dont la plus récente et secrète entreprise est de recréer, grâce à une équipe de chercheurs, une communauté médiévale du XIVème siècle en Dordogne. Quelle n'est pas l'extrême surprise de ces historiens de l'université de Yale lorsqu'ils vont comparer le plan des fondations du monastère trouvé sur le vieillard et les résultats de leurs propres investigations: celui-là est plus riche d'informations que toutes leurs recherches! Mais ce n'est que la première de leurs surprises: quelques jours plus tard sont mis au jour des parchemins remontant à six cent cinquante ans: l'un d'entre eux, daté très précisément du 4 juillet 1357, dit "A l'aide". Il est signé par le professeur Johnson, leur propre directeur de recherches, parti deux jours plus tôt rencontrer Robert Doniger. [via]
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David Lurie ist schon in seinem eigenen Leben kein Held, geschweige im dem von jemand anderem. Mit 52 Jahren ist der Protagonist von Schande am Ende seines beruflichen wie auch seines Liebeslebens angelangt und scheint geradezu absichtlich mit dem Unglück zu flirten. Seit langem Professor für Neuere Philologien am Cape Town University College in Kapstadt, wurde er kürzlich zum Assistenzprofessor für Kommunikation derselben Einrichtung degradiert, die mittlerweile ostentativ in Cape Technical University umbenannt wurde.
Obwohl er seiner neuen Disziplin täglich viele Stunden widmet, findet er deren erste Prämisse, wie sie im "Communications 101"-Handbuch formuliert ist, geradezu absurd: "Die menschliche Gesellschaft hat die Sprache erfunden, damit wir unsere Gedanken, unsere Gefühle und unsere Absichten einander mitteilen können." Seiner Ansicht nach -- die er für sich behält -- liegen die Ursprünge der Sprache im Gesang, die Ursprünge des Gesangs wiederum in der Notwendigkeit, die übergroße und ziemlich leere menschliche Seele mit Klang zu erfüllen.
David, der bereits zweimal geschieden ist und dessen äußerliche Anziehungskraft nachläßt, verführt auf ziemlich unbarmherzige Weise eine seiner Studentinnen; sein unschickliches Verhalten wird bald aufgedeckt. In seinem achten Roman wäre J.M. Coetzee vielleicht damit zufrieden gewesen, eine tiefgründige akademische Satire zu schreiben. Aber in Schande hat er sich weitaus mehr vorgenommen, und seine Kunst ist so kompromißlos wie seine Hauptfigur -- allerdings auch unendlich komplexer. Nicht bereit, das Spiel der öffentliche Reue mitzumachen, läßt sich David schließlich feuern -- eine letzte Geste der Verachtung. Nun, denkt er, kann er sich hinsetzen und etwas über Byrons letzte Lebensjahre schreiben -- keine leere, ungelesene Kritik, "Prosa als Meterware" sozusagen, sondern ein Libretto. Zu diesem Zweck reist er in die Ost-Kap-Provinz zur Farm seiner Tochter. Lucy, die Mitte Zwanzig ist, kehrte dem Schick der Stadt den Rücken und lebt nun auf fünf Hektar Land vom Blumen- und Gemüseanbau und einem Hundeasyl. "Nichts könnte einfacher sein", denkt David. In Wirklichkeit könnte nichts schwieriger sein -- oder, jetzt im neuen Südafrika, gefährlicher. Weit davon entfernt, die Zuflucht zu sein, die er gesucht hat, ist in Salem kaum etwas sicher. Gerade als sich David in seine vorübergehende Rolle als Landarbeiter und wenig begeisterter Freiwilliger im Tierheim eingelebt hat, werden er und Lucy von drei schwarzen Männern überfallen. Unfähig, seine Tochter zu beschützen, ist Davids Schande nun komplett. Ihre ist allerdings weitaus größer.
Es gibt in Coetzees schmerzlichem Roman viel mehr zu erkunden, und wenig davon ist tröstlich. Es wäre zu einfach, seinen Titel aufzugreifen und Schande als eine komplizierte Aufarbeitung persönlicher und politischer Schande und Verantwortung zu betrachten. Aber das Anliegen des Autors ist die Geschichte seines Landes, die Brutalitäten und der Verrat. Coetzee setzt sich auch mit der Frage auseinander, wieviel Seele und wieviele Rechte wir Tieren zugestehen. Nach dem Überfall nimmt David seine Rolle im Hundeasyl viel ernster und findet schließlich eine Art Zuhause und ein gewisses Maß an Liebe. In Coetzees The Lives of Animals, vor kurzem in der Schriftenreihe der Princeton University erschienen, erzählt eine alternde Romanschriftstellerin ihren Zuhörern, daß die Frage, die alle Labor- und Zootiere beschäftigt, lautet: "Wo ist mein Zuhause, und wie komme ich dorthin?" Obwohl er im Vergleich zu den ungewollten Tieren, die in seiner Obhut sind, geradezu allmächtig ist, ist David letztendlich genauso gefangen und genauso verloren wie sie.
Schande ist geradezu gewollt einfach. Und doch besitzt es seine ganz eigene magere,herzzerreißende Lyrik, vor allem in den Beschreibungen der ungewollten Tiere. Am Anfang der Geschichte erklärt David seiner Studentin, daß Lyrik den Leser entweder sofort anspricht -- "eine plötzliche Offenbarung und eine plötzliche Reaktion" -- oder überhaupt nicht. Coetzees Buch spricht da anders; seine Schichten und Traurigkeiten wickeln sich endlos ab. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes del mundo. Al principio de la novela sabemos que ITC necesita otra gran cantidad de dinero para seguir adelante con sus investigaciones y para conseguirlo se necesitan pruebas de los adelantos en sus proyectos para enseñar a los posibles inversionistas. Robert decide que las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la región de la Dordogne en Francia son las más avanzadas y allí envía a Diane, una de sus ayudantes para que consiga estas pruebas.
Un grupo de expertos americanos está excavando el castillo de Castelgard y todos sus alrededores. Diane les informa que ITC quiere que vayan más de prisa y que empiecen ya la reconstrucción de los edificios. El profesor Johnson, el responsable de los trabajos, le contesta que es totalmente imposible, que todavía no saben lo suficiente para hacerlo con autenticidad. Pero, es evidente que ITC sabe mucho más que los historiadores de cómo era Castelgard, tiene planos del monasterio, de todo ¿Pero cómo?
Johnson acompaña a Diana a ITC para informarse y lo que descubre ni no lo habría soñado. ITC ha desarrollado un sistema de viajar hacia atrás en el tiempo. El método está basada en la física cuántica, descompone la materia del lugar de origen y lo recompone en el tiempo elegido. Miembros del equipo de ITC ya han viajado al Castelgard de hace 600 años y por lo tanto saben exactamente como eran la ciudad, el castillo, el monasterio...
Mientras tanto en Francia los arqueólogos descubren una pila de documentos dentro de las excavaciones y sobre uno está escrito en su letra un mensaje escrito por Johnson, " Ayúdame, 7.4.1357". Todos los tests demuestran que es auténtico, fue escrito en el año que pone.
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