Tales of Freedom
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ein weiteres anregendes Werk des Gewinners des Booker-Prize, in dem Dichtung und Erzählkunst zusammenkommen. Wir treffen auf Pinprop, den Sklaven eines alten Paars, der in seinen Händen die Schlüssel zu Universum hält. Dann ist da ein gut angezogener Russe...
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Ein weiteres anregendes Werk des Gewinners des Booker-Prize, in dem Dichtung und Erzählkunst zusammenkommen. Wir treffen auf Pinprop, den Sklaven eines alten Paars, der in seinen Händen die Schlüssel zu Universum hält. Dann ist da ein gut angezogener Russe im Zug, der eine neue Version von "Eugene Onegin" drehen will. Später, im Chaos der Nachkriegszeit, malen verwaiste Kinder sonderbare Formen wie Bullen, Vögel und Mischwesen. Hat die Trauer ihr Genie entfesselt? ... "Tales of Freedom" ist eine unvergessliche Perlenkette von Bildern, die im Schein des Lichts aufblitzen und glitzern. Sie ermöglicht uns, mit einem nahezu überweltlichen Blick auf diese extreme und düstere Welt zu schauen, in der wir leben.
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As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, this skill was shown to particular effect in both Starbook (his most recent work) and in The Famished Road.In Tales of Freedom he brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. Thus we discover Pinprop, the slave to an old couple lost in a clearing, who holds the keys to the universe in his quirky hands. Then there is the beautifully dressed black Russian on the train, helping to film a new version of 'Eugene Onegin'. Later, in the chaos of the aftermath of war, orphaned children paint mysterious shapes of bulls, birds, hybrid creatures, and we wonder if grief has unhinged them into genius...And who is that woman, who hardly speaks, who presses a tiny flower into the palm of the young boy on the bus, and then leaves his life forever?
Tales of Freedom offers a haunting necklace of images which flash and sparkle as the light shines on them. Quick and stimulating to read, but slowly burning in the memory, they offer a different, more transcendent way of looking at our extreme, gritty world - and show the wealth of freedom that's available beyond the confines of our usual perceptions.
Autoren-Porträt von Ben Okri
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ben Okri
- 2010, 208 Seiten, Maße: 12,7 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 1846041597
- ISBN-13: 9781846041594
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Tales of Freedom “
"Beautifully distilled...these tales are full of simple, elegant description...Rarely, perhaps, has the love of ideas been expressed as simply and unpretentiously" Glasgow Herald "Tales of Freedom may transport into regions of untold rapture" Telegraph "Moments of genuine poetry and insight" Guardian
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