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Olga

Autor Prof Bernhard Schlink Traducere de Charlotte Collins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2021

La intersecția dintre The Reader și The Granddaughter, acest nou volum semnat de Prof Bernhard Schlink combină explorarea intimității marcate de secrete cu o analiză profundă a identității germane de-a lungul unui secol zbuciumat. Apreciem modul în care Schlink reușește să distileze istoria mare în experiența unei singure femei, Olga, o orfană prusacă a cărei inteligență devine singura armă împotriva unei societăți care îi refuză afirmarea. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman rezidă în contrastul dintre stabilitatea interioară a Olgăi și neliniștea distructivă a lui Herbert, aristocratul de care se îndrăgostește, un personaj mistuit de ambițiile expansioniste ale epocii, de la câmpiile Africii până în pustiul înghețat al Arcticii.

În contextul operei sale, Olga rafinează temele recurente ale autorului — vinovăția istorică și greutatea trecutului — prezente și în The Woman on the Stairs sau Homecoming. Totuși, spre deosebire de proza mai scurtă din Summer Lies, aici ritmul este unul contemplativ, lăsând spațiu cititorului să pătrundă în intimitatea personajului prin scrisori și reflecții care se întind pe parcursul a peste o sută de ani. Stilul este sobru, dar încărcat de o emoție reținută, specifică lui Schlink, transformând destinul unei învățătoare de provincie într-o oglindă a transformărilor dramatice ale Germaniei moderne. Este o poveste despre devotament și despre curajul tăcut de a rămâne integru într-o lume obsedată de mărire.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474611152
ISBN-10: 147461115X
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman celor care caută o ficțiune istorică rafinată, departe de clișeele genului. Veți descoperi un portret feminin remarcabil, construit cu minuțiozitate, care oferă o perspectivă lucidă asupra secolului XX german. Cartea este ideală pentru cititorii care au apreciat profunzimea morală din The Reader și doresc să exploreze modul în care marile ideologii afectează, în mod iremediabil, viața de zi cu zi și relațiile umane.


Descriere

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times

Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best.

When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era's dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed.

Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west.

This is the story of that love, of Olga's devotion to a restless man - told in thought, letters and in a fateful moment of great rebellion.

Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

Recenzii

From the author of The Reader comes a brilliant new novel about history and the nature of memory... The story of Olga, translated here from German by Charlotte Collins, is the story of Germany's modern history. It is also a study of memory... You should read this novel if you appreciate the power of history. How do we remember each other? As individuals, or as parts of a larger whole? As they were, or as we wish they had been? The narration can be breakneck: decades pass in single sentences, while other paragraphs describe mere moments. This is the effect of memory; lives are condensed into a series of experiences and relationships. One line still sticks in my head, in a letter from a Norwegian bookseller. "History is not the past as it really was. It's the shape we give it".
A cleverly-constructed tale of cross-class romance... Olga's story draws us into a present-day reckoning with Germany's past.
A poignant portrait of a woman out of step with her time.
Bernhard Schlink, one of Germany's best-loved authors, is famous beyond its borders for the international bestseller The Reader. Like that excellent novel, his latest, Olga, is a searching examination of modern Germany and its scarred soul... there's a sophisticated precision to his writing, which is superbly translated by Charlotte Collins. And in Schlink's macro look at Germany's past, it's the small acts - of kindness and humility - that linger.
This is not a straightforward elegy - and throughout the book, death is not an absolute end. Instead, Schlink frames the novel as a search for meaning, which dances in Olga between a multitude of timeframes and territories. Throughout, Charlotte Collins's translation is careful and beautifully paced
A compelling tale of love and thwarted dreams... Schlink's lucid, no-frills prose lends his novel immediacy, and at times potency, and gives us a character to root for.
One of Bernhard Schlink's secrets stems from his art of telling stories by interweaving the standpoints of different generations in the very same life story. Olga is another very well-done example of that.
In this moving book Bernhard Schlink resurrects the last traces of an unfulfilled love, with his trademark, sophisticated nostalgia.
Bernhard Schlink, whose The Reader we haven't forgotten, impresses again with Olga.
Everything points towards Olga being a new bestseller which can pick up where the international success of The Reader left off. In other words: not to be missed!
Schlink is a brilliant stylist; this bittersweet love affair is deeply moving.
The third part of the novel - letters Olga writes to Herbert after he's set out for the Arctic - is the most beautiful. Here, the camera finally zooms in and we learn of Olga's feelings, how she's torn between hope and fear, love and anger at her lover, who has left her for a madcap expedition.
[Schlink] takes up motifs from his most famous work The Reader. Olga, who fights to be allowed to continue her education, seems like an alternative draft of the illiterate Hannah, whose lacking abilities led to her becoming a concentration camp guard during the Nazi era.
Olga is captivating. Bernhard Schlink tells the story in lucid, serene language. He is a master of this warm, pleasant tone, which has a hint of the old-fashioned to it.
Schlink tells a gripping, true-to-life story which startles you with its unforeseen twists, and not only makes you think, but feel too.
Schlink was and is an author for readers who love intelligently told stories. And they won't be disappointed by Olga.