All That Man Is
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Ratings9
Average rating3.7
Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts - the master of a new kind of realism.
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Ville gitt den en klar femmer hvis det ikke var for at femmere skal sitte veldig langt inne. Dette er en ekstremt tankevekkende bok som kommer til å vokse og vokse inn på meg. Tenk deg at forfatteren akkurat nå kom inn i livet ditt, begynte å skrive om deg, og så plutselig om 14 dager narre sluttet å skrive igjen. Sånn er denne boken, ni menn, ni bruddstykker fra ni liv i ulike livsfaser hvor alle - menn - stiller samme spørsmål: Hva er alt dette strevet - hva er en mann?
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Po entuzjastycznej recenzji w „Książkach” spodziewałem się wielkich historii, tymczasem to zbiór niemal prostackich opowiadań. 9 raczej przygnębiających historii o tym, jak obsesja seksu i namiętności zmienia się w obsesję śmierci i samotności. I nawet jeśli już, prawie, pojawia się coś bardziej interesującego - opowiadanie się kończy, zaczyna kolejne.
All That Man Is is written by David Szalay and was short listed for Man Booker prize 2016. Though it is listed as a novel, it is actually a collection of nine stories with many recurring elements and themes. Basically it is a portrayal of manhood through specimens of nine European men of different ages and at diverse stages of life.
Read the full story here :
http://diaryofaragingbull.blogspot.com/2017/02/all-that-man-is-by-david-szalay-warm.html
