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La Noche De Los Tiempos (2009)

by Antonio Muñoz Molina(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Seix Barral

review 1: Bajo esta reflexión sobre la memoria, el pasado y los caminos bien (y mal) tomados, subyace la memoria borrosa y, al mismo tiempo, imborrable de los comienzos de la Guerra Civil española. En su técnica narrativa, la novela de Muñoz Molina se acerca a a Proust y a Henry James, con toques de Ford Maddox Ford e incluso James Joyce en representación del mundo interior de su protagonista ; Clarín y la novela del fin de siglo española se dibujan en la amplitud y profundidad del mundo social asfixiante que retrata el autor. Incluso se notan toques de posmodernismo, momentos en los que el autor/narrador se comunica con el lector, rompiendo por un instante la barrera artificial que separa la realidad de la ficción. Una obra de madurez y una de las pocas novelas "escritas ... morepara adultos," como Virginia Woolf describió la obra de George Eliot, "Middlemarch."
review 2: "A love story set against the background of the Spanish Civil War" describes this novel, but does not begin to do it justice. It's about memory, time, exile, obsession and betrayal; it is so beautifully written (and translated) as to be, at times, breathtaking. The author's control of the narrative and his deep feeling for his characters are remarkable: the protagonist is weak and selfish at times, yet I never lost sympathy for him (I lost patience at times, but never sympathy), even though his betrayed wife is one of the most sympathetic characters in the story. I wish my Spanish were good enough to have read it in the original, but Edith Grossman's translation is fantastic. less

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