Blind Assassin
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 813
EAN: 9780385720847
ISBN: 038572084X
Label: Anchor Books
Hersteller: Anchor Books
Anzahl Seiten: 540
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001-04
Herausgeber: Anchor Books
Studio: Anchor Books
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.co.uk:"It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward," writes Margaret Atwood, towards the end of her impressive and complex new novel,
The Blind Assassin. It's a melancholic account of why writers write--and readers read--and one that frames the different lives told through this book.
The Blind Assassin is (at least) two novels. At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel,
The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of
The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).
With the intelligence, subtlety and remarkable characterisation associated with Atwood's writing (from her first novel,
The Edible Woman through to the best-selling
Alias Grace), these two stories play with one another--sustaining an uncertainty about who has done what to who and why to the very end of this compelling book. --
Vicky Lebeau
Amazon.com:The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be:
What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain.
Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase's novel,
The Blind Assassin, posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what's in plain sight. And memory isn't much of a salve either, as Iris points out: "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them." Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she's capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris's spliced-in memoir, it's clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her.
--Darya Silver
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So in etwa die ersten hundert Seiten von 'The Blind Assassin' waren nicht so toll. Auf Grund so vieler verschiedener Erzählstränge (von denen man zu dem Zeitpunkt noch nicht mal ahnt, wie sie miteinander verknüpft sind!) ist es total schwer, so richtig in die Handlung einzutauchen!
Dann aber, wie man es von Margaret Atwood gewöhnt ist, wird das Buch wirklich super, man kann es kaum noch aus der Hand legen und wird süchtig danach!
Es geht um zwei Schwestern, Laura und Iris, die schwere Schicksalsschläge hinnehmen müssen: plötzliche Verarmung der Familie, Tod der Mutter, ...
beide Mädchen verarbeiten alles unterschiedlich, weil sie so verschieden sind. Laura ist die jüngere und sensiblere, weswegen man Iris lange Zeit für eifersüchtig auf die Schwester hält. Doch bald wird klar, dass die eine nicht ohne die andere kann, nicht zuletzt, weil beide ein Geheimnis teilen: sie verstecken den Mann, von dem es heißt, dass er die Fabrik ihres Vaters angezündet haben ...
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Margaret Atwood ist eine meiner absoluten Lieblingsautorinnen und auch mit diesem Werk hat sie meine (hohe) Erwartungshaltung an ihre Bücher erfüllt.
The Blind Assassin ist eine dunkle Familiengeschichte, die zwar in den ersten 100 Seiten zäh vorankommt, sich danach aber so facettenreich entfaltet, dass ich dieses Buch kaum mehr weglegen konnte.
Zuerst fiel mir die Verstrickung von beinahe 4!, zunächst unzusammenhängenden, parallelen Erzählsträngen schwer, doch nachdem ich erkannte, dass sie alle ineinander verwickelt sind und im Prinzip als Hintergrund die selbe Story (nämlich die Familientragödie der Haupterzählerin Iris) gemeinsam haben, war ich von dieser Erzähltechnik begeistert. Ausserdem steigern sich alle 4 Stränge parallel in der Spannung, was die Nächte länger werden liess :-).
Interessant fand ich auch die Zeitungsartikeln, die von Margaret Atwood elegant eingebracht werden. Sie verraten immer schon im voraus, was passiert. Nach ...
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The book is about an old lady, who, realising that her death is near, starts to write her story for the granddaughter she is not allowed to meet. So the reader is taken back to the twenties, thirties and forties and sees those times through the eyes of a young woman who is forced upon a way of life in order to take care of her family. Parts of a book (the blind assassin) written by the sister of the old lady are mixed into the plot.
This is an extremely good book, very impressive and intensive in its style. It took me about the first 100 pages to get into the story - the mixture of the present, past and the chapters from 'the blind assassin' were a bit confusing at the beginning - but then I nearly could not put it down. I needed to go on reading to reach the end, which slowly started to dawn upon myself. I very much enjoyed reading the book, it kind of gripped me.
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Blind Assasin, der neue Roman von Mararet Atwood, hält, was Atwood verspricht. Von der ersten Seite an wird die Leserin eingesogen in die abwechselnden Erzählstränge zwischen einer älteren Frau mit ihren Erinnerungen an ihre Jugend und den Momentaufnahmen einer wohlhabenden Ehefrau beim Fremdgehen. Letztere Episoden werden durch fantastische Science Fiction-Geschichten ergänzt. Sämtliche Handlungsstränge nehmen stets an Spannung zu, so dass es fast unmöglich ist, das Buch wieder aus der Hand zu legen - ein wirklicher Atwood!
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You're in your late twenties, you're married to one of the most powerful industrialists/politicians in post-war Canada (although you're now living apart), and your beautiful Harpy sister has just died in a mysterious road accident. So what do you do? You publish your sister's first and only novel, and watch as the vultures descend...
Margaret Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel is long and difficult to digest, a veritable seven-course meal. It's taken me a long time of reading and rereading to get my angle upon it. From the start, everything seems relatively straightforward. You know what happens to whom, and where and when they died. The rest of the novel explores have they got there. However, what's most interesting about this narrative is that it does stray from the path, and ventures into the Wild Woods. When Atwood won the Booker, she poignantly praised the work of Angela Carter, which resounds in a small paragraph in the novel: "All stories are about wolves". The ...
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