Julia Lamberts, Professor of Art New York artist in his own right, receives her parents for a few days in the old homestead in Maine she has patched up with her ex husband and she keeps carefully as the receptacle of all the years, the fortunate ones childhood of his son, they also lost her wedding .... I must say it is struggling to rebuild her life, Julia ... And his father, a brilliant neurosurgeon retired, older now, it does not facilitate the task, always cynical, hard and quick to blame more or less hidden. But they are there now, and will do everything to make them enjoyable few days of vacation despite the tension that already installed. Rapid chain of events and not for the better ... His eldest son come around without warning, strange ... to teach him, by ellipses, as Jack, the youngest, shoots himself to heroin ... All
collapses.
Atmosphere camera family where tensions are exacerbated when the unspoken explode have been suppressed for so long. All will have to speak or learn to do to try to save Jack, family therapy is taking place, in spite of themselves. Roxana Robinson excels
to stage what could be a tragedy theatrical - almost unity of place, time and action, including some violent flashback on the descents into hell Jack. But more so I deeply etched in this novel bitter and hard, it is the reflection on the body, its importance and forfeiture which runs throughout the narrative as the weft of the carpet ... The body as a "presence" on the other, the vector itself to be more than just a receptacle.
" How is it, she thought, that when someone sees all the thoughts and emotions of the disembodied person in this aggregate figure, this presence? How the body manages Is it contain all the density be? "The body just
which inevitably deteriorates as a result of old age, disease or drugs ... The body which blunted not only changes our relationship to others, but also same perception we have of themselves and each other ...
Old age that carries all, while it sacked the body, like the tide erodes and wears down to the bone, before withdraw.
" Those persons no longer existed. His father was now barely able to walk, his mother struggled painfully to follow the conversation. His parents were being adrift, engaged in a losing battle against their bodies and minds. the tide went out. "
And drugs, drugs that changes things from the point of not being able to recognize them ... The drug, such as old age, in short, but accelerated.
A very novel and exciting, uncompromising and decidedly not cure your blues to soul ...
- September 2010
1 comments:
one more time, and the date is false !!!
this is the french edition (Buchet Chastel)....
http://lily-et-ses-livres.blogspot.fr/search/label/Robinson%20Roxana
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