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| Original Title: | De fortabte spillemænd |
| Edition Language: | Faroese |
William Heinesen
Paperback | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 3.91 | 181 Users | 10 Reviews
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| Title | : | Glataðu spælimenninir |
| Author | : | William Heinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | 1975 by Emil Thomsen (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Danish. Scandinavian Literature. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Denmark |
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Heinesen succeeds in making the everyday world of Tórshavn at the beginning of the 20th-century the stuff of a Greek tragedy. Devotion to music is at the heart of this book. A group of amateur musicians, the Boman Quartet, prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy, as music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own bleak situation. There is humour in the satirical, larger-than-life portrayal of the local sectarians, led by the bank manager Ankersen, as they seek in vain to break the spirit of the musicians, as well as earthy humor in Janniksen, the huge blacksmith who is completely at the mercy of his petty-minded wife.Rating Of Books Glataðu spælimenninir
Ratings: 3.91 From 181 Users | 10 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books Glataðu spælimenninir
William Heinesen is the best-known writer that the Faroe Islands have produced. He wrote mainly in Danish, but all of his books, which are set in the Faroe Islands, have been translated into his native Faroese. When Heinesen heard rumours that he was to win the Nobel Prize he requested that his nomination be withdrawn, discussing his choice to write in Danish with a mixture of bitterness andNot sure if something was lost in translation but this one read a bit flat.The book traces a number of characters living in the 1920s, probably in the Faroe Islands. In the main the men are dreamers, musicians, poets and drunkards. There are a couple of rogues and cads and plenty of hard luck stories. The women seem to have the backbone but are pushed aside in line with the times. The rise of prohibition, including removing all sense of fun, is slowly rolling along.The book reads like a seriesThis is a novel in the vein of George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe and others, giving a rich portrait of a place by following multiple characters and their overlapping lives. What kept this from working as well as it might have, though, was how much of it felt like stage-setting or superfluity. Toward the end, plotlines intersect and tension rises as all the characters are touched by central events. But for much of the book there's no sense of connection as whole lines of plot and character develop
Set in the Faeroe Islands of the early 20th century, The Lost Musicians follows the lives of numerous characters in the islands capital. The pace of life and the pace of the book is slow. The characters meander along, taking pleasure in their families, their surroundings and their music whilst the rise of religious sectarianism and prohibition casts a shadow over events. The translation feels a bit flat, and at times it feels like a serious of loosely connected essays, then when major events
Not sure if something was lost in translation but this one read a bit flat.The book traces a number of characters living in the 1920s, probably in the Faroe Islands. In the main the men are dreamers, musicians, poets and drunkards. There are a couple of rogues and cads and plenty of hard luck stories. The women seem to have the backbone but are pushed aside in line with the times. The rise of prohibition, including removing all sense of fun, is slowly rolling along.The book reads like a series
A moving, many-faceted instant classic, written in delightfully eloquent Danish.
En fortælling om 5 spillemænd og deres venner og familie. Temaet er Det gode i mennesket og deres kamp imod det onde (indremissionen, grådigheden m.m.) repræsenteret bl.a ved den hellige Sparekassebestyrer Ankersen og hans indremissionske afholdsforening "Ydum". De 5 livsglade spillemænd holder meget at fest, musik og alkohol, hvilket ikke falder i god jord hos Ankersen. Derfor SKAL de omvendes ...... Bogen er delt op i 4 satser som et stykke musik.Heinesen maler et morsomt og kærligt portræt af
The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen is a look back into the early years of the twentieth century when the alcohol prohibition movement that was sweeping the world made its way to the distant Faroe Islands.It's not only alcohol that winds up being banned, but also music and joie de vivre. Apparently these were inextricably bound -- either in Heinesen's mind, or in the minds of the Baptists that powered the prohibition movement.So in a way The Lost Musicians is about the ascendency of religious
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