- Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Granta Books; Auflage: New edition (12. Januar 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1862070423
- ISBN-13: 978-1862070424
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,4 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (15 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 60.068 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Produktinformation |
Mehr über die Autoren
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
Produktbeschreibungen
Amazon.com
Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not the first writer to make a major character a physicist. Jonathan Lethem mined similar territory earlier this year in his delightful book, As She Climbed Across the Table, and now Winterson enters the lists with not one, but two physicists populating the pages of her equally wonderful book, Gut Symmetries. If you think about it, physics does make a good metaphor for love, encompassing as it does the principles of attraction, the exchange of energy, and unification. At the center of this meditation on "the intelligence of the universe" and "the stupidity of humankind" are Jove, a married physicist; Alice, a single physicist who becomes his mistress; and Stella, Jove's wife and later, Alice's lover. They meet on the QE2 and from there the three participants in the story take turns telling their versions of it.
Gut Symmetries is a collage of memories, snippets of scientific theory, meditations on abstract concepts like truth, and the events surrounding Jove, Alice, and Stella's affair. This is a book that demands your attention, jumping as it does from one seemingly tangential topic to another; but whereas physics still seeks a grand unification theory (GUT) to explain how everything in the universe fits together, Winterson actually finds one of her own in this satisfyingly complete fictional world. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
From Booklist
Given the title, it's no surprise to discover that bizarre acts of eating are key plot elements in Winterson's new novel about a love triangle, but "gut" is also linked with "instinct" and "GUT" is an acronym for Grand Unified Theories, the gold physicists seek through the alchemy of their lovely speculations. And speaking of physicists, two of Winterson's embroiled lovers are such, and questions of matter, energy, and flux are mirrored in conflicts of love, desire, and guilt (that's where the symmetry comes in). The physicists--Alice, and Jove, who is married to a poet named Stella (stars, too, are important)--begin their affair on board the QE2, another significant clue since ships of fools figure prominently in this cosmic drama. Such details point to Winterson's cleverness, but they can't begin to convey the soulfulness of this masterfully written, highly suspenseful, and penetrating bisexual love story. Winterson, ever innovative and unnerving even as she is enchanting, dives to remarkable emotional depths as she moves toward the revelation that "total beauty" is what makes life worth living. Donna Seaman
-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Einleitungssatz
November 10 1493. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Sun in Scorpio. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Rückseite
November 10 1493. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Sun in Scorpio. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Mehr entdecken
Wortanzeiger
Ausgewählte Seiten ansehenWortanzeiger
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Rückseite
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Eine digitale Version dieses Buchs im Kindle-Shop verkaufen
Wenn Sie ein Verleger oder Autor sind und die digitalen Rechte an einem Buch haben, können Sie die digitale Version des Buchs in unserem Kindle-Shop verkaufen.
Weitere Informationen
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
If you have ever had any doubts, "Gut Symmetries" is proof that Wintersen's fiction demands an educated, intelligent reader who is serious about reading. Call me a snob if you will, but I have no sympathy for anyone who thinks this book is too hard to read or doesn't get the story. This isn't a book that a reader can race through, discarding lyric passages and descriptions wily-nily, picking out the events in chronological order, and hurrying to finish.
In many ways the metaphor is the message. If you want basic "plot" handed to you on a platter, then this book will probably not agree with you. This plot is not constructed in the run-of-the-mill, straightforward, linear plot structure that we have come to expect from television, movies, and mainstream fiction. It does not pander to the modern sense of impatience. Instead, the telling of the story relies on three different narrators, and the story is told using a non-linear episodic plot structure. Like Wintersen's other books, notably "Sexing the Cherry," the reader must rely on subtle clues to connect the pieces of the story together.
As for content, I got so involved in the story that I actually yelled at one of the characters when the "plot twist" (mentioned in the prior reviews) arose. (As well as at two other passages, at least.) Ah but again, perhaps with an eye towards metaphor the message changes...
Reading this book takes a little more effort than the average paperback. You've got to engage your mind (and perhaps, at times, your dictionary) to stay on top of it. In my opinion, it's well worth the read--a fine addition to any modern fiction library.
Format:Taschenbuch
OK, it's been a while since I've read this book, but I remember almost feeling tingles when I heard about it...I too, have thought that physics is the meaning of life, and I ADORE any considerate mediation on relationships, but alas this book was horrible. It may have been a huge letdown because I was looking forward to it so much as I LOVED "The Passion" and "Written on the Body". I found this book to be entirely tooooo tangental and poetic words leading into boxed up nothings.
Format:Taschenbuch
lyrical and poignant. And I basically give this book four stars for its writing. Yes, the plot is complicated and the themes are relevant and fascinating. The writer is erudite, and thoughtful, reminiscent of Umberto Eco, or Tom Sheppard. But I found it difficult to fathom the motivations of the main characters. The two main female characters dedicate their fate to a man with no decent qualities (a preening, egotistical, lecherous old man with a severe Napoleonic complex and phallic obsessions!) The narration is by far the best part of the book with its suggestions of the grande parallels between mutable "life" and the immutable forces of nature.
Möchten Sie weitere Rezensionen zu diesem Artikel anzeigen?
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Die neuesten Kundenrezensionen
Gut Symmetries may be history in the making...
As a student of the art of fiction, I have been increasingly depressed by the state of "literature" today...reading Gut Symmetries was a revelation! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
mind opening
What I loved about this book is the way it completely debased our ways of usual ways of percieving the world and each other. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Perhaps I expect too much....
Perhaps reading this novel just after losing my son, and believing that Winterson as a writer of magical rescue from the human condition could do it for me now is expecting too... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Amazing call to re-think the world that surrounds us
Reading Gut Symmetries does not mean just reading a novel. There are many philosophical passages (a lot of them using physics and the new theories about how the way the world... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. November 1998 von marga@poetic.com
What was this book about?
Must be something wrong with me...I read to be entertained, often to learn something, always for the pure enjoyment of the story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1998 veröffentlicht
Perhaps the worst supposedly "literary" work I've read!
I was a bit suspicious of this book after reading the back, considering how familiar some of its ideas sounded. (Anyone ever hear of Tom Stoppard? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. August 1998 von greggory@earthlink.net
Disappointing
I looked forward to this enormously, but was left with a "so what?" feeling at the end. Thomas Hardyesque coincidence about 2/3 of the way through (the previous... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
First heard, then read - a pleasure each time.
For those of you who haven't had the chance to hear Jeanette Winterson read her work aloud, take any opportunity that comes your way: her words fly, sing, dance around your head as... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 1998 von 106146.3056@compuserve.com
a very tricky one-trick pony
jeanette winterson is my favorite writer; i'll tell you that right off. also i am all geeky for physics too, and was glad to see such obvious allusions to physical theory, even... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. August 1997 von green@dls.net
Somewhat disappointed
At first, the usual spell took over -- the language, themarvellous cerebral poetry. But as the book wore on (literally) thewords grew heavier, and I began to long for a real... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Juli 1997 veröffentlicht
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
