- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador; Auflage: Picador. (März 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312421540
- ISBN-13: 978-0312421540
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 14 x 1,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.070.438 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Cruelty, humiliation, and ugly secrets, laced with thin threads of kindness, form the substance of life in the imaginary Greek island on which Karnezis sets the stories in his debut collection. The stories, unfolding in a post-World War II society on the verge of melting into modern culture, are equally dark and funny. The humor, which ranges from subtle to farcical, is never played just for laughs. In the most broadly comic of the stories, "Jeremiad," a man dies quietly while waiting his turn at the state pensions office. His death goes undetected by the others in the room, each too absorbed in his or her own drama to notice he died, even after the silent stranger begins to putrefy. The final sentence of the story works on one level as a punch line, on another as a poignant comment on aging and mortality. Throughout the collection, magic realism leaves fingerprints on the brutally authentic surface of the stories. Although Greek is the author's first language, Karnezis wields English seductively and with devastating skill. Karen Holt
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"Downright miraculous...spry and playful, sly and macabre...Karnezis's language is fresh, lyrical, natural... seduc[ing] you into its magically real and soon-to-be-spectral world."--The New York Times Book Review
"A deft stylist: clear and direct, yet subtly ironic...Like many of the masters of this genre--Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty--Karnezis is adept at delivering one startling surprise after another." --Los Angeles Times
"Fierce, twisted, darkly funny stories...[Karnezis] has a sharp, unsentimental eye for contemporary Greek life, while deftly adding intimations of the pagan past." --The New Yorker
"Sly, witty, fantastical, and tragic, with just a touch of something old-fashioned about them...A terrific read." --The Seattle Times
"What a find!...The fruit of an exceptional and leaping imagination...One searches for comparisons--what one might get if Kafka collaborated with Hal Hartley, Aesop, and Italo Calvino--but Karnezis's originality and freshness, his vivid turns of phrase, are his alone."--Annie Proulx
"A deft stylist: clear and direct, yet subtly ironic...Like many of the masters of this genre--Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty--Karnezis is adept at delivering one startling surprise after another." --Los Angeles Times
"Fierce, twisted, darkly funny stories...[Karnezis] has a sharp, unsentimental eye for contemporary Greek life, while deftly adding intimations of the pagan past." --The New Yorker
"Sly, witty, fantastical, and tragic, with just a touch of something old-fashioned about them...A terrific read." --The Seattle Times
"What a find!...The fruit of an exceptional and leaping imagination...One searches for comparisons--what one might get if Kafka collaborated with Hal Hartley, Aesop, and Italo Calvino--but Karnezis's originality and freshness, his vivid turns of phrase, are his alone."--Annie Proulx
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These strikingly original short stories are set in a small village in Greece, "so poor it doesn't have a name". They are extraordinary: shocking, colourful, amusing, resonant and sometimes tragic. Although Panos Karnezis writes in his second language, his style is fresh and lyrical and he has enriched and subverted English making it into a delight to read. He has created unforgettable characters and has cast a sharp eye on contemporary Greece. He is a master of the genre, like James Joyce, Raymond Carver or Guy de Maupassant.
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Hard Life
16. April 2003
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No slacker, Karnezeis packs 19 stories into this small, 281-page book. The stories are set in a Greek village in the 1950's. Although it contains less than 40 houses, and thus is about to be deprived of official existence, it contains an amazing assortment of personalities, from spinster to prostitute, from priest to thief to pimp. Each has his own hopes and fears. All must cope with an earthquake, a drought and the obliteration of the village by a new dam and reservoir. As many authors, Karnezeis has trouble with endings, sometimes leaving the reader to guess at them and sometimes lacking credibility. Not a native speaker of English, the author muffs a few idioms, as when a character stands on her heels to reach an object overhead. Nevertheless, the work is fascinating and absorbing.
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An explosive imagination
23. November 2004
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I once heard a story about a southern writer -- may have been Flannery O'Connor or Eudora Welty -- who, in response to a foolish complaint that her stories contained far too many freaks and monsters, declared that this was because in the South they can still tell a freak when they see one. This book by Panos Karnezis not only recognizes freaks and monsters but also tries to explore what makes them what they are, thus bringing out the beeauty of their basic humanity as well as their brokenness. This exploration is enormously, sometimes shockingly successful as the author unleashes his expansive, explosive imagination on a Greek town so poor it doesn't even have a name. He involves all the reader's senses, even smell and touch, to describe how his characters make what seem to them reasonable moral decisions and lay out what they consider logical plans for the future they will never have. Their reason and logic is of course the ethos of poverty and ignorance, which is what largely characterizes their existence. The reading public has reason to celebrate Karnezis's arrival on the literary scene. As I understand it, he is still under forty. Good grief.
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Wonderful short stories
23. Juni 2004
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These strikingly original short stories are set in a small village in Greece, "so poor it doesn't have a name". They are extraordinary: shocking, colourful, amusing, resonant and sometimes tragic. Although Panos Karnezis writes in his second language, his style is fresh and lyrical and he has enriched and subverted English making it into a delight to read. He has created unforgettable characters and has cast a sharp eye on contemporary Greece. He is a master of the genre, like James Joyce, Raymond Carver or Guy de Maupassant.
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