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Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masters skill. As in such books as Shroud and The Book of Evidence, the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masters skill. As in such books as Shroud and The Book of Evidence, the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Es trifft in der Tat zu, dass "The Sea" keine typische Unterhaltungslektuere ist. Der Protagonist und Ich-Erzaehler Max Morden muss den Krebstod seiner Frau Anne verkraften und kehrt in das Kuestendorf Ballyless zurueck, an den Ort, an dem er vor mehr als fuenfzig Jahren als elfjaehriger Junge einen Sommerurlaub verbracht hat, dessen traumatischer Verlauf ihn sein gesamtes Leben nicht losgelassen hat.
Die Erzaehlung wechselt mehrmals zwischen den beiden Zeitebenen hin und her. Berichtet uns Morden gerade noch von seinen Erlebnissen mit den Zwillingen Chloe und Myles in Ballyless, handelt der folgende Abschnitt vom Sterben seiner Frau "vomiting on the floor, her burning brow pressed in my palm, full and frail as an ostrich egg" (160).
Es ist weniger die Handlung als vielmehr die universellen Themen Liebe, Verlust, Tod und Einsamkeit sowie Banvilles geradezu poetische Sprache, die die Klasse von "The Sea" ausmachen. Literatur schafft es ja eher selten direkt und unmittelbar auf den Leser zu wirken. Banville gelingt dies mehr als nur einmal. Seinen ersten Kuss mit der fruehreifen Chloe umschreibt Max mit den Worten: "As at a signal [...] Chloe and I turned our heads simultaneously and, devout as holy drinkers, dipped our faces towards each other until our mouths met. I felt as if we were flying, without effort, dream-slowly, through the dense, powdry darkness" (143f.).
Diesem Gluecksgefuehl der ersten Liebe stehen Mordens Gedanken ueber den Tod und die Vergaenglichkeit des menschlichen Lebens gegenueber: "True, there will be something from us that will remain, a fading photograph, a lock of hair, a few fingerprints, a sprinkling of atoms in the air of the room where we breathed our last, yet none of this will be us, what we are and were, but only the dust of the dead" (119).
Fazit: Ein untypischer, aber inhaltlich und vor allem sprachlich einer der besten Gewinner des Booker Prize der vergangenen Jahre. Wahrlich ein "Kunstwerk".
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