- Gebundene Ausgabe: 544 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf; Auflage: Prima edizione (First edition) (5. September 1992)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679410325
- ISBN-13: 978-0679410324
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,9 x 4,1 x 24,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (236 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 107.070 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The Brat Pack meets The Bacchae in this precious, way-too- long, and utterly unsuspenseful town-and-gown murder tale. A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods. During the only one that actually comes off, a local farmer happens upon them--and they kill him. But the death isn't ruled a murder--and might never have been if one of the gang--a cadging sybarite named Bunny Corcoran--hadn't shown signs of cracking under the secret's weight. And so he too is dispatched. The narrator, a blank-slate Californian named Richard Pepen chronicles the coverup. But if you're thinking remorse-drama, conscience-masque, or even semi-trashy who'll-break-first? page-turner, forget it: This is a straight gee-whiz, first-to-have-ever-noticed college novel- -``Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria. Whether from isolation, malice, or simple boredom, people there were far more credulous and excitable than educated people are generally thought to be, and this hermetic, overheated atmosphere made it a thriving black petri dish of melodrama and distortion.'' First-novelist Tartt goes muzzy when she has to describe human confrontations (the murder, or sex, or even the ping-ponging of fear), and is much more comfortable in transcribing aimless dorm-room paranoia or the TV shows that the malefactors anesthetize themselves with as fate ticks down. By telegraphing the murders, Tartt wants us to be continually horrified at these kids- -while inviting us to semi-enjoy their manneristic fetishes and refined tastes. This ersatz-Fitzgerald mix of moralizing and mirror-looking (Jay McInerney shook and poured the shaker first) is very 80's--and in Tartt's strenuous version already seems dated, formulaic. Les Nerds du Mal--and about as deep (if not nearly as involving) as a TV movie. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Library Journal
This well-written first novel attempts to be several things: a psychological suspense thriller, a satire of collegiate mores and popular culture, and a philosophical bildungsroman. Supposedly brilliant students at a posh Vermont school (Bennington in thin disguise) are involved in two murders, one supposedly accidental and one deliberate. The book's many allusions, both literary and classical (the students are all classics majors studying with a professor described as both a genius and a deity) fail to provide the deeper resonance of such works as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose . Ultimately, it works best as a psychological thriller. Expect prepublication hype to generate interest in this book and buy accordingly. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/92.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I read this book the summer after it came out and it changed the way I look at contemporary literature. The characters are well-developed and you learn to know them as if they were your friends down the street. Eventually, as if you've known them for years. The descriptive details that Ms. Tart uses paints the scenes beautifully. She truly captures the feel of each season as the book unfolds. I have two copies of this book. I read it every winter and it reminds me that the contemporary literature isn't dead yet. Those who don't like this book, i'm going to guess, may lack the skills to comprehend the many references to popular culture and classical literature and art. For those of you clued in and intelligent, you'll wish you'd have found it years ago. A read you won't put down until it's finished, this book is for unpretentious, well-read intellectuals who think most books that are written today are simple formulas by people out of touch with the real world. The Secret History is written by a brilliant young writer for clued-in young readers, simply put. If you don't understand this novel, you probably weren't supposed to. And please, please Donna Tart: Those who read this book and feel it, are patiently awaiting your second novel.
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The Kirkus review is way off the mark, the usual drivel in search of profound statements. I don't know what he/she has been reading, but I will say, this is a story which reaches to the primal streak in all our souls. The story is fantastic. The detail is worthy of Michener but focused entirely around emotions and affairs of the mind of people, those elusive, rational yet clearly unpredictable qualities all of us are afraid of revealing or even thinking for fear we could get get comfortable with being the monsters we know humans are capable of. The story revolves around the fallacies of life, the follies of thinking, and the lines of so-called normality we all brush up against and fear we might cross. And this book lays out those fears, that indeed, in a different time and place, we are all capable of not only seeing the demons inside us most clearly but embracing them to act uncivilly in the most civilized manner. A great read, but be prepared to have a more than passing knowledge of Classical history. A good reference to the Classics will be helpful, for many of the references serve only to underscore the truly barbaric nature from hence we all sprang. On a different note, being from Vermont I was a tad dismayed with the apparent lack of knowledge of the area displayed by the author, which took away from the credibility of the story. Another failing on the part of the author and the editor(and contradiction) to clearly establish the time period. If it's the early to mid 60's (which is the right time frame for the feelings and practices) then there are at least three references which cause someone who pays attention to that consternation (I know, it's only a story!) I'll still give it 5 stars, and hope I never visit the depths of my mind as these characters do.
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The Secret History is a wonderful, literate book that I wish I had written. I didn't know that you could sell a novel that had Greek phrases in it, nor one that showed the pleasure of the life of the mind. I think the Kirkus reviewer completely missed the boat; he or she expects everything to be a start-in-mid-action, technothrilling, no-stopping for reverie bolt. This is an old-fashioned, langorous exploration of Richard Papen, who longs to be one of the elite Greek class clique, but when he does get adopted by these erudite, witty scholars, he discovers that they have held a bacchanal and have fallen prey to the Devil's dilemma (in other words, they tried this wild fantasy to see if a bacchanal could work, went into a frenzy, and killed a farmer in the frenzy--then were trying to keep another friend who had guessed their secret from revealing it.) I thought the story was wonderful, and I was jealous of his entree into the clique before it started to self-destruct. Henry is a gentle, kind, intellectual, amoral soul who has gone astray and lost his modern-man humanity, becoming like the cold Greeks with their pure logic and lack of remorse for certain acts. Richard doesn't lose his humanity, but does lose his illusions and his idealism when he realizes that his friends are only human, and perhaps a bit less than that, for all their brilliance. Richard is the moral compass of this story, but he fails in his destined mission to prevent the others from killing Bunny to keep their secet, and he sees Julian the idol has feet of clay. I guess I can't really tell you to get this book unless you are like me, a lone intellectual among a world of rednecks and people who make fun of readers and writers who would have loved to see this story turn out differently, who would have liked to hear that there is not just a thin line between genius and insanity. But there is, I suppose, and this book tells about how it might happen. Chantal Fox
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gute idee - mittelmaessige umsetzung
die idee hat mir von anfang an gefallen.
die ersten 100 seiten sind jedoch langatmig und ziehen sich ewig.
leider scheitert es an der umsetzung der idee. Lesen Sie weiter...
die ersten 100 seiten sind jedoch langatmig und ziehen sich ewig.
leider scheitert es an der umsetzung der idee. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Februar 2003 von "iwagner10"
Not Flawless, But Still Impressive
I have read "The Secret History" many times since its first publication in 1992, and, as an admitted literary snob who rarely makes forays outside of the 19th century,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. August 2000 veröffentlicht
How I know I'm not a novelist...
Donna Tartt just does an amazing job weaving together classical literature, folklore, and greek mythology, with a modern, coming of age tale sprinkled with just enough murder and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Graham Passey
ooooooohhhhhhh, aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
If you're reading the reviews here trying to decide whether you should read this book, let me just clear that up for you right now; you should. You absolutely should. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juni 2000 von Mink
Astonishing debut novel...
One of the best contemporary books I've read yet. Beautifully written language, yet also exists as the breathless kind of page-turner that is so popular these days. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juni 2000 von Brian D., Hodges
Have you wanted to be part of the in-crowd?
If so, then this book will speak to you. Donna Tartt creates a novel that at once seems so simple on the surface and yet is so steeped in psychology and Greek myth that you can... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2000 von Karen Bierman Hirsh
-Crime and Punishment- at a college in Vermont
Oh, come on! you may say. Maybe this is a good read, a good psychological thriller, maybe even "top-flight entertainment", but are you seriously going to compare Tartt's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von Peter A. Kimball
My Favorite...
Donna Tartt is unquestionably the best writer of my generation even though she came up with only one novel. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Too long waiting for a second
Definitely one of the best book I have ever read. Why have we not had a second title from this wonderful author. A must read again and again and again......
Am 27. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
don't waste your time going through the critics like I did
I've red this book a long time ago, and just out of curiosity I looked for the reader's critics. I shouldn't have. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2000 von a french reader
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