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- Title: Şoimul rătăcitor
- Author: Glenway Wescott Dana Covăceanu
- ISBN: 9781602571952
- Page: 186
- Format: Paperback
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The Cullens, a boorish, wealthy Irish couple, pay a visit to their friend Alexandra Henry, an American heiress living in France Rather than bringing a bottle of grocery store wine or a modest floral arrangement, Mrs Cullen brings her pet hawk Lucy the hooded, undomesticated, pigeon eating symbol of the book Fortunately enough, Alexandra has another guest staying with her named Alwyn Tower that s a man, not an office complex to do the play by play on all the character psychology, so if the blinki [...]
After finishing The Pilgrim Hawk I couldn t help but feel as if this sparkling novel la was structured like an iceberg, its crystalline prose and the sharp lines of its prosody creating shimmery effects somewhat akin to a diamond refracting sunlight It s all very impressive or at least impressive enough in and of itself But an icebergs placidly floating across a tranquil bodies of water masks a larger reality only about 1 10 of the iceberg is ever actually visible The mass and bulk lurks far ben [...]
This could be an afternoon read, this story of an afternoon in Chancellet, told in the early 40 s, but set in May of 1928 or 1929 Chancellet must be a painful place in the forties, although one of the least changed in France, I suppose, because it is unimportant.That is a remarkable, sublime sentence, occurring early in this book For if this little, out of the way place is unimportant now, it was surely unimportant then And if painful now, then it would be painful then too.No Frenchman is a char [...]
Michael Cunningham, in his introduction to the New York Review of Books edition of Glenway Westcott s novel, makes some big claims To my mind, The Pilgrim Hawk stands unembarrassed beside Ford Madox Ford s The Good Soldier, F Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby, and Henry James s The Aspern Papers Each shares the conviction that, as far as human affairs are concerned, it may be better to live hugely and tragically, even in the service of some grand, ardent mistake, than submit to the seductions [...]
A very strange socially elegant short novel that deals with a hawk that sort of observes the world or at the very least this particular world It sort of reminds me of going to a dinner party and not really knowing anyone yet you stay too long The novel had that affect on me, yet I am going to re read it shortly Why My first reading some years ago made me think this is really good, why So there is an essence of a mystery of it all that pleases my sense of aesthetic.
Life is almost all perch, observes the author, there is no nest No one is with you So there you sit, he continues, and dream and doze to save trouble The metaphor here is a house pet a hawk named Lucy I am not persuaded.
If I felt free to make new bookshelves all the time and not afraid of being overwhelmed by a superfluity of them I would make one just for this book called Love and Trouble Not that that couldn t be the title of everything.I read this book a while back, assigned reading in a class I was taking, and I appreciated it a lot While some people complain that Wescott tries to knock readers over the head with some cave man mallet of symbolism, I felt very differently about it I am in awe of of the kinds [...]
Brief, elegant, edgy, and profound, I found myself enraptured by this little gem I was quickly taken in by the narrator s voice, and while not much happens, there is an incredible tension in all this not happening A masterpiece of restrained narration.
A concisely written novel that takes place during an afternoon There are only a handful of characters featured, and of course the hawk who is a pivotal character in it s own right Most of the interplay between the characters involves Lucy the Pilgrim Hawk.I have to say that the book novella isn t what I quite expected but that does often happen with the New York Classic books I ve read to date It s an unusual story I couldn t say with any conviction that I could empathise with the characters as [...]
As a Minnesotan, I was startled to learn that Glenway Wescott is from my neighboring state of Wisconsin so, too, is his narrator, who seems to have stayed in Europe since serving in World War I Startled, because The Pilgrim Hawk A Love Story 1940 is very European in structure and sentiment It s a novella about one afternoon in a garden and home in France The narrator is a keen observer and hyper self aware, self critical thinker, spending the day with his female friend Alex They have guests a ri [...]
A strange, beautifully written novella about an aristocratic Irish couple, the wife s completely engrossing hawk, and two rich expatriate Americans, chewing the fat in a French villa one afternoon as servants prepare them a dinner of pigeons with white currants Sentences like We could hear their hunting horns which sounded like a picnic of boy sopranos, lost had me thinking five stars right away The entire novella didn t live up to that level, but how often do you see the phrase avian haberdashe [...]
I didn t really like the Cullens coming back Why did they have to come back It had been a tight little play, and then everything was hysterical and silly We could hear their hunting horns which sounded like a picnic of boy sopranos, lost How rare pulchritude is among the Irish, I said to myself Er He was a large man, not really fat but with bulk and softness irregularly here and there, not so much in the middle as up and down his back, all around his head, in his hands A little narrow frown, an [...]
Their enthusiasm about themselves and all that exactly appertained to them, always overflowing, coolly playing and bubbling over in mild agitation like a fountain, held your attention and mirrored itself in your mind little by little you began to bubble with it.Maybe because this comes close to my favorite kind of writing, maybe because it is austere, restrained, beautiful even I have to hold it to a standard where it fails What author Wescott is after here is a distillation of the atmosphere of [...]
A novella of penetrating psychological insight The story unfolds amid the expatriate community living in France in the naively optimistic years between the two World Wars WWI s aftermath and WWII s incipience affect the characters lives in a fashion that is scarcely perceptible and yet not insignificant, reminding me of how in the classic Japanese film The Makioka Sisters another work of art about the private lives of a declining aristocracy in the 1940s the imminence of WWII is barely mentioned [...]
Very nicely done, the sort of thing that ll appeal to people involved in crafting something, while also causing them we to feel a little ripped off As even the introduction points out, making a hawk into a symbol isn t much of a novelty, nor is the Anglos abroad Wescott does make me want to read Henry James, which is a mark in his favor , nor is the ever so slightly farcical country house plot So, to justify my own enjoyment of this, I m forced to interpret the book thusly the hawk is not, in fa [...]
Certainly among the better literary works featuring a family named Cullen This is a decent, wise, and quotable short novel, but by the praise that I ve read from it I expected something revelatory, or subtly potent, or importantly memorable It is worthy of praise but in a much restrained way than that which pulled me into reading it.
the acquaintances of her girlhood had been outdoor people like these two, self centered but without any introspection, strenuous but emotionally idle It was a type of humanity that she no longer quite respected or trusted, but evidently still enjoyed VANLIFE AMIRITE That was written in 1940, and like everything else in The Pilgrim Hawk it is dead on the money Until I encountered those two sentences it had never even occurred to me that our present day fetish for frivolous bullshit had any preced [...]
Het echtpaar Cullen komt op bezoek Blijft erg lang En mevrouw heeft een valk meegebracht.
I love this novella and you should read it.Lately I ve been studying the literary impressionism of the great early Moderns Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Pilgrim Hawk, first published in 1940, seems to me a small, late impressionist masterpiece much in the mold of The Good Soldier Wescott was, in fact, one of a group of American writers in Ford s circle during the Transatlantic Review days, and so perhaps it is not surprising that he deploys what I consider to be the ur impressi [...]
Really, really, weirdly written and kind of BAD, in an Elizabeth Gaskellish way all exposition with an overarching metaphor about as subtly wielded as a tire iron But all the fascinating, for it Also a very curiously proleptic 1928 take on alcoholism actually uses that word, which must have been a neologism at the time and codependency I can t quite shake this story Will post some passages from it tomorrow I think it s kind of amazing, actually.
A short 100 page novella that approaches perfection It will linger in your mind long after you finish it.
Wonderful little book so good I think I ll read the editors introduction
A quick, intricately constructed novel that unwinds like clockwork Using a hawk as a kind of central metaphor and narrative binding agent, Glenway Wescott What a name Where have you gone, Glenway Wescotts , sharply observes the unraveling relationships of eight creatures over the course of an afternoon The narrator is visiting his friend or possibly love interest Alexandra at her house in Paris They are in turn visited by Alex s Irish British friends the Cullens who also bring along Mrs Cullen s [...]
Wisconsin born French resident Glenway Wescott 1901 87 wrote only four novels, with The Pilgrim Hawk 1940 the best known Championed by Susan Sontag, republished in the New York Review of Books large catalog of rediscoveries, it s been promoted as a lost classic so persistently that its lost status can be safely abandoned Through the good will of its champions, it s entered the mainstream if not the canon.It s well deserved The Pilgrim Hawk reads like a grounded, American version of Evelyn Waugh [...]
In Wisconsin Writers and Writing August Derleth said that Wescott s The Pilgrim Hawk had in it nothing at all of the warmth of his Wisconsin books in fact, the book was repellent The prose style which had so distinguished his earlier books was still there, refined, if anything, into a artistic vehicle but somehow in the process, the humanity had been refined right out of it The novelette is filled with characters about whom the reader doesn t find it possible to care the only character in the b [...]
An intense little gem hand grenade of a novella in which nothing and everything happens in the course of an afternoon and the only real 2 events of the afternoon happen either hidden from most characters or from the reader Brilliant even in the parts where it s somehow touchingly clumsy, like Wescott was breathless and fumbling with excitement to cram all this brilliance in That s one review I want to write The other one goes, what s the big deal Really, the hawk as a symbol of the freedom capti [...]
Michael Cunningham wrote such a glowing introduction that I assumed I would love this book, as I have loved most books published by NYRB More novella than novel, I thought I would finish The Pilgrim Hawk in no time, but I found myself dragging throught it The writing is pared down to its essence which made Wescott s most exquisite and pointed lines stand out as in, Life is perch, when comparing humans to the falcon which spends time staring down at the world searching for food than it does soa [...]
That the novel occurs over such a short period it s a wonder that Wescott has managed to stretch it out to just over one hundred pages, but the voice he gives to Tower ensures a lazy, measured tone, never hurrying past a scene and recounting it in all its beauty at times philosophical but always, like a hawk, observant Read my full review here.
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A Ford Madox Ford type of story, but with the poignancy and intensity of Yeats poetry say, Adam s Curse or Among the School Children.