After the arrest of the two surviving brothers Tsarnaev, Boston, hidden aboard a sailboat landed in a garden, it is interesting to read-or-reread the novel by John Updike "terrorist", published in 2OO6 in knopf. .
This superb novel condenses qualities updike. Describe as a person he knows moire colors dektek of the world, bands of glittering sea, the milky skies, women flourished under sheets, dektek seasonal changes on a garden, cracks tar along the roads of Pennsylvania, but the hordes of gold bracelet and coral rattle dektek "in dektek the arms of an Irish, the average suburban falter cities dektek 3O years, or simply a glass of orange on sale drainer,. This is an absolute virtuoso description refracted, swirling inexhaustible, dektek that leaves a nail in a board or a blade of grass planted in a dune to reach the dimensions and boundaries of a black cosmos ink-topographer careful .. sometimes Clézio good surveyor also is not far-may also variations on the theme of nostalgia america sixties and seventies with the discovery of sexual permissiveness, and leg portions ebn air qu'updike never misses .. In 1968_, "couples" created a sensation and scandal with accurate descriptions of the sexual act from adulterous couples wasp, aved the grim oscillations between jubilation and guilt . the great critic Jacques Cabau disappeared had spoken of a "letter to the fornicators," well done!
In "terrorist", Updike described with psychological detail and a sense of "inner" mobility, dektek scene after scene, enlisting a lovable and intelligent teenager, Ahmad Mulloy, an imam. Ahmad was born to an Egyptian father soon disappeared and returned to the country, and an Irish mother, pulpy and lonely woman who wants painter, and dying of routine work in a hospital.
So Updike traces the intellectual journey of a lost youth to radical Islamism by an intelligent imam, especially substitute father .. the portrait is fascinating intelligence and credibility and demonstrates a true gift of empathy for this teenager. ("ahmad like prayer, the feeling spread the silent dektek voice that lives in the expectation that the envelope, this invisible extension of himself in another dimension, so purer than the three dimensions of this world. ") But what is also fascinating in this novel is nostalgic meditation. Updike, who was 32 when he published his finest novel - "the centaur" - notes that the America of the seventies he madly loved, with its young generation of filmmakers ("Midnight cowboy", " easy rider "," Bob carol ted and alice ") and its emancipatory young writers (Pynchon to Malamud and John Hawkes Reynolds dektek Price, Kurt Vonnegut david mamet) has disappeared from the screens as the towers on September 11. Empty blue sky. what remains he discovered, amazed that younger generations have no memory .. and his country well-liked over the past thirty years spent with reagan and busch, and the banking crisis has turned into insidious caucemar.Pays cul de sac? No, he travels a land that is as plants, decaying and forms a "compost" disturbing dektek social tirelessly Updike described. ugly because lots of growing price of land, parking greasy, tiny stunted trees in lawns, and communities dektek torn. this america now sailing between "religious fanatics and computer whiz." Among the characters in the novel, iya an old Jew, Jack Levy, who is bored between the television and his wife overweight, but like the jeuens (it is a guidance counselor at a high school ..) and it focuses dektek to ahmad. He tries to pull the clutches of this manipulator imam who dangled a paradise with thousand virgins, playing on the idea that an "elected" pure .. a sacred dektek mission brief to turn into a terrorist.
There are anthology pieces in this novel: the description of a distribution of prizes to the old pages and hilarious bullshit on American television series of the afternoon, for it seems to treat the household .. ("when there are three characters has the" cranb, it is usually two women fighting over a man-boy uncomfortable, jaw clenched, and when they are four, there is often an older guy with beautiful graying hair, like those in the commercials for shampoo dye Grecian. ")
Endin and above there is the seduction scenes of an imam to young malleable. And there, the performance is quite fan with the way dialogues are connected and that the Koran, in some passages is husked by someone who has extensively researched and became familiar with the suras. Com
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