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ON BEAUTY


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  • Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.
    Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?
    Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.

    Idioma: INGLÉS

  • Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

    Idioma: SIN DEFINIR

  • On Beauty was not an easy book to 'get into'. It only really grabbed me beyond midbook, but it tickled my curiosity nonetheless. Although the story itself left me with a not-so-pleasant aftertaste, I have to praise Zadie Smith's talent as it shone through the pages, the incidents and the characters. It was long, at times it left me wondering why there was so much extra information that was not so essential to the story, but I reached the conclusion that this is Zadie Smith's style, she narrates as if she is watching the scenes unfold, and she gives utmost importance to the psyche of her characters. On beauty is a book about families, ideologies, race, social classes, adulthood, marriage, loneliness, betrayal, the American dream... to be able to put all of these parameters in a cohesive story is worthy of a prize indeed! The characters flow through the story and we glimpse their interactions, the chemistry, the author never revealling her personal preferences but rather, letting the arguments debate among themselves. We glimpse a 30-year old iter-racial marriage scarred with betrayal, a fight to the end between liberalism and conservatism. The paradox of children wanting to pursue their vocation irrespective of their parents' beliefs, the clash between a comfortable middle-class family and those 'on the street'. It's an ocean of pivotal arguments brought to us in a narrative fashion. We witness the pros, the cons, the trivial, the essential, all intertwined, all very very insightful.

    Idioma: INGLÉS

 
 

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