No clue.Talvolta certi libri hanno storie bizzarre alle spalle; anni e anni e anni fa, nella rubrica letteraria curata da D'Orrico in fondo al supplemento del giovedì del Corriere della Sera, lessi, distrattamente, senza prestarvi molta attenzione, una mini-recensione di un romanzo appena uscito, o appena tradotto in italiano. Only such a vision could have commanded into being the music-hall medievalism of St Thomas Aquinas. As Mantel makes clear before she begins the novel, Fludd is based on a sixteenth and seventeenth century alchemist, so the story must involve transformation. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.It is so refreshing having read some unfortunate dross this year to read a book and it is just so good, you want to read it again.
How's about a sequel to Fludd that focuses on Angwin, the bishop and Miss Dempsey rather than the unbearably dull Roisin O'Halloran? He is plagued by the Bishop who is modern and trying to bring One of Hilary Mantel’s early novels; this is quite an oddity and if you have a working knowledge of the Catholic Church, very funny. E infatti poco tempo dopo si presenta, nottetempo, il misterioso padre Fludd, e tutti coloro che entrano in contatto con lui (padre Angwin, la perpetua, la giovane suora del locale convento) finiscono per uscirne trasformati, o meglio per far emergere finalmente alla luce istanze di cambiamento che già covavano dentro di loro. Is he an angel, or is he, more pertinently, the devil. The characterisation is strong and even the minor players are well drawn with substance, and it is the very human frailty of the characters that make them likeable. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action. HUH? And I'll read more Mantel. It is set in northern England in the mid 1950s in a mill town on the edge of a bleak moor.
In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. I found the characters intensely annoying and the town they live in sounds petty and small-minded.I dunno. Father Angwin assumes Fludd is a priest sent by the bishop to help institute the new practices. What, then, does he transform? The first two thirds are fascinating and excellently done: a range of great if type-cast characters, including the witty, non-believing priest, the 'modernising' (read: self-serving) bishop, the downtrodden spinster housekeeper, the repulsive but somehow attractive proles, the awful senior nun. Anche se io personalmente non riesco quasi mai ad aiutare nessuno, mi diverte leggere questi messaggi per vedere che il mio è un "problema" comune anche ad altri, e mi commuove il legame che si forma fra noi e certi libri oscuri letti magari durante l'infanzia, tale che a distanza di così tanto tempo ancora non si smette di cercarli.Per tornare a noi, insomma, qualche mese fa un tentativo l'ho fatto anch'io, di illustrare l'abbozzo di trama che ricordavo e vedere se per qualcuno "si accendeva la lampadina" e la mia ricerca approdava finalmente a una meta. The awful Mother Superior is disfigured with a wart and then spontaneously combusts while intending great cruelty. Indeed, short, strange, tragicomic, and allegorical, Fludd could easily be dismissed as a curio, a relic from before Mantel's ascent to literary stardom. The theme of transformation is central to them, as it is in this book. Quite a surprise style variation from this authors later works. Or neither?
A waspish, witty but not entirely critical evocation of tired Catholic culture and one nun's release - via the enigmatic, alchemical Fludd - from her moribund state.
Who or what is Fludd? Once Fludd is in residence, people begin to ... transform. The father must contend with a garrulous bishop, who is under pressure to update traditional religious practice by converting to English-language liturgy and doing away with idolatrous statuary.
Hilary Mantel's work is addictive, and Fludd is yet another compulsive read. Religion and the public library, were for children. Meanwhile, in the nearby convent comely young Sister Philomena is bridling against the dictatorial regime of Mother Purpiture. This was a strangely unsatisfying novel.
Unlike many of her Literary fellows, Mantel never writes to show off. Here we have a Lancashire mill-town populated with Irish Catholic mill-workers who, according to their priest, would no more understand the Mass given in English than in Latin, locked in mutual misunderstanding and enmity with the heathens of the neighboring hamlet, a convent of miserable nuns condemned to daily sufferance of weak tea and soups made of vegetable peelings, and a rectory housing the priest who believes that the local tobacconist is the devil. This is quite a tricky little book; writing this review helped me understand it better, and to like it more, so I'm going up a star. This was a Book Club book (not my pick) and while it was perfectly readable, I didn't really get it. .
Here's a little quote to give you a taste:"'That's Appollonia. Some readers have commented on its subtle "gothic" tone, but that's hardly right; indeed, if the gothic is present at all in Fludd, it is there for Mantel to mock.
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