Transcript Gerard Donovan Julius Winsome

Gerard Donovan
Julius Winsome
Title: Julius Winsome
Author: Gerard Donovan
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Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books
and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead.
Gerard Donovan weaves a tale that explores ideas of revenge and the threat of the wild, but
also a tender and heartbreaking paean to lost love.
Insightful reviews
Oscar: Julius Winsome es un ser solitario que ha permanecido toda su vida en el bosque, en
una cabaña llena de libros. Excepto por esporádicos trabajos de jardinería y la compra de
víveres, apenas sale de los límites de su territorio. Su única compañía toda su vida ha sido su
padre, que murió hace unos años, y que le enseñó el placer y el poder de la palabra escrita,
cómo disfrutar de un buen libro al amor de la lumbre en los días fríos del invierno. Durante los
últimos cuatro años, su verdadero y único amigo ha sido su perro Hobbes, regalo de un amor
fugaz. Pero un disparo suena en la noche. Han disparado a Hobbes...
Pensad por un momento en la vida que lleva este hombre, cuya única compañía es la de su
perro, el único ser que le ha mostrado un amor y una lealtad incondicionales. Esto es esencial
para entender la personalidad de Julius, o al menos intentarlo.
'El inventor de palabras' (a Tusquets parece que no le convencía el título original, 'Julius
Winsome') es una novela hermosa en muchas ocasiones, pero también atroz en otras.
Donovan no ha querido dibujarnos a Julius como el típico pobre hombre solitario digno de
lástima, porque algunos de los actos que lleva a cabo también te hacen odiarlo. Julius es una
personaje complejo y raro.
Lo que más me ha gustado de la novela han sido los recuerdos que Julius tiene de su padre,
de cómo le enseñó a amar la letra escrita, de sus hitorias sobre la guerra, de cómo califica su
biblioteca en libros fríos y calientes. 'El inventor de palabras' no llega al nivel de 'El telescopio
de Schopenhauer', una de las mejores novelas de los últimos años, pero se lee bien y con
interés.
Kkneen: I keep coming back to this book. It is one of the few books I re-read on a regular basis.
If I could write a book as good as this I would die happy.
Prowisorio: Stel je voor, je woont in het noorden van Maine, in de bossen, in een blokhut
omringd door 3282 boeken en in het gezelschap van Hobbes. Hobbes is een pit bull terrir,
die je als jong dier uit een asiel hebt gehaald, in het gezelschap van de enige vrouw die een
tijdlang in je nabijheid heeft vertoefd. Je moeder is bij je geboorte overleden en de enige
mensen met wie je in de blokhut hebt geleefd, zijn je grootvader en je vader. Beiden liefhebbers
van boeken, beiden getekend door ervaringen in diverse oorlogen. Je vader heeft je alle
woorden die Shakespeare heeft uitgevonden, geleerd. Beiden zijn gestorven in de New
England stoel.. een heerlijke leesstoel, waar je nu zelf regelmatig in zit.. met een boek,
natuurlijk.
De vrouw, waarmee je Hobbes hebt opgehaald uit het asiel, heeft voor een ander gekozen en
sindsdien ben jij Hobbes' en hij jouw enige gezelschap. De blokhut en de directe omgeving zijn
niet alleen een oase van rust voor jou en Hobbes, maar ook voor allerlei andere dieren. De
jagers blijven over het algemeen uit de buurt, maar het schieten hoor je wel zodra het
jachtseizoen weer begint.
Het is eind oktober, je zit te lezen bij het houtvuur, Hobbes is buiten en je denkt dat je een schot
hoort... dat is dichtbij, denk je nog. Je besluit om Hobbes maar eens binnen te roepen, maar
Hobbes komt niet. Tien minuten later, roep je hem nogmaals, maar weer komt Hobbes niet
opdagen. Dan doe je iets wat je zelden doet, zeker 's winters... je kijkt hoe laat het is. Het is vier
minuten over drie....
Julius vindt Hobbes enige tijd later, dodelijk gewond geraakt door een kogel. Tevergeefs brengt
hij Hobbes nog naar een dierenarts, maar die kan Hobbes niet meer redden. Hij kan alleen nog
constateren dat Hobbes van zeer dichtbij is neergeschoten. Julius begraaft Hobbes in het
bloembed bij de blokhut en besluit te achterhalen wie verantwoordelijk is voor de dood van
Hobbes.
Julius Winsome is een schitterend geschreven verhaal over liefde, eenzaamheid en de
verstrekkende gevolgen van geweld zoals gebruikt in oorlogen, maar ook in de jacht op andere
dieren. Geweld niet alleen met behulp van geweren, maar ook geweld van woorden. Woorden,
ook niet uitgesproken woorden, kunnen dodelijk zijn.
"The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in
them long before they leave. In Claire it started with long glances and silence and arrived fully
only after she was gone. "
Tony: there's something improper with Julius Winsome. yet we’re unsure what. At least, we’re
unsure what made him what he is. that's a loner, first of all; a guy remoted within the Maine
woods. He lives in a cabin together with his puppy Hobbes. His father, who used to be
‘damaged’ within the moment international battle as his personal father was once within the
First, had covered that cabin with 3,282 books. and there's his grandfather’s Enfield rifle,
finishing his legacy.And then anyone shoots Hobbes. quite a bit for the Social Contract.Armed
with the Enfield and meticulously accrued phrases from Shakespeare, Winsome wanders the
close to woods to hunt one of those justice. Which, i may have advised him, is usually a less
than perfect thing.Yes, there's something incorrect with Julius Winsome; yet we’re uncertain
what. the fireside within the cabin spreads warmth, yet basically so far. So there are hot books
and there are chilly books. i'll have advised him that too. He misses Hobbes, yet he misses
Claire too. She acquired misplaced within the woods a few years again while a courting
fluttered, and he or she came upon Winsome. Ah, the magic of heat from one other person. She
remains some. it really is Claire that implies a dog. yet her courting fluttered again, and she or
he used to be gone. I must have identified that folks can occasionally come shut adequate to
find that they're strangers. After Hobbes’ demise, Winsome wonders if Claire’s visual appeal
and disappearance was once now not so random. He varieties the proof of duplicity, while he
dispatches demons. just like the books within the cabin, Winsome is able to nice heat but
additionally chilly revenge.Perhaps issues don’t take place for a reason, they ensue simply
because humans do them.So there's something mistaken with Julius Winsome. His inherited
wars. Love, given after which taken away. Books, either hot and cold. the arrival of one other
Maine Winter. The wintry weather is fifty books lengthy and fixes you to silence like a pinned
insect; your sentences fold themselves into unmarried words, the hand of twelve makes one
hand of time. each look results in snow. each footstep sinks North. That’s time in Maine, the
white of time.Finally, perhaps, he has discovered the guy who killed Hobbes. is that this what
this is often all about, a dog? the fellow asks. yet we already understand otherwise. A dog’s
bark sounds so like a German soldier’s shouts. Or the language Shakespeare invented. Time
makes canine of us.So Winsome increases the Enfield but again, and orders the fellow to walk.
What i needed to claim to that guy as he walked sooner than me within the woods was once
that I didn’t have feeling the place I may still and an excessive amount of the place I shouldn’t.
you retain clear of males like me and you’ll be o.k. in life.
Katharina: Like pretty well ever different evaluation for this ebook says, this is often awfully
tough to rate. i will not say it was once precisely "fun" to read, yet it is so compelling, it
thoroughly attracts you in. And the language is gorgeous. i believe you are going to both click
on with this publication and fully fall into it otherwise you will not and you may prove hating it.
Mary-Ellen Lynn: whilst your favorite writer calls a e-book ‘a memorable tale, exceptional by
means of masterful prose [and] an intriguingly atypical sensibility’, you are taking note; specially
while that writer is Michel Faber. now not considering that Faber’s ebook of wierd New issues
have i discovered myself solely drawn right into a novel. In Julius Winsome, Gerard Donovan
presents the reader a story so compelling that you really want to take it slow over each
fantastically crafted sentence. Set within the intimate wintry panorama of Maine, Winsome lives
on my own in a log cabin, apart from his dog, Hobbes. he's an easy guy yet a voracious reader:
the partitions of his cabin are coated with 3282 vintage books, inherited from his father, which
insulate him either actually and metaphorically. He lives a nearly airtight lifestyles – “many
males reside in those woods who can't stay wherever else” – missing in human interplay until,
one day, a girl seems to be on the cabin, interrupting his loneliness and the grief he nonetheless
feels from wasting his father. Claire turns into his lover for a number of months prior to
disappearing, leaving him for a policeman referred to as Troy. Then a hunter ruthlessly kills
Hobbes – doubtless for kicks. it is a tipping aspect for Winsome. The reader has no selection
yet to watch, in surprise and fascination, as Winsome is going on a capturing spree (with his
grandfather’s rifle) of revenge, murdering deer hunters with calm precision and skill, all of the
whereas delivering astute meditations on battle and violence. it is a poetic masterpiece, written
in prose so evocative of the panorama during which it really is set, let alone plagued by
Shakespearean archaisms. it's a novel of contrasts; bleak yet beautiful, gradual yet
suspenseful. we're drawn into the insanity of a protagonist that we either comprehend and do
not. this can be a haunting ebook that are meant to develop into a contemporary classic.
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