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Andrei Makine: A Hero's Daughter
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10-07-2009, 05:55 PM
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I think i like clich? then,and i certainly loved Life's music.
Most of his book are based one the same line,and if you look for hard realisme(no napsack with bread and milk,things like that never happen!)i don't think you will find the Masterpiece you expect in the rest of his work.
He often play with exageration and exageration in the images he use for the dramatisation of his tales,call it cliche or caricature if you look for ridicule,i don't mind.I often find life carictural and some of what i witnessed, i would i called clich? before it happened to me.
Requiem for the east,my favorite, is stuffed full of them,and,along with his prose,it is what i loved in it.
I demand clich?,i need the unbelivable in books or life,and if it is well written it give you the joy for a moment to believe in it.And that is for me one of the great gift and pleasure of literature.
And to be honest to reproche a guy writing about Siberia to much "snow-laden scenes" is quite fair.
You might find a bucketload of clich? in Tolstoi War and peace,if you look for it.One can ridicule anything if he put his mind to it.
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