Study for Obedience: A novel
祖先の地に移り住んだ若い女性が、兄の家での仕事を引き受けたことをきっかけに、よそ者への不信と説明のつかない出来事に囲まれていく寓意的な長編。服従、排除、権力の偏りを、抑制された文体と不穏な空気で描く実験性の高い作品。
作品情報
静かに崩れていく日常のただ中で、よそ者であることの重さがじわじわと迫る。
祖先の地で兄の家事を担うことになった若い女性が、共同体の視線と説明不能な出来事に追い詰められていく物語。家族の責任、排除される感覚、権力のねじれが、簡潔で鋭い筆致によって不穏な寓話へと収束していく。
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抑えた語り口と不気味な設定に魅力を感じる読者がいる一方で、文体の密度や主題の見えにくさに戸惑う声もある。読後感は鋭いが、親しみやすさよりも解釈の難しさが前面に出るという反応が目立つ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Vintage Canada
- 発売日
- 2024-08-27
- ページ数
- 208ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.21 x 1.35 x 20.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781039009080
- ISBN-10
- 1039009085
- 価格
- 2731 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Thrillers/Psychological & Suspense
WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.' And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing. With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
SARAH BERNSTEIN is from Montreal, Canada, and lives in Scotland. Her writing has appeared in Granta among other publications. Her first novel, The Coming Bad Days , was published in 2021. In 2023 she was named as one of Granta ’s Best of Young British Novelists.
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A me non di madre lingua inglese non piace il suo stile di scrittura. Ma forse il mio giudizio non vale. È una storia angosciosa, tristissima. La protagonista, inafferrabile e incoerente nella descrizione, è irritante, insopportabile. Fa stare male anche fisicamente!
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There is no doubt that the book is well written but you can never really identify and know the character in the story. Throughout the whole story you do not know where the story is in the world, or where she came from other than she is a foreigner somewhere and is have a hard time trying to integrate and her brother is ill but that is all. There is a distinctive lack of emotion in her thoughts as though she is an observer rather than being personally involved and nothing has much context. I personally found it a bit of unsatifying read and had no insight into the story reflecting on it afterwards.
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Enjoyed book
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So, what was this about? Oh!! I am supposed to tell you that after reading the book. But quite frankly I don't have a clue...it can mean so many things. There is reference to Jewishness & possible undertones of pre-ordained persecution..what else?
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Out of 35 members only two of us finished it. Only time this has happened in 10 years. It just drones on and on.
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