Ágota Kristóf
Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 4.4 | 8972 Users | 947 Reviews
Present Of Books The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
| Title | : | The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3) |
| Author | : | Ágota Kristóf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | June 23rd 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. War. Cultural. Hungary. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Contemporary |
Narrative During Books The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided "brothers" in much of Europe since World War II. Kristof's postmodern saga begins with The Notebook, in which the brothers are children, lost in a country torn apart by conflict, who must learn every trick of evil and cruelty merely to survive. In The Proof, Lucas is challenging to prove his own identity and the existence of his missing brother, a defector to the "other side." The Third Lie, which closes the trilogy, is a biting parable of Eastern and Western Europe today and a deep exploration into the nature of identity, storytelling, and the truths and untruths that lie at the heart of them all. "Stark and haunting." - The San Francisco Chronicle; "A vision of considerable depth and complexity, a powerful portrait of the nobility and perversity of the human heart." - The Christian Science Monitor.Mention Books In Favor Of The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
| Original Title: | Le Grand Cahier - La Preuve - Le Troisième Mensonge |
| ISBN: | 0802135064 (ISBN13: 9780802135063) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3 |
| Literary Awards: | Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2007) |
Rating Of Books The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
Ratings: 4.4 From 8972 Users | 947 ReviewsJudge Of Books The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
I'm still thinking about this book days after I finished it. It reminds me of The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas) for that reason and the fact of its various parts, the contradictions they offer, and the fact that one doesn't ultimately know what actually happened. The plot of course is fairly simply (two brothers raised in the countryside during the war). Or was one raised in the city? Who left, who came back, which acts of violence and betrayal actually took place? Clearly there is allegory here,Contains spoilers By the time I had finished this trilogy of novels I had no idea what had happened. I though of Escher's famous drawing in which one hand draws another hand drawing the other hand. Except to properly represent the procedure Agota Kristof adopts in these short novels one of the hands should contain an eraser and be in the process of eliminating the hand that is drawing it.In the fractured society she creates; in the dislocated time in which these characters have to live and in
Where to begin? There is no entry point. Maybe, like history, it will become apparent only with time and distance.The more I think about the three books together, the more knotted I become.Perhaps I should stop thinking about it as a puzzle.The Notebook is powerful, disturbing, startling. It is a gripping read, an adult fairy tale. One marvels and squirms at the relentless cruel logic of these twin children. It wasnt originally written as a trilogy. The Notebook was a stand-alone book, but after
Exercise in Leaving Things OutWhatever you do, do not tell the whole story. Leave out entire scenes, only to be hinted at later in a thrown off line. Leave out the feelings. Especially love, don't mention love at all. Describe the cruelties but do not say why they were performed. Tell the story, but leave almost everything out so that it can grow wild like an untended garden in the reader's mind. Exercise in Shifting PerspectivesTell the story together, conjoined as one. Then tell the story
I would have rated this higher had not I fallen out of love with sadists a while ago. The vengeful hero, the vigilante serial killer, the commander, the mastermind, the Manhattan Project brain who believed wiping out whole sections of certain hemispheres would bring about world peace. All white, all male, all done to death. Forgive me my lack of impressed engagement upon encountering the latest prototype of trangressive film; for all their displayed atrocities, they refuse to show a woman's body
Toughening exercises....resistance....a composition.War.....mortal solitude.....a compositionLove....objectivity.....a composition.Truth.....lies....a composition.Words.....immortality.....a composition.The sharpened graphite moves silently in the dark attic on naive white paper sheets, reciting nightmarish trepidation. Every thought, every word emitting a chaotic soul finds refuge in the scribbling of the graphite. Amid the sirens of an air raid, it moves zealously. New pages are explored as
I hate this book! The first chapter is very effective in shocking the reader but then it turns out in subsequent chapters that the two children are really nasty little robots. It is not clear how they became like this (trauma?) and their behaviour is therefore not very convincing. At one time they speak in full, complicated sentences as only grown ups do, then they talk like kids again in short, simple statements. Their behaviour is equally erratic. I guess one should read the story as a kind of
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