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Title: The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos ISBN: 0-452-25820-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (P) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love, freedom and politics: loaded book!
Comment: Augustin Gomez Arcos makes several political statements on the appearance of a love story.
At first, everything looks wrong: incestuous love, uncaring parents...
Then the colors appear: red - yellow - red...
Yellow is the color of the church and the military 'dictatura'
Red is the one for Revolution, with defeated freedom dreams.
Augustin plays his colors with a very fine hand. Self-exhiled from Spain, he writes in French as a first statement against Franco. The love story will move you, but still the surface of it may repel the puritan in you. And those two colours will haunt you until you finish this book... But you have to restrain yourself... if you still want some for tomorrow...
My only complain is the translation: the original text is so beautiful and yet it's been translated into slang... Hum, if you understand two words of french, that would be a good twisted training book- and it's not 'out of print' over there!
Rating: 5
Summary: Food for starving hearts...
Comment: I read the french original and do not know the translation. Is was given to me by a dear friend, years ago, and was one of the best readings I ever had. I read it so many times I came to know bits by heart.
It is a beautiful love story, even if not a conventional one. It is also a story about freedom, and if you never lived without it, it may help you to understand a bit how it feels. But it is, above all, a great story to teach you that love is always love, always pure, always fine, always noble, always dignifying, always beautiful, and it always involves touching both body and soul of the one you love.
Do read it, it may change the way you look at things. And it will make you dream, that's for sure! It may even get you hunting for that particular brand of soap - but I think it can only be found in Spain (and Portugal too).
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing Translation
Comment: This book is a masterpiece written in beautiful French by a Spanish exile. Unfortunately, however, the English translation loses the purity and clarity of the original. It's time a new translation was published so that a larger English-speaking readership can get to know this touching, poignant and deeply metaphorical love story.
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Title:Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection ASIN: B00014NE62 Publisher: Public Media Inc Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.46 |
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