When I read a book I always wondering about what speech, what the author wants to tell you with your story. In I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson the item as soon skips canvas background is the isolation. It seems that some people have a special incapacity for not moving his true feelings to others. This is the case of the protagonist of this work: Arvid, a cuarenteañero communist, who is suffering from depression, hurt by their inevitable divorce and its dour Danish mother, a woman of few words, suffering from cancer. The novel takes place in a short time and space: during the brief match / mismatch of mother and child in the summer house of the family in Denmark. On the whole novel plan to the specter of isolation, misunderstanding and pain. the fine structure on which works the novelist brings lightness and beauty to the narrative. The timing of Arvid waiver giving the speech he has prepared to celebrate the birthday of his mother, I was especially touching. And it shows that good literature does not need big fuss to break the retaining wall of the reader. A simple story, good characters, well built and a structure designed to support the structure of narrative.
The author's purpose is very important in a book, but that does not match the will give the reader of the work, of course.
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