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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnkılap Kitabevi
We know Abraham Verghese is a surgeon not only through the visceral operations illustrated in the work, but because he can traverse tragedy without getting diverted into sentimental babble. While I commend his restraint on the personal and emotional front, I wonder if perhaps this novel would benefit from a more precise historical time frame rather than the vast canvas in which we follow the conception and delivery of Marion-Shive through their calamitous adolescence to the narrator's departure from Ethiopia. Part historical novel/allegory, but also a very personal story that might have been better served if we had gotten to know the narrator and his twin brother a little more as kids - it seems Marion might have skipped a few steps before he became a surgeon.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
thank god for franz wright.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi
Great read and history!to think that this can happen again if leaders are not carefull with decision regarding a nation
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yakamoz Yayınevi
This, alongside American Gods, should become a classic over the years, not just of their genre (I have never been one for trying to put books into pigeon holes) but just as exquisite writing. The idea of a personality divided in place and time has been used in other books (cf Pratchett, The Thief of Time), but not to create such a depth of story telling. Gaiman mixes myth and fantasy with such precision that it is difficult to know where one ends and the other begins. The characters are fascinating and appear to develope spontaneously through the story. The plot twists and turns, rapid as a boxer, and even the end is unpredicted.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ayrıntı Yayınları
The book was gifted to me on the day of my graduation by my professor after Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism was central to my senior thesis. Its probably an appropriate stepping stone from my studies as an undergraduate and my possible future as a graduate student. The finishing of the book is the culmination of a year and a half of inconsistent reading and a broadened perspective. It is my academic introduction to historical materialism, which I've only seen previously from afar. Its central theme: that postmodernism, with its fragmentary and ephemeral tendencies, arises as a necessary extension of capitalism and has far reaching affects into cultural aesthetics and our collective experiences in space and time. A few other new (to me) themes are: -The time period preceding following WWII until the early 1970s represented by the Fordist (Keynesian) production model which is paralleled by the cultural movement of modernism. Significant economic descriptors of this period are the acquiescence of capital to labor as the consumer of excess goods. Culturally, it adhered to a post-Enlightenment view that truth and universality are the goal of human aesthetics and expression. Architectural representations were monolithic expressions of state power and functionalism. -This Fordist model was followed, as a result of the economic crises in the 1970s, by a period characterized by Harvey as 'flexible accumulation'. Globalization (although not termed as such in the book) allowed for--and leads to--the need for capital to move more freely in space and time to meet the needs of profit. Harvey writes, "For the labourers this all implied an intensification (speed-up) in labour processes and an acceleration in the de-skilling and re-skilling required to meet new labour needs." The experience of labor in this world of flexible accumulation and time-space compression became the foundation for the postmodern condition. This condition is characterized by accelerating turnover in production and exchange, mobilization of fashion to the masses as a means of accelerated consumption, a lifestyle of disposal (values, relationships, attachments, and identities), and the manipulation of desires and tastes towards consumption in markets described best by volatility, to name a few. -Postmodernism offers many different opportunities to the human experience. Its reaction against the universality of modernism espouses multiple perspectives and insight. There is no singular human experience. And while the rhetoric of postmodernism may sound enticing, the same principles of domination still exist. Those who have practical control over space and the representation of time (lords and nobles of centuries before, capitalists and their government representatives today) have significant power over those who seek a voice in the global society. "Small differences in what the space contains in the way of labour supplies, resources, infrastructures, and the like become of increased significance. Superiour command over space becomes an even more important weapon in class struggle." -At the heart of the condition of postmodernity as presented by Harvey is the tendency towards schizophrenia. Harvey uses the quote of a literary critic (Terry Eagleton) as a possible definition of postmodernism: "There is, perhaps, a degree of consensus that the typical postmodernist artefact is playful, self-ironizing and even schizoid; and that it reacts to the austere autonomy of high modernism by impudently embracing the language of commerce and the commodity. Its stance towards cultural tradition is one of irreverent pastiche, and its contrived depthlessness undermines all metaphysical solemnities, sometimes by a brutal aesthetics of squalor and shock." The schizophrenic nature of postmodernism is a consistent theme presented by Harvey. My previously held understanding of historical materialism was simplistic and uninformed. If anything, my reading of Harvey has taken a giant step forward in developing an understanding, but I know further reading is required. I found Harvey's Marxist-informed insights into capitalism especially enlightening; especially his writing on capitalist crises of accumulation. Having read the book I have a new interest in urban studies and planning (how space is utilized by capital to exhibit control of the labor population), a peaked interest in how capital exhibits control over the experience of time through retirement plans and ability to retire, and a further deepening interest in the social implications of the human experience in capitalism (i.e.-Marxism).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar
Blech. I stuck it out until the end, but not my cup of tea by any means. But don't take my word for it; I'm no literary expert.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
Love the Author, his writing is very "melodic".
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi
good book
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyan Yayınları
To Kill A Mocking Bird is one of my most favorite stories! The glimse i got into a society, and most importantly a family is important to us today. It shows that it is the big acts as well as the small acts of heroism are each equally important.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
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