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nerea87Ja, „Die Toten“ ist auch meine klare Lieblingsgeschichte. Vielleicht auch ein wenig wegen der tollen John Huston Verfilmung. Ich liebe diesen kühlen Ton in der Geschichte.
Allein für den Schlussabsatz gebe ich Bücherberge her:
… A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. (Quelle: James Joyce: The Dead).
nerea87Dabei ist mir übrigens neulich aufgefallen, das in dem Film „Intime Fremde“ von Patrice Leconte ein ähnlich kühler, distanzierter Ton angeschlagen wird, hat mich sehr an Joyce erinnert.
Kenne ich bislang nicht. Aber gestern habe ich erneut John Hustons Die Totenliste (The List of Adrian Messenger) gesehen. Gelungen (- auf eine andere Art).
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