The Goldfinch

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-316-05543-7
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The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since The Little Friend in 2002.The Goldfinch centers on 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting The Goldfinch.

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Ein lautloses Puff

1 star

Mir lag nur die deutsche Übesetzung von Rainer Schmidt und Kristian Lutze vor. Schwer zu sagen also, auf wessen Mist Sätze wie dieser gewachsen sind: "Mit ihnen zu wohnen war, als teile ich mir eine Wohnung mit Leuten, mit denen ich mich nicht besonders gut verstand."

Das erinnert eher an den Deutschaufsatz eines Zwölfjährigen, der seine Seiten vollkriegen muss, als an Literatur. Was man in Der Distelfink zu lesen bekommt, ist jedenfalls "unfassbar wie ein schwarzer Tintenklecks über dem Horizont". Man liest von einem "lautlosen Puff", von Oberkörpern, die "lang gestreckt und schmal über der Taille herauf" ragen - "wie bei einem eleganten Wiesel" (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem gemeinen Wiesel), man liest vom "Licht von der Straße", das "in schwarzen Streifen über den Boden" weht, von "zerbrechlichen, zigeunerhaften Mädchen im Rollstuhl" und davon, wie "die schwarzen Ringe um die hellblaue Iris" den "Augen etwas leicht Wildes verleihen, wie …

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4 stars

The author's influences show, with explicit shoutouts to Dostoyevsky and to Proust in the last couple of chapters. It may just be me, but I also got a faint feeling I get when I read William Gibson, with the obsessive attention to the culture the characters are immersed in and a big climactic scene at the end that simply falls apart. Thematically the author covers similar ground to her other books by focusing on the ideas of good and evil, punishment and redemption, using a main character who is at heart an underdog even though he lives a high stakes lifestyle and winds up financially pretty well off. She lets the roguish character of Boris steal the show over and over, however, and even lets him protest how misunderstood he is. I wasn't put off by the length of the book having read some of those rambling 19th and 20th …

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