tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5720918457586275082..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Living again and again: Kate Atkinson and Jenny ErpenbeckYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-22386838943628745082015-03-07T22:17:18.625+02:002015-03-07T22:17:18.625+02:00Hi Fabian,
To be honest, I regarded the penultima...Hi Fabian,<br /><br />To be honest, I regarded the penultimate chapter as the end: when she reunites Nancy and Teddy, and Teddy pretty obviously knows she has done so.<br /><br />The final chapter? It could be anything, couldn't it? The explanations you offer are as good as any others. Or perhaps she's simply opening it up for each of us to continue the story as we wish.<br /><br />Then there's another possibility. If Haddock never made it, perhaps she was never born alive at all, and the whole tale never happened... because it's literature, after all, not history.<br /><br />But as I said, I regard the pub scene in 1945 as the end of the tale. she's still yound enough then to have a reasonable rest-of-her-life.Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-91406810709216684302015-02-18T11:54:09.717+02:002015-02-18T11:54:09.717+02:00I finished Life after Life.
SPOILER ALERT
What d...I finished Life after Life.<br /><br />SPOILER ALERT<br /><br />What did you think about the ending. I was confused by the last chapter. I thought that she was perfecting her life and the last life (where her brother comes back alive from WW2) would be the final one. But she is born again in the last chapter.<br /><br />Do you think there is no end to the circularity of her life or maybe there were some things she will still go to perfect (lets say, getting married/having her own children)?<br /><br />Do you think that the quick mention (and not dealt with again) of Benjamin Cole as an Israeli politician in 1967 points to a future life in which she married him and he does not become an Israeli politician/Stern Gang terrorist?<br /><br />Maybe a final life in which she manages to kill Hitler but is not killed by his bodyguards?<br /><br />Anything you can say would be appreciated. I did a reading on Goodreads about what other people thought of the ending, but everybody was just as confused.<br /><br />Best,<br />FabianFabiánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721182705553985260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-66896716925082035622015-02-17T23:09:25.229+02:002015-02-17T23:09:25.229+02:00תודה, פביאן!תודה, פביאן!Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-56725104504069529772015-02-03T11:22:17.639+02:002015-02-03T11:22:17.639+02:00I have started reading Life after Life and we will...I have started reading Life after Life and we will see how it turns out.<br />I have read some reviews of The End of Days and some say it is a terribly sad book, and I kind of dread suffering all through a novel. I am not sure I will read it, though the way you tell about the things that are lost forever is what attracts me.<br />Lets see.<br />תמיד אני קןרא אותך, יעקוב.<br />פביאןFabiánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721182705553985260noreply@blogger.com