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  • Per parenti di 400 pagine ho tenuto il fiato sospeso. In apprensione costante per il timore che Fforde non tenesse il passo dell'incipit. Invece, tranne un finale coincitato, l'Autore è proprio bravo.
    Il libro è sufficientemente arricchito di idee originali, quanto basta per rendersi interessan ... Continue

    Per parenti di 400 pagine ho tenuto il fiato sospeso. In apprensione costante per il timore che Fforde non tenesse il passo dell'incipit. Invece, tranne un finale coincitato, l'Autore è proprio bravo.
    Il libro è sufficientemente arricchito di idee originali, quanto basta per rendersi interessante al lettore, ma senza spaesarlo eccessivamente. E Fforde se la cava bene infondendo comunque un senso di tenuta coerente del tutto.
    La trama c'è, e la scrittura è buona. Scuola di Douglas Adams, forse meno sagace, ma di penna migliore e con strutturazione romanzesca superiore.
    Il vero mistero (che NON VOGLIO mi si disveli) è come ottenere una traduzione decente: il libro è incredibilmente "brit" e, doppi sensi e giochi di parole a parte, tremo a come una traduzione non eccezionale possa devastarne le atmosfere, i suoni, il sound.

    

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  • Take centuries of British literature, a big bad guy, a different history for the real world and you'll have this novel. Jasper Fforde plays with own rules and wins the game, for the characters are vivid and interesting, all the items created by Mycroft are wonderful and Thursday is a wannahave frien ... Continue

    Take centuries of British literature, a big bad guy, a different history for the real world and you'll have this novel. Jasper Fforde plays with own rules and wins the game, for the characters are vivid and interesting, all the items created by Mycroft are wonderful and Thursday is a wannahave friend. Narrating what is written in this book isn't simple, for we have lots of crazy events. But it is funny playing with real novels and kidnapping Jane Eyre, among the others, from the pages she is written in.
    Twist the time-space and read this book.

    

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• ― etnagigante said on Jun 21, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • What Douglas Adams did for Sci-fi and Terry Pratchett does for fantasy, Jasper Fforde does for the thriller mystery genre. Set in an alternate world where literature is taken much more seriously than our own, The Eyre Affair follows the exploits of Thursday Next, a LiteraTech operative. It's fille ... Continue

    What Douglas Adams did for Sci-fi and Terry Pratchett does for fantasy, Jasper Fforde does for the thriller mystery genre. Set in an alternate world where literature is taken much more seriously than our own, The Eyre Affair follows the exploits of Thursday Next, a LiteraTech operative. It's filled with action, references to classic literature, and a sense of whimsy that just makes the book (and the series) fun to read.

    

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• ― Braydin said on Sep 25, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • 雖然創意滿分，說故事技巧卻好糟糕。也許是為了續集而製造伏筆，故 事中許多支線劇情意義不明。莎士比亞的真實身分也許是個值得討論研 究的題目，不過和主線毫無關係。吸血鬼和狼人突然出現，倏地消失， 比討論莎士比亞（至少還算文學探員工作需要）更令人摸不著頭腦。 至於 Thursday 和 Landen 的愛恨糾葛，更是幼稚得可笑。小說整體的確熱鬧有趣，卻不免東拼西 湊之感。

    作者是以第一人稱方式、Thursday 的觀點寫作；後期好像發現這樣很難說故事，不時出現第三人稱的敘事 。這種手法的英文小說我看過的不在少數，這是第一次讓我愈看愈懷疑 的作品：這個說故事的主角真的是女的嗎？我沒辦法舉例逐 ... Continue

    雖然創意滿分，說故事技巧卻好糟糕。也許是為了續集而製造伏筆， 故事中許多支線劇情意義不明。莎士比亞的真實身分也許是個值得討 論研究的題目，不過和主線毫無關係。吸血鬼和狼人突然出現，倏地 消失，比討論莎士比亞（至少還算文學探員工作需要）更令人摸不著 頭腦。至於 Thursday 和 Landen 的愛恨糾葛，更是幼稚得可笑。小說整體的確熱鬧有趣，卻不免東拼 西湊之感。

    作者是以第一人稱方式、Thursday 的觀點寫作；後期好像發現這樣很難說故事，不時出現第三人稱的敘 事。這種手法的英文小說我看過的不在少數，這是第一次讓我愈看愈 懷疑的作品：這個說故事的主角真的是女的嗎？我沒辦法舉例逐字評 論，只能說 Thursday 對話時的語氣和敘事風格帶有特別乾脆、陽剛、甚至硬漢的色彩。也 許是因為我剛好也在閱讀南方吸血鬼系列，兩者形成強烈對比？還是 因為主角的經歷，使作者故意調整她說話的方式？無論如何，很像看 到一個一直強調自己是女人的男人說故事。

    Fforde 大概真的很喜歡古典文學，除了莎翁，他另外引用或提到許多古典文 學作品，如珍奧斯汀、勃朗蒂姐妹、愛倫坡、亨利費爾汀等等，連小 說格式也是當年常見的方式：每章正文前一小段或幾行的引經據典， 暗示（或明示）此章的內容。只不過前輩是引用更早期的詩詞歌賦， Fforde 則是另外創作假想的傳記或報導。

    許多角色的名字則是學狄更斯玩起文字遊戲，取諧音如 Landen Park-Laine、Jack Schitt 等是較明顯的例子。不過像 Acheron Hades 和 Runcible Spoon（三齒．叉匙）這類我覺得惡搞得過了頭。狄更斯（威爾 基科林斯也是）的取名讓人會心一笑，Fforde 的則誇張得有些譁眾取寵。話說回來，每次看到名字的暗喻，我都很 好奇翻譯時該如何看待。中譯本的譯者丁世佳顯然採取意譯，使小說 的詼諧感更明顯。我比較喜歡間接一點的方式，最好是音譯後以註釋 附上原文。不過現在的近代翻譯小說好像比較少用註釋或譯註了。

    結論：閒暇時值得一讀的輕鬆風趣小說，拿來殺時間也不錯，尤其適 合喜好古典文學的讀者，閱讀時帶有尋寶的樂趣。可惜如果讀者熟悉 《簡愛》的故事發展，本書結局可能難以帶來震撼或驚喜。

    

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  • Witty, fast paced ... and so imaginative! I wasn't expecting to like it because of all the hype, but I am now hooked on what Thursday Next will be up to next ...

    

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  • I first read the fifth book of the Thursday Next's saga, so it's really difficult for me to say if TN's world is an easy one to fit in. I guess yes, because I really enjoyed nr. 5 ("First Among Sequels").
    In her first adventure, we meet young and single (sigh!) Thursday Next and we learn about ... Continue

    I first read the fifth book of the Thursday Next's saga, so it's really difficult for me to say if TN's world is an easy one to fit in. I guess yes, because I really enjoyed nr. 5 ("First Among Sequels").
    In her first adventure, we meet young and single (sigh!) Thursday Next and we learn about her world - which is ours, if things in history had gone slightly differently.
    No spoiling at all here, therefore I only add that she is a fully enjoyable character: a true heroine with a lot of background (and forward...) story and an emotional life.
    No idea how Jasper Fforde works, but he's really good at moving backward/forward on the timeline, and inside/outside between reality and books in order to conduct the investigation.
    Now I only have to read Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", at last :)

    

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