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A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
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Détails sur le produit
Relié: 432 pages
Editeur : Canongate Books Ltd; Édition : Main (11 mars 2013)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-10: 0857867970
ISBN-13: 978-0857867971
Dimensions du produit:
12,9 x 2,6 x 19,8 cm
Moyenne des commentaires client :
3.8 étoiles sur 5
4 commentaires client
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The first part of the book is the best. Ironically, the two main characters who live in parallel worlds, Ruth on a desolate island off of British Columbia, middle-aged at least, and Nao (now) , who lives in Tokyo, seem closest at the beginning. It is best not to say how they "meet" which is plausible,but meet they do. Nao is a Japanese teenager who used to live in Silicon Valley as a child with her parents. Her father worked there as an IT specialist but is fired so the family has to return to Japan. Ruth is half-Japanese herself so that gives her an advantage in understanding Nao.The themes evoked in the novel (unemployment in Japan, the humiliation of both Nao and her father when they don't succeed in Japan, Nao's revolt against this new country for her, the terrible bullying she goes through at school) are relayed in excellent writing. You can feel her utter and total loneliness which is only heard by Ruth. Then she meets her great-grandmother on her father's side who is 104 years old and who is a Buddhist nun. Nao learns how to control her emotions through this great-grandmother by adopting some Buddhist traditions to her everyday life and by learning a family secret.The Buddhist section was most interesting, but the end of the book veers off course when it tries to explain quantum physics to the reader. Some of that should have been edited - some quantum physics but here there are about thirty too many pages. In sum, a well-written book about two women living in different times and places and cultures but which I found myself putting down to digest all the information which was sometimes necessary to keep the story moving and for an American or Westerner to understand. I hope to read other books by this author. PS: the theme of death and the difference between different cultures dealing with it was also extremely interesting and totally belonged to the story unlike the way too long debates among scientists about quantum physics which could have been explained in a page.
Visitez l' univers de Ruth Ozeki, qui transporte et transforme le lecteur . Ses livres sont tres differents, mais ils ont tous une belle musique interne, qui fait que le lecteur se sent mieux au final. L' inspiration japonaise est forte, mais elle passe maintenant derriere celle des iles magiques du Pacifique canadien. L' auteur construit livre par livre un pont entre les cultures, un tres beau travail. A lire sans moderation.
Ce livre est très agréable à lire. L'idée es très originale et poétique. L'auteur, une adepte du zen, introduit des philosophes beaucoup plus difficiles à pénétrer comme Dogen Zenji, le fondateur du zen soto au Japon. Mais c'est fait sans pédantrie
lecture agréable, j'ai aimé l'atmosphère de cette île, ses habitants aussi. L'histoire elle même est intéressante, mais quand même très proche de Murakami. Si on n'a pas lu Murakami et qu'on est profondément écolo on doit pouvoir pousser à une étoile de plus.
This is a story-within-a-story. One is the account of Nao, a 16-year-old girl who is yanked out of her comfortable life in California to return to Japan when her father loses his job. In between her suicidal thoughts, she decides to write the story of her grandmother, the Buddhist nun. The other is the story of Ruth, a novelist living with her husband on an island off the coast of Canada.One day a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on shore, possibly from the 2011 tsunami. It contains a collection of artifacts, and an account of Nao's life. With Ruth, we are drawn more and more into Nao's story.I am stingy with my stars, but I am awarding this one five stars. Both stories are enchanting, and we care as much for one as the other.Nao defines a time being as “. . . someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.â€It is a book that will stick in you memory for a long time. I plan to reread it in a year or so.
While I am liking the book quite a bit, the Kindle edition is so frustrating.There are footnotes on every other page--both Japanese terms and French quotes which are translated in the footnotes. I tried to bookmark the footnotes page, but they are arranged in such a way as they can't be easily accessed. I even went to the library to find the paper version of the book as a reference. It is impossible to read on my Kindle! That is taking so much time of the enjoyment away from the book that I am forcing myself to finish it.
I think this novel could have been wonderful--the concept of it really interests me--but, I found the writing unimaginative and contrived. Parts of the plot were intriguing enough for me to slog through to the finish, but given the ending, I wish I hadn't wasted my time. I've read several books about quantum mechanics, and I've read quite a bit about Buddhism, too, but I can't accurately tell you how the author dealt with these things because I kept skipping over whole paragraphs and pages because I found them far too boring and unclear. Giving this novel just one star is pretty harsh but I'm trying to offset the many, many five star reviews. This book's popularity baffles me! It is NOT good literature!
A Tale for Time Being by Ruth OzekiTime is defined as "the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole." But a definition cannot begin to capture what time feels when you have to live through it. Through this PhD program I have wrestled with the concept of time. There is never enough of it. It either passes too fast, or too slow. Reading this book was extremely lethargic, for the main characters, speak of time often.Nao, the sixteen-year-old girl who's diary is the center of this story, explores what time means and how frustrating it can be. Her diary is for a time being, "...someone who lives in time..."; this book is meant to be read, for we readers are time beings. It is not often that you find a narrative that looks to explore this conception of time and does it so well. I have to say though, the plot line is heavy and it took me awhile to finish reading this story. And by awhile, I mean several months. It is not a book that one devours, just like Ruth (the other main character) did not devour Nao's diary in just one sitting.In A Tale for Time Being, there are two stories being told side by side, with one narrative's character addressing the other one. Nao writes her diary addressing the person who will find it and speaks to them as if they were already a part her life. At some points you aren't sure who needs the other more, is the writer needing the reader, or is the reader needing the writer?The juxtaposition of reading both the perspective of the writer and the reader, while yourself being an additional reader is trippy. It plays well into the themes brought up throughout the book, particularly the theme of time. Because time passes by differently for the writer, the reader of the diary, and then you the reader of the book. There are three different timelines, but everyone is centered on Nao's story.I was most stricken by Nao's definition of "now". Nao explains "now" as: "...in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It’s already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn’t. It’s like the word is committing suicide or something." This blew me away because she's hitting the nail on the head. Can we ever capture the now? As I am typing now, it is already then. Is it futile to attempt to capture the now, when it will always be the then? Is even trying to capture the now not allowing you to experience the now?The theme of exploring the conception of time resonated with me. Time is as elusive as the wind. You can feel it happening, but you can neither touch or see it. However, both wind and time can have physical effects on the world, and you can feel them both passing by. Time is also something that we all have to experience, regardless of how short or long we remain on this earth. However, it is not often enough that we appreciate time for what it is. Our time is limited; we only have so many heartbeats to be had, so spend them wisely."In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth." —Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouvé
This book really pulled me in. Other reviewers mentioned the end being confusing, but if you hold space and time a little bit loosely, it makes sense. I wasn't annoyed like some reviewers by the middle aged writer with a writing block. I felt she was very human and I could relate to some of her experiences. I loved reading the diary of the girl in Japan and her memories of her great grandmother. I actually enjoyed this book so much that I looked at the bibliography to get more ideas of what to read next. Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns was one of these books and I started reading it next. I really enjoyed the character of the great grandmother who was a zen nun living up on the mountain. The Women Living Zen book is really fascinating and delves more deeply into the history of how these nuns lived and still practice today in Japan. Another book that the author of A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki, praised is Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye by Marie Mutsuki Mockett. I really enjoyed this book as well and it complements some of the Japanese culture and background, including zen practice.
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