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Tim O\'Brian

    Tim O'Brien se proslavil svým pronikavým pohledem na traumatické zážitky války a ztrátu nevinnosti. Jeho próza se často noří do složitosti paměti a morálního úpadku, zkoumá, jak se jednotlivci vyrovnávají s hrůzami minulosti. O'Brienovo mistrovství spočívá v jeho schopnosti spojit syrovou realitu s lyrickou krásou, čímž čtenářům nabízí hluboce dojemné zamyšlení nad lidskou odolností a následky konfliktu.

    Going After Cacciato
    • 1978

      Going After Cacciato

      • 395 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      3,9(13002)Ohodnotit

      "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales Going After Cacciato is a fully dramatized account of men both in action and escaping from it....Clearly we are dealing here with what the new South American novelists would call 'magical realism'. To combine the two and make the result esthetically convincing is a major achievement." -- The New York Times Book Review "Magical and inspiring...truly incomparable! Every war has its chroniclers of fear and flight, its Stephen Cranes and Joseph Hellers. Time O'Brien joins their number." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Cacciato is one dumb soldier. He is walking away from war. Across mountains and deserts and swamps, hiking the 8600 miles from Vietnam to the lights of Gay Paree. To civilization. To peace. But that's insane. Isn't it? So a squad of fellow soldiers goes after crazy Cacciato. Their mission: bring him back to reality. Or else

      Going After Cacciato