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Kuća disanja

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Priču o djevojčici iz Sibira koja je prvi put u životu vidjela žive slike na platnu, odnosno realnost suprotnu osjetu "prirodnoga" oka, sve povijesti filmske umjetnosti bilježe kao točku od koje počinje moderan doživljaj prostora i vremena. Dijete se, navodno, prestrašilo kovitlaca glava, ruku, nogu i stvari, te je panično pobjeglo iz kina ne znajući da je to samo viđenje stvarnosti, život uhvaćen iz više kutova istodobno i spojen u cjelinu koja se potom može pratiti u različitim pravcima.
Tom povijesnom zgodom započinje i zbirka Kuća disanja (The House of Breathing) ugledne australske književnice Gail Jones, u kojoj se čitatelju nudi četrnaest neobičnih priča o ljudima koji su uz malo napora prodrli u najveće svjetske tajne. Ponekad i nehotice. Dovoljno je da čovjek poput junakinje priče Mračna vremena okusi pravi engleski čaj pa da se odmah prisjeti studentskih dana, kad je pisao magistarski rad o jednome poznatome povijesnom događaju. Mašta će mu u raskošnim hodnicima svjetske povijesti brzo naći poticaj za vlastitu priču ili sliku. Čarolija će potom popustiti, naravno, glumci će se povući, zastor će pasti, a pozornica opustjeti, no negdje u dubini bića trajno će se naseliti čudesno treperenje za koje dotad nije znao, nešto što bi se moglo nazvati ljepotom življenja, ljubavlju, zadovoljstvom ili nečim četvrtim.
Jer slavna ruska djevojčica iz herojskog doba filma zapravo nije doživjela šok, nego prosvjetljenje. Susret s čudom moderne tehnike svojoj dobroj babuški nije opisala zbrkano i prestrašeno, nego je, veli Gail Jones, govorila o tuljcu jarkog svjetla, bijelom prolazu lebdećih leptira, nježnih, očaravajućih, naoko transcendentalnih, "koji su možda, na kraju krajeva, nekako mistično svjedočili o prolasku anđela"…
Sve stvari na svijetu povezane su na čudesan način, poručuje Gail Jones. I možda su zaista djelo nevjerojatnih anđela.

194 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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Gail Jones

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Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical monograph, and the novels BLACK MIRROR, SIXTY LIGHTS, DREAMS OF SPEAKING, SORRY and FIVE BELLS.

Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina.

Her fiction has been translated into nine languages. Gail has recently taken up a Professorship at UWS.

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September 4, 2018
Beautifully written short stories, if occasionally over-written in the sense that the choice of words is inconsistent with the voice of the narrator, a little too academic. I'm curious to know if these are published in the order in which they were written - either she settled into a more successful form, or I settled into reading her prose. Either way, some superb writing, particularly, I thought, in the penultimate story, 'These Eyes', when the narrator tells of the recollections she has upon observing someone wholly absorbed in reading Shakespeare on the train.
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January 20, 2015
Read this while I was in OZ, don't remember it. But loved a later book by the same author "Five Bells"
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