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Riddley Walker Tapa dura – 16 octubre 1980

Edición en Inglés de Russell Hoban (Autor)
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  1. Longitud de impresión
    220 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Jonathan Cape Ltd
  4. Fecha de publicación
    16 octubre 1980
  5. ISBN-10
    0224018515
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0224018517
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  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Fecha de publicación ‏ : ‎ 16 octubre 1980
  • Edición ‏ : ‎ 1st Edition
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Longitud de impresión ‏ : ‎ 220 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0224018515
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0224018517
  • Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 454 g
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  • F
    3,0 de 5 estrellas Meh
    Reseñado en Italia el 13 de octubre de 2018
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    Interesting premises and technique, but the plot gets ridiculous after a few chapters
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  • MMM
    5,0 de 5 estrellas A brilliant and important book
    Reseñado en Canadá el 17 de abril de 2022
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    I have read this book five times. The first time, back in the seventies, I didn't understand what was going on and even when I finished a second read-through I was confused. So I read it again, and I was staggered by its force. Riddley Walker is the 12-year old author. His language is difficult, a disintegrating version of English. No speed-reading here: "I dont think it makes no diffrents where you start the telling of a thing. You never no where it begun realy. No more you know where you begun your oan self." Riddley lives in a post-apocalyptic England (called "Inland"), hundreds of years after "the One Big One," a world-wide atomic war, devastated the land, the sea, the people, and the language. It's a novel filled with courage, wisdom, and optimism. Last week, I finished a fifth-time marathon, reading the book to myself aloud. Lights dawned. I still have some puzzles to untangle, but I now realize that "aloud" meant I slowed down, listened, and learned. One reviewer said the book kept readers from becoming stupid. Amen. Most readers don't want to feel stupid, so they might give the book to a second-hand shop. But others might be up for the challenge. "Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same." Give young Riddley a chance.
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  • alaska
    5,0 de 5 estrellas Arga Warga Yoop yaroo!
    Reseñado en Estados Unidos el 1 de diciembre de 2015
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    Reading Riddley Walker has been one of the most profound and moving experiences I've ever had with literature. Every sentence and every word stuck to me, and I couldn't help but want to get lost in the corrupted language.

    Some 2347 years, give or take, after a nuclear holocaust has wiped out our present civilization, the world's been stagnating in its earliest stages. Riddley Walker's is a text written by its eponymous connexion man after his naming day (i.e., 12th birthday), which means the text is written in a form of English quite transformed from our own. His short-lived role of connexion man ties him as a go-between to the ruling elite of the local Inland and Eusa folk. In a dead world with no electricity, communications, methods of transportation, science, literature, &c., he’s trained to translate the Mincery’s (‘Ministry’) puppet renditions of Punch & Pooty (‘Judy’) shows and the teachings of Eusa (‘St. Eustace,’ taken from the Cambry (‘Canterbury’) cathedral).

    Eusa’s dynamic teachings are the foundation for moral authority across the Inland (present-day Kent). He was, once upon a time, a religious martyr responsible for the 1 Big 1--tricked by the devil (‘Mr Clevver’) into splitting the atom (‘Little Shynin Man the Addom’) and causing the final holocaust. His head is spoken of as still speaking law at the mysterious island of Ram, where the ruling elite presumably live and dole out the Mincery’s law through puppet theater. His guilt is a guilt of a society driven by knowledge and power to be self-destructive, and it’s a guilt carried by the Eusa folk of Riddley’s time. Like many religious followers, the Eusa folk carry the suffering of Eusa in both physical and psychological mutations--their emotions form a telepathic connection between one another, and often packs of wild dogs. Riddley, as part of his connexion duties, has one version of Eusa’s Story and its core teachings memorized. The memorized text he uses for his work reflects modern religions: Its teachings were written long after the existence of Eusa, but centuries before Riddley Walker recites them, and the language itself is slightly less corrupted compared to the language the current Inlanders speak.

    Punch & Judy pop up with significant influence throughout the book. At times, the creepy rebelliousness of Mr Punch is literally channeled through Riddley, who carries a pre-war, rotten Punch doll as a charm. For the central conflict, we even get a full performance of Punch & Judy mythologized for the people of the Inland. (Despite its unoriginality, that ranks among my favorite passages from any novel. I highly recommend those unfamiliar to give Neil Gaiman’s Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch a look-see first. I’d wager his creepy graphic novel knowingly takes a lot from Hoban’s use of the doll.)

    Riddley Walker’s difficult at times, but is balanced enough between catchy lyricism and a Joycean nightmare that its messy style is more a boon than a distraction. Even though the language is of its own world, its vocabulary is as limited as the culture employing it. Keeping it simple, then, Hoban has riddled the language with as many layers and allusions as he could. You still have to slow down, but at least you'll want to--and ain't that a clear sign of great writing if ever there was one! (Indeed, the 1998 edition features an afterword by the author, with a sample from his first draft written in standard English. It carries little of the published novel's weight.)

    While some guiding themes are built from typical Cold War fears, they're written in a way that effects a timelessness in this new mythology Hoban created. The corruption of language, and mythopoeic reconstruction of a moral belief system in this future Dark Age keeps Walker's text from feeling dated by Cold War ideology and its technological trappings. E.g., the Inland's folklore is often peppered with broken references to science and technology, but the backwards, '70s understanding of it benefits the backwards state of the Inland society. Puter Leat is Computer Elite; Belnot Phist is Nobel Physicist; 1stoan Phist is Einstein Physicist; and--a favorite--the sovereign galaxies and nebulae above are the sarvering gallack seas and flaming nebyul eye.

    Knowledge is the currency of power in the Inland, particularly the lost knowledge of the industrial age. This is probably why no one ever seems to be headed anywhere in Riddley Walker: They’re fighting to take Eusa’s very steps and split the Little Shynin Man once again, taking equal movements forward and back with each Ful of the Moon. Kinda sucky world, but I really wanna go back.

    Arga Warga.
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  • Michelle Morgan
    3,0 de 5 estrellas Unique but the story gets lost.
    Reseñado en Australia el 5 de septiembre de 2021
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    I first read this book in the early 1990's then I loaned it to someone who never returned the book. During lockdown 2020 I re-purchased it and have just finished it. The first time I read it I was young and impressionable, I would say but this time, less of both. The idea behind the story of Riddley Walker, I can understand the rave reviews, to develop a language like this takes talent and dedication. Having said that, there are glimpses of how great this story could have been but I think it got lost in the zealous use of the language, the long rambling paragraphs where it was difficult to find the point and direction that went on and on. In the end, I was pleased it came to an end.
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  • Frodo's Friend
    5,0 de 5 estrellas HAPPY ZANTING
    Reseñado en el Reino Unido el 22 de abril de 2015
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    This is one of the great fantasy novels of all time. I have loved and admired it for many years. Although summaries of the plot often state that this post-apocalypse world was brought about by nuclear war the mention of a 'power ring' suggests to me that it was a particle accelerator similar to the one at CERN that did the damage. When it comes to a glossary I think it's more fun to work out one for yourself as I did the first time I read it. In this edition I don't find Will Self's introduction particularly helpful. What is he on about? Somebody said, was it him? that Eusa stood for the USA. Personally I thought the European Space Administration more likely. Anyway I would recommend this book to anyone who is not afraid to let their imagination take flight. Good reading!
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