Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 16/9/2009, 11:20:21, in reply to "Re: The Vicar of Wakefield"
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I wrote this several years ago:
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A new book of Job
February 8, 2001
By Guillermo Maynez (Mexico, Distrito Federal Mexico) - See all my reviews
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In the Bible, Job is a wealthy and happy man who is put to test by God, in order to settle a bet with the Devil. Primrose, the vicar of Wakefield, seems to suffer the same fate: first, he loses all his money; then, a man seduces his daughter and all manners of trouble set upon he and his family. But the man will never surrender. His undestructible good humor and wit, his reliance on philosophy and religion, allow him to endure all kinds of calamities, until the happy end. This is not a moralizaing book: it is pure, intelligent fun, with a message not lectured to us, but insinuated. This novel deserves to be put out of the infamous "classic" shelf (the one that condemns masterpieces of art to become "boring" for lazy readers) and into the public. It's very much worth it.
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: The amount of disasters surpassed those of typical
: Turkish movies of my childhood. After a certain point
: it was so ridiculous that I was sure it was meant to
: be funny all along.
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: I liked reading it. I did notice a timing issue.
: Something did not seem right. I can't remember exactly
: what it was now but later on when I was reading the
: introduction, it did confirm my suspicion. I think the
: whole book takes place within a year but the son
: talked about having gone for 3 years. Something like
: that.
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: I liked the language.
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: I was amused by how fast things were going, especially
: at the beginning.
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: Lale
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