Parade's End

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman- the last English Tory-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Agai...

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mckuroske11 января 2013 г.
Потрясающая вещь о Великобритании начала века, об обществе, о семье, о людях, о Первой мировой войне и, конечно, о любви, ненависти, долге и справедливости. Критики считают ее не менее значимой, чем "Улисс" Джойса, однако на русском языке, к сожалению, книга пока не издавалась. Я бы назвала ее "энциклопедией британской жизни" или британской "Войной и миром" - даже дерево на месте!
Читается книга нелегко, сложнее всего воспринимаются постоянные "прыжки" в стиле "дорогой, сделай мне монтаж". Внезапно читатель оказывается в совершенно другой ситуации, и только через несколько страниц понимает, что прошло несколько лет, произошли какие-то события, все изменилось...
Интересна структура, напоминающая лепестки цветка или узоры спирографа: события часто подаются с точки зрения разных персонажей, которые постоянно возвращаются к одним и тем же точкам во времени.
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For the Lincolnshire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

If he had been in the army like the two brothers, Ernest and James, next above him... But no doubt he would not have liked the army. Discipline! He supposed he would have put up with the discipline: a gentleman had to. Because noblesse oblige: not for fear of consequences... But army officers seemed to him pathetic. They spluttered and roared to make men jump smartly: at the end of apopleptic efforts the men jumped smartly. But there was the end of it...

Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They exist. Perfuming the air like Madonna lilies. Money comes into them as air through petals and foliage. Thus the world is made better and brighter. And, of course, thus political life can be kept clean!... So you can't make money.
Очень рекомендую аккуратную, добротную экранизацию - пятисерийный мини-сериал, вышедший на экраны в 2012 году.
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Rusco13 октября 2013 г.
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.
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Rusco12 октября 2013 г.
For the basis of Christopher Tietjen's emotional existence was a complete taciturnity - at any rate as to his emotions. As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk". Perhaps you didn't even think how you felt.
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Nana-hime31 января 2016 г.
This, Tietjens thought, is England! A man and a maid walk through Kentish grass fields: the grass ripe for the scythe. The man honourable, clean, upright; the maid virtuous, clean, vigorous; he of good birth; she of birth quite as good; each filled with a too good breakfast that each could yet capably digest. Each come just from an admirably appointed establishment: a table surrounded by the best people, their promenade sanctioned, as it were, by Church - two clergy - the State, two Government officials; by mothers, friends, old maids.
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