READING CLUB WITH THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

The last meeting of the year of the Reading Club Santa Eulària des Riu takes place on Tuesday, 4 from December, a las 20:00 hours in the municipal library and revolves around the novel by Nobel laureate Ishguro Kazuo, The remnants of the day.

The novel was taken to the cinema in 1993 With an exquisite direction by James Ivory, With Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson from protagonists. The remnants of the day It places us in England, July of 1956. Stevens, The narrator, Darlington Hall has been a steward for thirty years. Lord Darlington died three years ago, And the property now belongs to an American. The butler, for the first time in your life, It will make a trip. The American will return to his country for a few weeks, And he has offered his car to the butler - who outside Lord Darlington - to enjoy a vacation.

Y Stevens, in the old one, Slow and stately car of your patterns, will cross England for six days towards Weymouth, Where Mrs. Benn lives, Old Darlington Hall keys. And day to day, Ishiguro will deploy a perfect novel of lights and clearings to the reader, of masks that barely slide to reveal a reality much more bitter than the kind landscapes that the butler leaves behind.

 

Porque stevens, In those six days that culminates sitting on Weymouth beach, At sunset, When there are only the remains of the day, It ends up discovering that it has been a perfect server of wrong patterns, that if the servitude makes any meaning - he was always sure that he did -, That sense is in a worthy choice of the one to whom it is served. Lord Darlington was a member of the English ruling class that was seduced by the charms of fascism, for the "revolutionary" proposal of Oswald Mosley and his "black shirts", And even before World War II conspired actively to get an alliance between England and Germany. And Stevens discovers, And also the reader, that there is something worse to have served an unworthy man…

 

Reading Club Santa Eulalia

Tuesday, 4 from December to 2018

20:00 horas

Municipal library

Santa Eulalia

 

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