Goulds Book of Fish
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman s Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish Once upon a time, miraculous things happened Free Read [ Goulds Book of Fish ] author [ Richard Flanagan ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr If, like Gould, we gaze into life s ocean and paint what we sea, will the fish be like us, the fish be like me The answer is yes.When, like Gould, we search for the hero to our history, the savior of our story and find that files were god s joke on memory and that beauty is life s revolt against life, is it ok, like Percy Shelly, to pause and reflect that we were injured, and that means memory The answer is yes.When we realize that definitions belong to the definer, not the defined when we come If, like Gould, we gaze into life s ocean and paint what we sea, will the fish be...There are times when, as a book reviewer, it is tempting to simply put the adjectives on hold when mere descriptors seem paltry next to the indescribable beauty of the book itself Richard Flanagan s Gould s Book of Fish is that kind of book Reading it open mouthed, gasping at the richness and complexity of the text that clearly defies categorisation and classification, one feels intimately connected, while in awe of what the author has produced Gould s Book of Fish is a serious read one of There are times when, as a book reviewer, it is tempting to simply put the adjectives on hold when mere descriptors seem paltry next to the indescribable beauty of the book itself Richard Flanagan s Gould s Book of Fish is that kind of book Reading it open mouthed, gasping at the richness and complexity of the text that clearly defies categorisation and classification, one feels intimately connected, while in awe of what the author has produced Gould s Book of Fish is a serious read one of those desert island books you can read again and again and find stillmeaning in its strange depths both confirmation and destruction of those things you believe in and cannot articulate The book simultaneously makes a mockery of language, history, love, and humanity, while celebrating, and even immortalising them, much as Joyce s Finnegans Wake, or Faulkner s The Sound and the Fury did for t... Gould s Book of Fish is a modern postmodern parahistorical novel I can t define what it does exactly mean but it sounds great.I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.All th...Fish Well, why not Maybe we have lost the ability, that sixth sense that allows us to see the miracles and have visions and understand that we are something other, larger than we have been told Maybe evolution has been going on in reverse longer than I suspect, and we are already sad, dumb fish.Hard to argue with that, although any resemblance I may share with the pot bellied seahorse is purely coincidental.This is a beautiful book, for all its scabrous people and doings It is, as any good bl Fish Well, why not Maybe we have lost...This is such a truly different bookon life, on art, on fish, on the development of Van Diemen s Land and neighboring islands It s fact and fiction and myth Sometimes difficult to read but ultimately very worthwhile Is it hallucination imagination mysticism erotic fantasy a gross combination of all and summarized in the world of fish and man.This Novel in Twelve Fish is so muchthan its title could ever state or imply Under the guise of learning of Billy Gould s task to create pa This is such a truly different bookon life, on art, on fish, on the development of Van Diemen s Land and neighboring islands It s fact and fiction and myth Sometimes difficult to read but ultimately very worthwhile Is it hallucination imagination mysticism erotic fantasy a gross combination of all and summarized in the world of fish and man.This Novel in Twelve Fish is so muchthan its title could ever state or imply Under the guise of learning of Billy Gould s task to create paintings of fish, we readers will learn the history of much of mankind in the Southern Hemisphere, both native black and newcomer white and the newcomers tenuous links to their home countries Says Billy Let me confess at this point, that never have I been so ill prepared for a task as that of painting ...This is a beautifully written book but it is not for me I was fascinated with William Buelow Gould and I also love anything to do with fish I fish, flyfishing, paint and love fish So why didn t this book appeal to me Well I really don t know.And as for the ending, well it was sheer fantasyShame, an excel...This novel of life in a penal colony on Sarah Island off Tasmania in the 1820 s could be characterized as a scatological tragicomedy, as historical fantasy, and as a satire of the human race along the lines of Swift or Voltaire The character William Gould, sentenced to life imprisonment for forgery he didn t commit, recounts his pathway of survival and tenuous hold on sanity and reaches toward meaning in his life by writing his story Each chapter is linked to a painting of a specific species o This novel of life in a penal colony on Sarah Island off Tasmania in the 1820 s could be characterized as a scatological tragicomedy...An afterthought I ran into this rave review here the other dayhttp www.goodreads.com review show and it made me think whew, an intelligent human being not only liked this pile of self congratulatory rat s feces but loved it and wanted to marry it so this made me thinkMAYBE I WAS A LITTLE HASTYDamn, I hate it when I m not 100% right about everything all the time.Now I have to get this thing and try it again This is the stuff of councelling sessions In David G s review of t An afterthought I ran into this rave review here the other dayhttp www.goodreads.com review show and it made me think whew, an intelligent human being not only liked this pile of self congratulatory rat s feces but loved it and wanted to marry it so this made me thinkMAYBE I WAS A LITTLE HASTYDamn, I hate it when I m not 100% right about everything all the time.Now I have to get this thing and try it again This is the stuff of councelling sessions In David G s review o...This book lies well beyond this reviewer s abilities.My copy of Gould s Book of Fish contains three pages of snippets from various magazines and newspapers, all praising the novel as wonderful and inventive since the pages are printed on both sides it makes for a total of six pages of admiration for the book I felt almost as if I was reading a popular paperback bestseller picked up at the local grocery store, and not the winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize Not that there s anything wrong with either However, despite all the praise an My copy of Gould s Book of Fish contains three pages of snippets from various magazines and newspapers, all praising the novel as wonderful and inventive since the pages are printed on both sides it makes for a total of six pages of admiration for the book I felt almost as if I was reading a popular paperback bestseller picked up at the local grocery store, and not the winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize Not that there s anything wrong with either However, despite all the praise and promise, Richard Flanagan s strange story of William Buelow Gould and his Book of Fish did not appeal to me as much as it did to admiring reviewers and adoring readers, who hailed it as among other compliments a seamless masterpiece A peculiar phrase which eerily struck me, as of all things I thought that the book came apart at the sea...
- English
- 20 December 2017 Richard Flanagan
- Paperback
- 449 pages
- 1843540703
- Richard Flanagan
- Goulds Book of Fish