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book reminds me of how beautifully written classics are, Written in, it is a fictional, but chillingly realistic account of the horrors and futility of war, A family is divided by marriage, French and German cousins face each other and discover patriotism is more compulsive than family, Conflict in inevitable and enduring, A great book to tug the emotions,yılında I. Dünya Savaşı'nı Marne Çarpışması üzerinden anlatan ama bununla birlikte Don Marcello Desnoyers ve oğlu Julio Desnoyers'in hayatları üzerinden kırk yıllık bir dönemi hikâye eden harika bir romandı.
Romantik unsurların eksik olmadığı gerçekçi bir roman, İsminden de anlaşılacağı gibi Hristiyan mitolojisine bazı göndermelerle yüklü bir metin, Özellikle Belle Epoque dönemi Paris'i, sosyal ayrışmayı, kültürel çatışmayı, çarpık milliyetçi zihniyetin yol açtığı zulmü, kadın ve erkek meselesini, güzel bir aşk hikayesini de kapsayan sürükleyici bir klasik eser.

Türkçe'de şimdilik sadece bu kitap var, Aslında pek üretken ve bilinen bir yazar olmasına rağmen bizim yayıncılarımız rağbet etmemiş.

Daha önce Adnan Cemgil çevirisiyle yayımlanan Baharlar Açarken ve'de yayımlanan Fırtınadan Önce Şark İstanbulNeyyire Gül Işık çevirisi kitaplarını da bulmak zor.

Evet, Ibanez İstanbul'a da gelmiş ve çok etkilendiği bu şehri anlatmış,
Yazar Vicente Blasco Ibanez'in özellikle Emile Zola'dan etkilendiği söyleniyor, Bir rivayete göre de Cervantes'in ardından en çok çevrilen İspanyol yazarmış, Ama belki bu günlerde Gonçalo M, Tavares bu sıralamayı değiştirmiştir,
Okumanızı önereceğim klasiklerden biri olarak burada yerini alsın, Bu yıl Gergedan'daki atölyemizin en sevilen klasik romanı payesini de ona verdik The Four Horseman of the Apocalpyse has turned up on best books lists.
I picked it up after reading and liking Edna Ferber's So Big, which won thePulitzer Prize for best novel, The Four Horsemen took me a while to read due to its slow pace,

I particularly recommend this book for history fans, It was first published a hundred years ago exactly, in, Although the book is fiction, readers get eyewitness detail of World War I, It is also prescient about WWII,

There is a strong sense of the end of the Europe's elegant, leisurely Edwardian era and the strange fog of a new and more technical warfare, including the first trench warfare.


A briefer and more powerful book also set in WWI is All Quiet on the Western Front, Utilizando como telón de fondo la rivalidad en el seno de una familia pudiente, el autor nos muestra cómo, encabezados por la Guerra I Guerra Mundial, los jinetes del Apocalipsis pueden azotar a la humanidad y no hacen distinciones de raza, nacionalidad, edad, sexo o estatus social.

Una lectura muy recomendable,
Behind every book you read there is the tale of how you came to read it, In, when I was a ten year old schoolboy, my father took my elder brother and I to see a film at our local cinema, called The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
I was far too young to appreciate such a film at the time and I had no idea what the word Apocalypse meant.
I remember only two scenes from the film, The first was of a family sat round a table, discussing something very seriously, all looking very troubled, the other was of the four horsemen riding out of a background of newspaper headlines, concerned with war and invasion, and battle scenes.
Looking back, I remember being disturbed, moved by the film, It was very grand, dramatic, After the film ended, I remember standing in the cinema foyer, looking up at the poster for the film that was to be shown the following week, which was called The Lonely Are The Brave.
A title that puzzled me and made me feel sad,
"You didn't see much of them, did you, the four horsemen," I said to my father, in a disappointed tone, before we left the cinema, to catch the bus home.

"No, but I knew what it was about," he said,
Maybe he took my elder brother and I to see the film because it was about the First World War and my grandfather fought in the Battle of the Somme.

In the's, during the Christmas holiday period, a silent film of the same name, made in, starring Rudolph Valentino, was shown on Channel Four television.
It was interesting watching a film so old, It was worth the watch, with some very dramatic scenes, The scene that still haunts me came near the end, An old man with a black, straggly beard, staggers around a field of lines of white crosses, looking for the grave of his son.
He outspreads his arms, in despair, Then on the screen comes the caption card, Printed on it are the words: "I knew them all, "
At the same time, I found out that both films were based on a novel of the same name, written by someone called Vicente Blasco Ibanez.
One day, I will read it, I promised myself, Now, here in, I have done,
I found it a very moving, disturbing novel, written in clear, bold prose that reveals the root of things, right to the bare bones.
It seems at first as if it will be no more than the history of a wealthy landowner, called Don Marcelo Desnoyers and his family, alone.
But when the family move from their ranch in Argentina to Paris, it deepens and widens out to become one that tells of how the events of the beginning of the First World War tears its members apart, as it does all of Europe.
One of the passages that will always haunt me from the novel is the one which describes the conversation between Julio, the son of Don Marcelo Desnoyers, his friend, Argensola, and an old, bearded Russian man, named Tchernoff, as they walk towards the Arc De Triomphe, in Paris.
In an inspired state, Tchernoff speaks of war in Europe, summoning in his ramblings the four horsemen from Chapter Six of the Book of Revelation.

The novel is good at capturing how first the rumour and talk of war leads to frenzy when the news comes in that Germany has invaded Belgium.
From then on, Paris is transformed, relationships and perceptions changed, The middle part of the book is particularly moving and dramatic, concentrating on Don Marcelo, who remains in Paris, after sending his wife, Dona Luisa, and his daughter, Chichi, to live in a seaside town in Spain, to escape the possible German invasion.
From Paris, he retreats to the castle he bought outside its walls, in the countryside, First he lives there, like a hermit, then as a prisoner, after it is taken over by the German army, The battle he witnesses between the German army and the French army is well told, Vicente Blasco Ibanez makes you feel the shudder of the cannons, as they fire, and makes you see and smell each explosion.
His descriptions of battle reminded me of the battle scenes in War and Peace, the poetry of Wilfred Owen, and much further back, to the battle scenes described by Homer in The Iliad.

I was moved by the sad tale of the romance between Julio and Marguerite, which runs throughout the novel, When Julio first moves to Paris, he is content to live only for pleasure, living the life of a painter in his studio with his fellow artist, Argensola, becoming popular on the dance floors, while persisting with his romance with Marguerite, a married woman.
But when war comes, he joins the French army and eventually becomes an officer, after performing some heroic deeds, Strangely, it is the war which reconciles Don Marcelo with his son, Julio, Before it begins, father and son had become estranged, because Don Marcelo had not approved of Julio's pleasure seeking lifestyle or his love affair with a married woman.

I am glad I have finally read this novel, I am not interested

in war adventure stories or thrillers, This book is neither an adventure or a thriller, It is a tale told of how war affects human beings of all kinds, written in a very moving way, on a grand scale.

Perhaps one day someone will make a third film, based on the same novel, It has well drawn, interesting characters, clear, bold descriptions of battles, and at its centre, it has the complicated, ultimately sad romance between Julio and Marguerite, and the grand summoning of the four horsemen from the pages of the Book of Revelation, bringing conquest, war, judgement and death upon the battlefield of Earth.

Düşük beklentiyle başlayıp, çok severek okuduğum kitaplardan biri oldu, Savaşın çirkin yüzü, halkın çaresizliği, yitirilen yaşamlar, parçalanan aileler, . . Yazar kadar çevirmenin dilini de çok beğendim, Çok keyif alarak okudum. Me ha gustado mucho, me ha transportado a la época y he podido vivir con detalle los momentos previos a la guerra y meterme en la piel de los personajes durante ella.

Me quedo sobre todo cuando viven el momento previo, con las conversaciones del primo alemán y el ruso, Sin duda de lo mejor del libro, Luego, a partir de aquí, se viene abajo un poco pero porque hasta ese momento, la tensión creada era sublime, pero me quedo también con la historia que vive el padre defendiendo su castillo con el contacto del ejercito alemán apoderándose de todo.

Al final, la muerte del hijo, da ese golpe de realidad final para un padre que cree que no puede perderlo y que muestra la cantidad de muertos que dejo esta guerra cuando andan buscándolo, guerra que aún está por terminar en el libro y que fue la más sangrienta hasta la fecha.

Sin duda un buen libro, me ha hecho interesarme mucho más en esta guerra y de la que me gustaría ver algunas de las obras llevadas al cine sobre esta novela.
Ibañez in çok güçlü bir kalemi var kitabı okurken ilk sayfalarda bunu hissedebiliyorsunuz ve muhtemelen bir kitabını daha okuyacağım çünkü merak ettim araştırırken.
Romantizm akımının etkisinde olduğu belli ve bu kitap boyunca devam ediyor ki, Romantizm benim favori akımlarımdan.

Kitap genel olarak Desnoyerların etrafında dönüyor ve Julio ile Marcelo romanın aslında baş karakterleri ve roman genel olarak babaoğul ilişkisi gölgesinde din,siyaset,kültür ve toplum konularına değiniyor ben Mahşerin Dört Atlısı başlığından daha fantastik bir anlatım beklerdim açıkçası çünkü iddialı bir başlık.
Nitekim kitabın birkaç noktada başlığa direkt olarak değindiği ve sembolik olarak ilerlediği de bir gerçek.

Kitabayıldız vermemin nedenine gelince, kitap savaş sahnelerini ve betimlemelerini çok fazla uzatmış, ki aynı sahneleri tekrar tekrar anlatıyor gibi olmuş.
Sanırım bu durum Ibañezin gerçek hayatta yüksek mevkide bir kişi tarafından savaşta insanların neler yaşadığını görsün diye savaş bölgelerine gönderilmesinin bir sonucu ve muhtemelen gerçek gözlemlerine dayanarak yazılmış.
Yine de o kadar uzun ve bazı noktalarda tekrara düşülmüş hissi uyandırıyor ki, açıkçası ben bir noktadan sonra uyuklamamak için göz kapaklarıma bant takmayı düşündüm.

Tüm bunlara ek ufak ufak aşk serpiştirmeleri var ve gerçekten merak uyandıran birkaç konudan biri.
Kitabı bitirmenize yardımcı olacak konulardan biri diyebilirim,
Kitabın sonunu açıkçası garip buldum, Daha farklı şeyler olmasını beklerdim,günümü aldı kitap, I, Dünya Savaşı ile ilgili bu kitap benim gibi kitabı uzun zaman merak edenlere hitap edecektir fakat başlamadan önce kendinizi tarihi,siyasi uzun betimlemelere hazırlamanızı öneririm.
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