The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3) 
This book recently displaced my previous favorite book "Cruddy" and is the only book I have ever turned around and reread immediately afterwards. The writing is bare-bones, stark prose, dark & cruel, yet somehow managing to be, as well, poetic & beautiful. I could not stop thinking about this book after I read it which is why I had to reread it again immediately afterwards to try to gain a better understanding of all that went on within it's pages. I already look forward to reading it
Well, I have to write this review in English in order to achieve wide-ranged opinions... I had to wait to think over and overcome the enchantment and astonishment a bit. Friends having read the triology and me exchanged our views and I read other reviews(especially the ones including spoilers, in order to feel that other people have sensed the same way :) ). I've been reading a lot of books about WW2 (also "The Painted Bird by Kosinski, which is about the war-story of a child too), but this

Stunning. Just... Wow. One of the best things I've read in ages - a devastating meditation on identity, war, reality and loyalty all wrapped up in an ever-shifting interconnected fable.
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/7493537...He says to me, "We're all dying of one thing or another. That's what all the experts say, anyway.""What else do they say, the experts?""That the world is fucked. And that there's nothing to do about it. It's too late."My wife and I have an English Golden Retriever, a cream-colored animal, a thoroughbred of the dog genus, handsome, smart, dignified, with nary a mean bone in his body. Still a pup, he loves to play and wrestle hard, but at two-and-a-half
Icy. I can't find a better adjective to describe The Notebook, the first part of this trilogy. There are no feelings. There are merely words. Everything is objective. Even blood looks like black ink on a white paper. Death is just an analytic phenomenon. And then the second and the third part of the trilogy are a complicated mechanism in which what you read is not what you get and while you get it, it gets you.
1)This book tells the story of Hungarian twin brothers, Lucas & Claus growing up together in the house of their grandmother during WWII.2)This book is heavy-going, with a challenging writing style.3)This book is a multi-layered study of the effects of grief, isolation and unbearable loss upon the mind and memory.4)This book shows how metafiction can be used to best effect in demonstrating how memory, reality, truth and identity are all completely subjective and mutable.5)This book is bleak
Ágota Kristóf
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Title | : | The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3) |
Author | : | Ágota Kristóf |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
Published | : | June 23rd 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1986) |
Categories | : | Fiction. War. Cultural. Hungary. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Contemporary |
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These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided "brothers" in much of Europe since World War II. Kristof's postmodern saga begins with The Notebook, in which the brothers are children, lost in a country torn apart by conflict, who must learn every trick of evil and cruelty merely to survive. In The Proof, Lucas is challenging to prove his own identity and the existence of his missing brother, a defector to the "other side." The Third Lie, which closes the trilogy, is a biting parable of Eastern and Western Europe today and a deep exploration into the nature of identity, storytelling, and the truths and untruths that lie at the heart of them all. "Stark and haunting." - The San Francisco Chronicle; "A vision of considerable depth and complexity, a powerful portrait of the nobility and perversity of the human heart." - The Christian Science Monitor.Details Books Conducive To The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
Original Title: | Le Grand Cahier - La Preuve - Le Troisième Mensonge |
ISBN: | 0802135064 (ISBN13: 9780802135063) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3 |
Literary Awards: | Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2007) |
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Ratings: 4.4 From 8972 Users | 947 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)
This one contains one short novel that should be by all means be a "new classic" of our times - ok the late 1980's when it was first published. This is The Notebook which is just awesome, mind blowing and something utterly original - very dark, graphic and explicit so not for everyone but awesome nonethelessThe Proof that directly continues The Notebook and The Third Lie that reinterprets all that came before are excellent too, but they are a bit superfluous and The Notebook should have beenThis book recently displaced my previous favorite book "Cruddy" and is the only book I have ever turned around and reread immediately afterwards. The writing is bare-bones, stark prose, dark & cruel, yet somehow managing to be, as well, poetic & beautiful. I could not stop thinking about this book after I read it which is why I had to reread it again immediately afterwards to try to gain a better understanding of all that went on within it's pages. I already look forward to reading it
Well, I have to write this review in English in order to achieve wide-ranged opinions... I had to wait to think over and overcome the enchantment and astonishment a bit. Friends having read the triology and me exchanged our views and I read other reviews(especially the ones including spoilers, in order to feel that other people have sensed the same way :) ). I've been reading a lot of books about WW2 (also "The Painted Bird by Kosinski, which is about the war-story of a child too), but this

Stunning. Just... Wow. One of the best things I've read in ages - a devastating meditation on identity, war, reality and loyalty all wrapped up in an ever-shifting interconnected fable.
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/7493537...He says to me, "We're all dying of one thing or another. That's what all the experts say, anyway.""What else do they say, the experts?""That the world is fucked. And that there's nothing to do about it. It's too late."My wife and I have an English Golden Retriever, a cream-colored animal, a thoroughbred of the dog genus, handsome, smart, dignified, with nary a mean bone in his body. Still a pup, he loves to play and wrestle hard, but at two-and-a-half
Icy. I can't find a better adjective to describe The Notebook, the first part of this trilogy. There are no feelings. There are merely words. Everything is objective. Even blood looks like black ink on a white paper. Death is just an analytic phenomenon. And then the second and the third part of the trilogy are a complicated mechanism in which what you read is not what you get and while you get it, it gets you.
1)This book tells the story of Hungarian twin brothers, Lucas & Claus growing up together in the house of their grandmother during WWII.2)This book is heavy-going, with a challenging writing style.3)This book is a multi-layered study of the effects of grief, isolation and unbearable loss upon the mind and memory.4)This book shows how metafiction can be used to best effect in demonstrating how memory, reality, truth and identity are all completely subjective and mutable.5)This book is bleak
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