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いささかまとまりに欠けるアーヴィングの新作（『第四の手』以来）の主人公は、俳優のジャック・バーンズ。自分のアイデンティティーと父親の姿を追い求め、尊大でわざと異常なふるまいをする何人もの女たちと性的関係をもつ。小説の冒頭（年代は1969年）で、4歳のジャックはトロントに住むタトゥー・アーティストの母親アリスに連れられて、家出したジャックの父親ウィリアム・バーンズを探すため、1年間、北ヨーロッパを回る。父親は教会のオルガン奏者で、「（タトゥーの）墨にとりつかれた」男だ。トロントに戻ったアリスは、「女の子の間においておけば安全」だろうという誤った考えから、ジャックを女子校の聖ヒルダ学院に入学させる。ジャックは次に、メーン州にある男子ばかりの大学進学予備校のレディング校に移る。年上の少女や大人の女性から性的な誘惑にさらされながら少年時代を送ったジャックは、世界的に有名な俳優になり、脚本家としてアカデミー賞を受賞する。やがて彼は、父親にまつわる真実を求めて子供のときに過ごしたヨーロッパにおもむくが、これは自分が正常になるための旅でもあった。繰り返される露骨な性的描写にはうんざりしてくるが、タトゥー・パーラーの素朴な仲間意識、ハリウッドのきらびやかな世界、純化されていくジャックの感情、異母妹との出会い、父親との新たな結びつきなど、わいせつでない部分のアーヴィングの表現は見事としかいいようがない。
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Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older and when his mother dies he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.
From the Hardcover edition.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older and when his mother dies he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.
From the Hardcover edition.
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レビュー対象商品: Until I Find You: A Novel (ペーパーバック)
I am an avid John Irving fan but I was kind of disappointed by this latest one. Whenever I pick up a new book by Irving I am always full of anticipation for the quirky unusual plot-lines and his humorous, down to earth story-telling, but it seems like lately he`s started to write less like a novelist and more like a screenwriter, trying his hand at bringing out the next Hollywood blockbuster. And why, oh why did we have to suffer through those long tedious descriptions of organs, and church music in the beginning chapters? It`s obvious that a fair amount of research went into this book, but is it really necessary to burden readers with all that background material???I wish he would go back to writing novels in the style of "Hotel New Hampshire" and "A Son of the Circus."
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レビュー対象商品: Until I Find You: A Novel (ペーパーバック)
主人公のジャックが母親アリスに連れられて 二人を捨てた父親を探すために ヨーロッパを点々とする事から始まる小説です。冬のデンマーク オランダ スエーデンと転々としていく先々で刺青屋をしながら アリスはジャックを育てて行くますが 父親は見つからずカナダに帰り二人の生活を開始します。 学校で演劇を学んだジャックは俳優となり 有名になります。そこで父親のうわさを聞き・・・ 妻が夫を 子供が母親を 男が女を 息子が父親を探し続ける話です。 われわれは誰を捜し求め そして見つかった後はどうするのか？ 個人的には最後５章で少し話がまとまらずに終わったのが残念
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