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Bizarre Romance af Audrey Niffenegger & Eddie Campbell, 2018.\u00a0Jonathan Cape. Antal stjerner: 3\/5<\/em><\/p>\n

Hvad kan man kalde for en bizar romance og hvad er denne her \u201cchurch of the funnies\u201d, som er lidt anderledes end andre kirker?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Audrey Niffenegger og hendes mand Eddie Campbell st\u00e5r bag denne bog, der indeholder tretten historier om us\u00e6dvanlige karakterer og det er b\u00e5de i form af sm\u00e5 tegnede historier og noveller (p\u00e5 mit bibliotek stod den opstillet som en graphic novel). Nogle af historierne handler om feer, andre om katte og der er endda ogs\u00e5 historier om magiske spejle. En af disse noveller er \u201cSecret Life with Cats\u201d, hvor fort\u00e6lleren i en alder af 42 \u00e5r har arvet et hus efter en kvinde, som hun har m\u00f8dt p\u00e5 det her Happy Cat Home, hvor hun var frivillig (selvom hendes mand var allergisk):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, real estate was a stopgap. I would lie on the couch in our tiny south Evanston apartment, bald from chemo and ravenous from steroids, and Jim would sit with my bloated feet on his lap, wearing his Century 21 vomit-yellow jacket. He\u2019d tell me stories. There was the two-flat with the racing pigeon empire on the roof, the illegal apartment in the basement of a house full of Haitian tenants who followed Jim and his buyer from room to room but never spoke a word. Jim began every story the same way: \u201cBeatrice, you\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u201d The possessions of the sellers, their bad taste, bad habits, their misconceived notions of what might attract buyers – these fascinated Jim the same way that the subjects of his ethnographies once had. He sold his first house, and we gloated over the commission; even though it went directly toward hospital bills, Jim was as hooked as any gambler. He stopped teaching and sold real estate full-time. Every house sold was a triumph.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Men hvad er der med det her hus, som vores fort\u00e6ller har arvet og hvad bringer det med sig for fort\u00e6lleren og hendes mand?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

En anden historie er \u201cChurch of the Funnies\u201d, hvor fort\u00e6lleren som barn finder ud af, at der findes en anden slags kirke end de helt s\u00e6dvanlige. Som barn i de amerikanske midtvestlige stater fik hun de ti bud forklaret af hendes l\u00e6rer, men senere hen begyndte hun at tvivle p\u00e5 hvad hun skulle tro. Men s\u00e5 unders\u00f8gte hun noget, som hendes far engang havde n\u00e6vnt:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was small, my mother used to make me and my sisters all presentable every Sunday and then haul us off to church. On our way out the door, we were usually treated to the sight of my dad lying on the living room sofa with the newspaper spread comfortably around him, reading the Sunday comics. One Sunday I said to my mom, \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Dad have to come to church with us?\u201d And my dad, overhearing me, replied, \u201cI don\u2019t belong to your church.\u201d Which was quite true; we were Catholic, and my dad was First Congregational, a sort of Protestant. I said, \u201cWhat church do you belong to? Why aren\u2019t you in church?\u201d And my dad replied, \u201cI belong to the Church of the Funnies\u201d. \u201c<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Men hvad er der med denne her \u201cChurch of the Funnies\u201d, som g\u00f8r den forskellig fra alle andre kirker og hvorfor er det, at vores fort\u00e6ller er s\u00e5 fascineret af den?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeg m\u00e5 \u00e6rligt indr\u00f8mme, at det ikke var alle historier, der gav lige meget mening for mig i denne samling af Niffenegger og Campbell. Det er ikke den f\u00f8rste bog, som jeg har l\u00e6st af Niffenegger (jeg kan varmt anbefale de tre andre, som jeg har l\u00e6st: \u201cThe Time Traveler’s Wife\u201d, \u201cHer fearful symmetry\u201d og \u201cThe Night Bookmobile\u201d), men der var noget lidt syret ved flere af historierne, som jeg bare fandt bizart. Men da der var liges\u00e5 mange interessante historier som af de andre, har den f\u00e5et 3 ud af 5 stjerner. Niffenegger skriver utrolig godt og Campbell, der arbejder som tegneserietegner, viser en virkelig bred palet i m\u00e5der at illustrere bogen p\u00e5. <\/span><\/p>\n

Alt i alt en virkelig interessant, men ogs\u00e5 ret bizar bog om bem\u00e6rkelsesv\u00e6rdige eksistenser og selvom jeg ikke var vild med alle historierne, s\u00e5 er der et eller andet ved Niffeneggers skrivestil, som jeg bliver ved med at vende tilbage til og heldigvis har jeg stadig et par af hendes b\u00f8ger til gode p\u00e5 min TBR-liste. <\/span><\/p>\n

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