Yazar : Sonsuz Kitap
Herkes beraberinde taşıdığı bir parmaklığın ardında yaşıyor. Şimdi hayvanlarla ilgili bunca şey yazılmasının nedeni de bu. Özgür ve doğal bir yaşama duyulan özlemin ifadesi. Oysa insanlar için doğal yaşam, insanca yaşamdır. Ama bunu anlamıyorlar. Anlamak istemiyorlar. İnsan gibi yaşamak çok güç, o nedenle hiç olmazsa kurgusal düzeyde bundan kurtulma isteği var. Hayvana geri dönülüyor. Böylesi, insanca yaşamaktan çok daha kolay. Herkes sürüye katıldığından ötürü güven içerisinde, kentlerin yolarında geçip işe, yemeklerin başına ve eğlenceye gidiyor. Tıpkı büroda olduğu gibi, sınırları iyice çizilmiş bir yaşam. Böylesi bir yaşamda mucizeler değil, yalnızca kulanma talimatları, dolduracak başvuru formları ve kuralar var. Özgürlükten ve sorumluluktan korkuluyor. O nedenle insanlar, kendi yaptıkları parmaklıkların ardında boğulmayı yeğliyor. Franz Kafka Yine bir boşluğa yanıt vermekteyim, ama yanıt vermek konuşmakla olabilecek bir şey, yazarak bir deneyim kazanmıyor insan, olsa olsa mutluluk nedir, sezer gibi oluyor. Author: Sonsuz Kitap. Publisher: SONSUZ KİTAP.
Dönüşüm - Franz Kafka
I am actually not sure who I would recommend this book to. I think people who would be interested in a memoir about raising a special-needs child, especially in a milieu of super-high-intellectual-achieving individuals, would be rather put off by Gilman's unique take and tone. On one hand I totally "get" where she's going by weaving her own private passion for Wordsworth and Romantic poetry and ideals into her decidedly unromantic "real" life full of struggle and frustration and misery and shame. I get it. I just don't think it's necessarily fully successful. I understand that Gilman was raised in a real bubble of East Coast/New England/boarding school/prep school/Yale/graduate school/academic life, and I think she sort of makes a big deal out of "leaving" that life behind, but that life really bleeds into her sometimes arch, sometimes willfully naive writing style, and it grates. I think she has something interesting to say about living in a certain kind of world, and being the first person in her family to have a child of her own, both of which contribute to the "slowness" of Gilman and then the rest of her family to even realize something is truly wrong with her son. Some quibbles--being on the "other side of the table", so to speak, in having worked many years in special education with younger children, her attitude toward educational institutions that are actually trying to help her son is sometimes very frustrating. It's interesting to think that on one hand Gilman had lived her whole life in this precious bubble, and explores her struggle to burst that bubble (and the pain in doing so), yet she actually tries hard to wrap her own child in a similar bubble where the entire world is supposed to magically rework itself all to the needs and comfort of her child. Also, it must be said, sometimes what's fascinating and adorable to parents appears rather unpleasant and spoiled to "outsiders". Ahem. Anyway--it's a lyrically written book, covering a very difficult subject from a unique point of view, but doesn't quite completely jell together as a whole.
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