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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Bennett Alan
Mit allen Finessen der Ironie erzählt Bennett die Geschichte eines englischen Middleclass- Ehepaars, das vom Opernbesuch nach Hause kommt und seine Wohnung vollkommen leer vorfindet. Mit dem Verlust der gediegenen Einrichtung beginnt für sie ein neues, weniger weich gepolstertes Leben.
Eine Liebeserklärung an die Quenn und an die Literatur - wer hätte gedacht, dass das zusammenpasst?
Überwacht von einem unbestechlichen Gesandten der übergeordneten Kirchenbehörde, zelebriert Pater Jolliffe einen Gedenkgottesdienst für den Bettgefährten der beautiful people von London, einen auch ihm selbst wohlbekannten Mann. Unerwartete Enthüllungen der versammelten Hinterbliebenen sorgen dafür, dass die traurige Zeremonie einen rasanten Wandel durchläuft.
Om det inte varit för de olydiga hundarna så skulle den engelska drottningen förmodligen aldrig ha upptäckt bokbussen. Drottningen stiger på den slitna kommunala bussen som står parkerad vid Westminister Palaces köksregioner för att be om ursäkt för sin skällande hund och av artighet lånar hon en av böckerna från hyllorna. Det visar sig dock vara en omåttligt torr och tråkig roman, men drottningen läser pliktskyldigt ut den, lämnar tillbaka den och återvänder till slottet med en ny bok i väskan. Den här gången får bokvalet förödande konsekvenser. Boken i fråga väcker nämligen Hennes Majestäts passion för läsning. En passion som växer sig så stark att hennes officiella plikter snart blir lidande. Och medan drottningen förlustar sig med världslitteraturen så konspirerar hennes undersåtar om hur Hennes Majestäts litterära utsvävningar ska få ett slut. Med skarp humor och mycken värme beskriver Alan Bennett en högst ovanlig läsares öde. Drottningen vänder blad är en underhållande och underfundig bok om hur böcker berikar livet.
Kaikki on koirien syytä. Ilman niitä kuningatar tuskin olisi seonnut kaunokirjallisuuteen. Hänen Majesteettinsa tulee lainanneeksi kirjastoautosta ensin yhden romaanin, sitten toisen, ja pian hän ahmii kirjoja intohimolla, joka saa koko hovin pois tolaltaan. Kuningattaren lähipiiri pääministeriä myöten saa nimittäin huomata, että kirjallisuus on räjähdysherkkää tavaraa - kirjaimellisesti. Lopulta vaakalaudalla on koko kuningaskunnan tulevaisuus.
The Ransomes had been burgled. 'Robbed,' Mrs Ransome said. 'Burgled,' Mr Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered... The fact is that the Ransomes have been cleaned out. Everything has gone, even the toilet paper; and for the stuffy solicitor and his downtrodden wife it marks a turning point, a kind of liberation. Nothing will ever be quite the same, even when their possessions mysteriously turn up again, exactly as they left them... Sad and funny, poignant and perceptive, this is Bennett at his brilliant best. 2 CDs. 2 hrs 20 mins.
20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations. Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump and the death of the Queen. In between, we take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral. 2024 is the year that Alan turns ninety; he reflects on old age and the importance of luck. He looks back to childhood and recalls an idyllic wartime month as an evacuee. A book for the bedside, this is poignant, funny, contemplative Alan Bennett, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices.
As Allied air force bombers mercilessly pound Nazi Germany every night in late 1943, the decision is made to send a number of journalists on a mission to Berlin. One of them was a young American journalist Lowell Bennett, who had made his name reporting on the Allied invasion of Tunisia. When their Avro Lancaster is hit by Luftwaffe fighters, everyone is forced to bail out. Bennett was taken prisoner upon landing in Germany. Before delivering him to a prison camp for the duration of the war, Bennett’s captor, a German officer, decides to take him on a tour of various German cities, a submarine base, and the Ruhr in order to let the journalist see for himself the terrible suffering of the civilian population, the prime target of Allied bombing. In this vivid first-hand account of his experiences, Bennett expresses his indignation at this selective bombing and vehemently criticises the Allies' strategic bombing policies. Controversial at the time of its publication in 1945, Bennett's account remains the only first-hand report by an Allied journalist of the RAF and USAAF bombing raids seen from ground level.
'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued scholars, readers and play-goers for over four hundred years: What happened next? Prince Lear tackles yet another conundrum: What happened just before the start of King Lear, setting in motion the improbable events of Act I, scene 1? And in Fatal Loins, the question answered by the play is directly posed in the prologue: 'If Juliet and Romeo survive / Will their eternal passion stay alive?'“I am no stranger to Shakespearean parody… but reading Pontac I am (only slightly) mortified to find that he can write cod Shakespeare much better than Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore or myself” – Alan Bennett, from the foreword
