Heaven Help Us
by Arto Paasilinna
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Cosa faresti se fossi Dio? Pirjeri Ryynänen, gruista di Helsinki, una risposta l ́avrebbe trovata nei quotidiani monologhi di protesta che in cima alla sua gru rivolge all ́Onnipotente: eliminerebbe fame e povert© , proteggerebbe l ́ambiente e garantirebbe a tutti pace e felicit© . Ma il lavoro da fare è infinito. Forse è per questo che Dio è cos©Ơ stanco e depresso: non ne può più dell ́umanit© , delle sue iniquit© e delle sue guerre, e se non ha ancora distrutto la Terra show more è solo perché è tanto bella, e poi che colpa ne hanno gli altri animali? Magari gli basterebbe andare in vacanza e lasciare le divine responsabilit© a un supplente terrestre, visto che san Pietro e l ́arcangelo Gabriele, che gli uomini li conoscono bene, non ne vogliono sapere. Cos©Ơ, dopo una lunga selezione basata su un profanissimo questionario delle risorse umane, la scelta del vicario cade proprio su Pirjeri, uomo a suo modo devoto e certo abituato ad ampie vedute. Il gruista, fresco di onnipotenza, rivoluzioner© il paradiso, che somiglia tanto a un ́azienda, e lo sposter© nella pagana e amena Finlandia. Ma tra iniziative strampalate, un attacco hacker del Maligno e l ́audace creazione di strani animali amazzonici a sei zampe, Pirjeri dovr© riconoscere che non è facile essere Dio. Non solo perché il Diavolo è sempre in agguato, la Chiesa troppo conservatrice e c ́è il rischio di pestare i piedi ad altre divinit© : anche un Onnipotente ha i suoi limiti show lessTags
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Lättsam förströelselitteratur ska inte underskattas men den här allsmäktiga historien känns obearbetad.
Idén att tänka sig gud som en praktisk företagsledare är inte dum men berättelsen blir för snårig. Mängder av lösa trådar gör ett slarvigt intryck.
Idén att tänka sig gud som en praktisk företagsledare är inte dum men berättelsen blir för snårig. Mängder av lösa trådar gör ett slarvigt intryck.
Kómisk sýn á ástandið í Himnaríki þegar Guð neyðist til að taka sér frí vegna vinnuálags. Sem afleysingarGuð verður alger nýgræðingur öllum að óvörum. Sérvitri Finninn Pirjeri Ryynänen ætlar sér að redda málunum á meðan Guð skreppur frá en við tekur þrautaganga stöðugrar átaka við Skrattann, staðnað stofnanabákn Himnaríkis og síðast en ekki síst staðsetning Himnaríkis sjálfs.
Dálítið brokkgeng saga og ádeilugjörn en skondin á sinn máta.
Dálítið brokkgeng saga og ádeilugjörn en skondin á sinn máta.
in genre ;-), dus ontspannend én relativerend...Kloos schreef ooit 'ik ben een God in het diepst van mijn gedachten...' Ik erken de neiging om te oordelen over zaken die ik niet voldoende inschatten kan...Toch vond ik Steinbeck met "Wees maar eens koning" veel sterker literair gezien.
Som vanligt är Paasilinna mycket rolig och underfundig. En bok att läsa när man vill bli glad!
Mar 25, 2008Swedish
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Arto Paasilinna was born on April 20, 1942 in the Alakylä part of the municipality of Kittilä, in Lapland, Finland. Arto Paasilinna studied at the General and Elementary School Line at the Lapland Folk Academy. He initially worked as a journalist at Nuoren Voiman Liitto, Nuori Voima-lehti and various newspapers as writer and editor. At the show more weekly magazine Apu, he was an editor from 1968 - 1970 and later a columnist from 1975 - 1988. In 1975 he wrote The Year of the Hare in response to his feeling that journalism was becoming superficial and meaningless. The book was an immediate success and from 1975 on Paasilinna became an independent writer. He still writes journalism articles and has been a columnist on Finnish radio. In 2002, for Paasilinna's 60th anniversary, journalist Eino Leino published a biography of Paasilinna called Lentojätkä. Arto Paasilinnan elämä" ("The Flight Dude"). The same year Paasilinna published his own autobiography called Yhdeksän unelmaa ("Nine Night's Dream"). As of 2009, Paasilinna has published about 12 non-fiction books and 35 novels, with almost one novel each year from 1972 to 2009. Paasilinna's books reflect quite common Finnish life, usually from a middle-aged male perspective, and in rural Finland. His title Year of the Hare made the New York Times Best Seller list for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Heaven Help Us
- Original title
- Auta armias
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Birger Ryynänen; God; Gabriel, the Angel (Saint, Archangel)
- Original language*
- finska
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.541 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Finnic languages Finnish
- LCC
- PH355 .P22 .P337 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Finnish
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