Resenhas - Wolf Hall

victor.victor.victor 01/11/2023

Muito bom
Reli "Wolf Hall" esse ano após uma leitura porca ano passado. Eu tinha lido tudo sem prestar atenção nos detalhes, não entendi nada da história.

Realmente é complexo porque são muitos personagens, várias ações que influenciam outras. Então se nao prestar atenção é muito fácil se perder.

Consegui aproveitar muito a leitura, achei a Hilary Mantel engraçada (aquele humor britânico) e o livro é consistente do início ao fim, muito bom.

Não consegui ler o último capítulo, parece que perdi todo o encanto pela história, não sei porque.

(Cadastrando em outra edição porque o Skoob é terrível pra registrar releituras)

Julinho 13/11/2020

You can empathize with Thomas Cromwell?
In slow, detailed steps, "Wolf Hall" tells the story of life and historical events in which the statesman is involved. It is a very well written and historically based book, with the intention of demystifying a figure normally treated negatively in the various books and films about the Tudor period, telling the other side of the story. But the author is not entirely successful, at least at the beginning of the trilogy - at first I thought that the book would focus on the suffering childhood of the historical character, towards the social ascension in the court of Henry VIII, but only one chapter briefly tells the childhood of the protagonist - the author tries to make the reader empathize with Cromwel through his family relationships and his relationship with Cardinal Wolsey (* in general I managed to like this other historical character in this book, much more than the protagonist *), showing it in a very condescending way; the problem is that the author does not treat the character considering its contradictions and is quite severe with other characters that are normally immensely empathetic to us (* Ana Bolena and Thomas More *). Hilary Mantel should treat all characters considering their complexities, without "wiping" one of them. So much historical research to put Ana Boleyn almost like Salome practically asking for More's head on a tray?