Paul Ginsborg
"The time for change"
This book is an essay on how our life today: our society, our families, our way of life. Ginsborg goes from the general - wealth, poverty, the difference between men and women, war and poverty and so on - always in a more specific - family, politics and society - in the way we live, to the extent that we find ourselves . Ginsborg
able to link the different issues in an almost natural, and I really enjoyed it. The author integrates more with what he says and quotes based on the ideas of others, not saying what he thinks, at least in his own words, except in the conclusions of the chapters. The quotations come not only from other books of essays, but also a fiction writer.
Chapter I liked the most is the families, because it is able to describe exactly how is the family today, closed to the world around her, involving only the things that happen inside the home and what happens outside of them. Mostly I was struck by the construction of Rachel Whiteread, who had built a house without doors and windows and glass, to report that their family today, when his house is not as if the house had no doors or windows, because they do not care anymore what happens outside.
much I liked the quote also made the book "Compared to England and America" \u200b\u200b RW Russell: 'Le windows are carefully screened by curtains to exclude the public eye from the outside. A simple garden is carefully walled for mere jealousy intimacy, leaving a dingy wall offend the public gaze. The houses are apparently prisoners in prisons and tenants reality. [...] We are locked in four walls and all that is beyond just concerns us. We see the company as if through a microscope, because it is entirely within the circle of our family and friends. '
The book is very well written, although in some places is not so smooth and you're trying to get the point Ginsborg's view, but in general I liked the book and recommend it to everyone, because it highlights their problems today, and makes us understand what should be changed.
Enaudi, 2004-2005
€ 10.50
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