Tortilla Flat.
min absoluta favoritbok ar John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat (Riddarna kring Danny's bord)
Wikipedia (oj jag ar ju saa kallkritisk) skriver sahar:
The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos, denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition.
Above a town of Monterey on the California coast lies the shabby district of Tortilla Flat, inhabited by a loose gang of jobless locals of Mexican descent (who typically claim Spanish descent) whose riotous adventures are compared by Steinbeck to the exploits of the Knights of King Arthur.
Soft-hearted, unquestioningly loyal to one another, and in complete disregard of social conventions and expectations, the gutsy paisanos of Tortilla Flat cheerfully reside in a world of idyllic poverty. Steinbeck gives a description of a paisano, who according to Steinbeck speaks English with a paisano accent, and Spanish with a paisano accent: "He is a mixture of Spanish, Indian, Mexican and assorted Caucasian bloods. His ancestors have lived in California for a hundred years or two.... He lives in that uphill district above the town of Monterey called Tortilla Flat, though it isn't flat at all."
jag vet inte riktigt vad det var som fick mig att googla boken idag, men jag gjorde det i alla fall och da visar det sig att man har gjort en film av Tortilla Flat som spelades in 1942 !
jag maste fa tag i den pa dvd och se den.
jag har last den har boken flertalet ganger och det ar en underbar berattelse som man blir alldeles varm av att lasa. jag skrattar hogt, jag myser, jag blir ledsen, jag blir glad. jag ler t o m lite nu nar jag tanker pa den, och bilden har ovan aterspeglar innehallet sa himla bra.
nej, jag far ta en titt pa amazon och se om jag kan fa tag i bade boken och filmen.
