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Famous Last Words

Timothy Findley

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 1606 Users | 79 Reviews

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Title	:	Famous Last Words
Author	:	Timothy Findley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	August 20th 2001 by Faber Faber (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption.

Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.

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Original Title:	Famous Last Words
ISBN:	057120905X (ISBN13: 9780571209057)
Edition Language:	English

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I gather book recommendations in a fairly indiscriminate fashion, from friends, family, acquaintances, strangers Im introduced to at weddings, other books, libraries, social media, blogs, newspapers, etc. Ive been doing so for many years. As a consequence, there are books on my To Read list that trigger no memory of why I ever intended to read them, let alone who recommended them to me. Famous Last Words is one such mystery. I think its been on the list (in its various forms) for at least eight

This is an interesting and strange book that is in part an alternative historical fiction about fascists in the 30s, and in part the story of soldiers right at the end of WW2 having to think about the unthinkable in the wake of Auschwitz -- except both of those summaries are inadequate to the book, which is not so straightforward. I am really not certain how to write about it properly, and I think that I see a little what Findley was concerned with in it, but I am not sure I really understood

Like Doctorow's Ragtime, Findley's Famous Last Words is a historiographic metafiction (the term is from Linda Hutcheon, an authority on postmodern literature) in which intertextual and historical characters are found on the same diegetic plane. In this instance, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a character from a poem by Ezra Pound, interacts with such historic persons as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Charles Lindbergh and Hitler.

Overall, a good story. The story's lead narrator, Hugh Mauberly, provided an interesting character in that his character was undefined as either good or evil. That determination was left to the individual reader. I didn't find him likable or particularly interesting and it was only his witness to interesting events that made him relevant to the narrative. There was enough action overall to keep the pacing throughout the book although I did find by the end I had the inclination to skip chunks of

Amazing novel... Extremely well researched and therefore a very convincing (fictional) story. I read it a few months after I had seen the film The King's Speech, which made the book an even more interesting read.

Timothy Findleys Famous Last Words was not, as I first thought it to be when saw it from among the other books in the second-hand bookstore, about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.The novel opens with Hugh Selwyn Mauberleys childhood experience of witnessing his own fathers dive to the earth from a hotel roof in Boston. His name is name appropriated from a 1920 collection of poems by Ezra Pound. As the plot unfolds, we are taken to Mauberleys own final resting place in a hotel room high in the

This was a lot of fun to read after watching The Crown, since it is a fictionalized retelling of the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of York and their relationship to Nazi Germany and the secret cabal that attempted to take control of Europe during the Second World War, as told by a character made up by Ezra Pound.