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기자와 PD로 오랜 세월 일해 온 작가의 늦깎이 데뷔작인 이 소설은 인구 900만의 스웨덴에서 100만 부, 전 세계적으로 1000만 부 이상 팔리며 <백 세 노인 현상>을 일으켰다. 한국에서도 2014년 최대의 베스트셀러가 될 정도로 선풍을 일으켰다.
『창문 넘어 도망친 100세 노인』은 1905년 스웨덴의 한 시골 마을에서 태어난 주인공이 살아온 백 년의 세월을 코믹하고도 유쾌하게 그린 작품이다. 급변하는 현대사의 주요 장면마다 본의 아니게 끼어들어 역사의 흐름을 바꿔 놓는 주인공의 활약은 독자로 하여금 역사의 생생한 현장 속으로 빨려 들어가게 한다. 계속되는 우연과 과장스러운 설정이 때로는 황당하게 느껴지기도 하지만, 쉴 새 없이 터지는 웃음 속에서도 어느새 이데올로기란 무엇인지, 종교란 무엇인지, 그리고 우리의 인생이란 무엇인지 곰곰 생각하게 되는, 가볍게 읽히지만 여운은 묵직한 작품이다.
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Although the story concludes nicely, I found the skipping around between present-day adventures and the historical fiction chapters, to be quite jarring.
Just as I was gaining interest and settling into a style of chapter, suddenly it would end and I would have to readjust again and again.
Eventually I got sick of the historical fiction chapters and skipped them, so that I could reach the conclusion of the present-day story.
In conclusion, worth a read. However this is one book, trying to be two books at the same time.
If you aren't bothered by skipping around in timeliness and stories that are irrelevant to the main story, then it should be an enjoyable read.
I don't know about you, but reading the title made me believe this book would be a humorous, silly little adventure of an old man running away from the old folks home. It was not humorous and it was not silly. Why is this not listed as historical fiction? Most of the book was spent in the past where the main character interacts with multiple historical figures, all of which was extremely boring and dull. I think it was a mistake to add this to the book rather than focusing on the adventure he takes. Where is the character depth for the group he ends up traveling with? We learn bits and pieces about them, sure, but how are we meant to care anything about them when we rarely see them? Plus, they all go along with the adventure so easily."Hey, here's what happened, wanna join?" "Yeah okay, sure." That's basically what happens. There's no personality for these characters, no reason to care about them at all. And the one character - the main character - that we learn about is told through flashbacks to the past dealing with war, politics and historical figures. It's boring as hell and I was so tempted to skip those parts.I didn't care about what happened in the past. I cared about what he was doing in the present, what his plan was. I wanted funny shenanigans. I wanted to see the main characters interact with each other more than a handful of times. As is stands, I don't have a single fuck to spare for any of them because they weren't sold to me. They were just kind of... there for plot purposes.Maybe if the historical events were mentioned instead of told through more than half the book, it wouldn't have been so boring. It goes in depth, though, telling all the details of his life from the moment he was a child. I feel like the author tried to take two stories and mash them together and it just didn't work. Is this supposed to be a historical fiction about a 100 year old man's life? Or is this supposed to be a quirky, funny story about a 100 year old man who ran away and got up to law-breaking shit?It fails on both ends because it tries too hard to be both. It's like not being sure if you're supposed to go left or right so you choose to go down the middle in the dirt.