Hardcover, 203 pages
English language
Published July 30, 1962 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book has won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters—Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe—embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to save the Murrys' father and the world. The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness, and good and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey. The novel wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness. It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murrys and Calvin O'Keefe. L'Engle modeled the Murry family on her own. Scholar Bernice …
A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book has won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters—Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe—embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to save the Murrys' father and the world. The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness, and good and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey. The novel wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness. It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murrys and Calvin O'Keefe. L'Engle modeled the Murry family on her own. Scholar Bernice E. Cullinan noted that L'Engle created characters who "share common joy with a mixed fantasy and science fiction setting." The novel's scientific and religious undertones are therefore highly reflective of the life of L'Engle.The book has inspired two film adaptations, both by Disney: a 2003 television film directed by John Kent Harrison, and a 2018 theatrical film directed by Ava DuVernay.
No sé si ponerle un 3 o un 4. Creo que le pondré 4 por ahora.
This didn't hold up for me, compared to my childhood experience reading it. Now, I'd probably rate it slightly below 3. The version to which I listened was narrated by the author (not a positive, in this case).
This didn't hold up for me, compared to my childhood experience reading it. Now, I'd probably rate it slightly below 3. The version to which I listened was narrated by the author (not a positive, in this case).
Afraid it hasn't aged very well. Plus, the tangential anti-communist and religious undertones were kind of a turn off to me. But I guess in context it's more forgivable.
Afraid it hasn't aged very well. Plus, the tangential anti-communist and religious undertones were kind of a turn off to me. But I guess in context it's more forgivable.
I had high hopes for this, but was ultimately disappointed.
There is a theme of taking responsibility and going above and beyond the call of duty which to my mind contrasts poorly with the occasional interjections of "put your faith in God and everything will turn out all right". I find that the allusions to the science suffer from the same kind of metaphysical waffling. Supposedly Meg's father is a brilliant physicist, but tessering and tesseract is presented as something he and his colleagues have just stumbled upon and have no real idea of how it would work. I'm not expecting hard sci-fi and/or a physics essay in the middle of a children's or YA novel, but to my mind A Wrinkle in Time misrepresents scientists and the way they work.
Another thing I found unsatisfactory was the rather abrupt ending, where Meg after rescuing Charles Wallace is transported directly …
I had high hopes for this, but was ultimately disappointed.
There is a theme of taking responsibility and going above and beyond the call of duty which to my mind contrasts poorly with the occasional interjections of "put your faith in God and everything will turn out all right". I find that the allusions to the science suffer from the same kind of metaphysical waffling. Supposedly Meg's father is a brilliant physicist, but tessering and tesseract is presented as something he and his colleagues have just stumbled upon and have no real idea of how it would work. I'm not expecting hard sci-fi and/or a physics essay in the middle of a children's or YA novel, but to my mind A Wrinkle in Time misrepresents scientists and the way they work.
Another thing I found unsatisfactory was the rather abrupt ending, where Meg after rescuing Charles Wallace is transported directly home with her father and Calvin, though the latter two were left on a strange planet when Meg went on her rescue mission. There is also the unresolved matter of the entity they were fighting which still seems to have it's claws in or on earth and Camazotz. I understand that it's part of a series but my impression is that it was originally a stand-alone novel.
I wish I had read this as a kid, but I never did. In fact, I somehow managed to not hear much about it but the title. I think the title was the problem, actually. My mind focused on the "wrinkle" part and for some reason I imagined an old woman's wrinkled face. I remember hearing other kids say they liked it in childhood, but nobody had ever said any more about it. I finally read this book in the last couple years after finally reading about the author and figuring out that it wasn't really about an old woman, and it was beautiful. I wish I'd read it sooner!
I wish I had read this as a kid, but I never did. In fact, I somehow managed to not hear much about it but the title. I think the title was the problem, actually. My mind focused on the "wrinkle" part and for some reason I imagined an old woman's wrinkled face. I remember hearing other kids say they liked it in childhood, but nobody had ever said any more about it. I finally read this book in the last couple years after finally reading about the author and figuring out that it wasn't really about an old woman, and it was beautiful. I wish I'd read it sooner!
