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S'està carregant… Spring (2019)de Ali Smith
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. La primavera. En Richard plora la pèrdua de la seva amiga, la Paddy. Ella entenia el món molt millor que ell i ara no sap com sho farà sense ella. La Florence i la Brittany s´han trobat en les condicions més estranyes. Tots viatgen cap al nord, a la profunditat d'Escòcia, on potser trobaran el bri verd més fi que començarà a trencar la roca. Després de l'Hivern arriba Primavera, una primavera més fosca, més directa i més lluminosa. Una crítica a l'ésser humà, a les relacions entre ells i amb el món que habiten. Ali Smith és una de les escriptores més importants i provocadores en llengua anglesa i ha guanyat premis tan prestigiosos com el Costa Book Award, el Folio Prize, el Baileys o el Goldsmith. Recentment, ha rebut el Premi Llibreter amb el primer llibre del quartet estacional, Tardor.
Like its two predecessors this dynamic novel captures the many turmoils of life in the contemporary U.K. through ecstatic language and indirect narrative collisions. The first third, set mostly on a Scottish train platform, concerns Richard Lease, an over-the-hill TV and film director mourning his recently deceased collaborator, Paddy. Rife with nuanced reflections on the nature of art and mourning, Richard's ruminative section is the book's most immediate and engaging. After Richard lowers himself into the path of an oncoming train, readers meet his would-be rescuer, Brit, a security guard at a migrant detention facility. Brit has been lured into an impromptu journey by Florence, a pseudo-messianic young girl seemingly capable of inspiring empathy in even the darkest of hearts. The three mismatched characters are soon traveling together, on their way to an old battlefield where the violences of yesteryear and the present day will converge. As was the case with Autumn and Winter, the novel's setting is its foremost strength and increasingly enervating flaw, leading to writing that alternately astounds and exasperates. About three-quarters of the way through the third quarter of this series, the book's most memorable character, Richard, provides a relevant description of the whole enterprise, a response for every season: Gimmicky, but impressive all the same. This is a novel that contains multitudes, and the wonder is that Smith folds so much in, from visionary nature writing to Twitter obscenities, in prose that is so deceptively relaxed. Pertany a aquestes sèriesSeasonal (3) Té un suplementPremisDistincions
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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