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S'està carregant… The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novelde Giorgio De Maria
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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. Unsure what I really read here but I adored it and it got under my skin. ( ) I had high hopes for this book, having heard about it through one of John Coulthart’s frequent links, and then reminded of it from an article in the Verge (https://www.theverge.com/23863059/social-media-20-days-of-turin-giorgio-de-maria). Alas, it did not terrorize me the way others claimed it terrorized them. To be fair, it takes a lot for a book to get under my skin—perhaps a lack of imagination on my part, or the distancing effect of reading—and _Twenty Days_ has some interesting ideas and a nice sense of growing (and justified) paranoia. It is, I think, a bit Pynchonesque, but perhaps too short and vague to really build up to the level of creepiness that it could have reached. This book by Giorgio de Maria is a classic. On the face of it, the tale is simple - a man investigating the events in Turin many years ago. Someone set up a library in an asylum, and you have the diaries of people in the library. No one wants to talk of those days or speak of the library. As the book continues, a sense of menace and foreboding will go through you, and the author escapes at the end. Or, does he? Does he escape? What is he escaping from? You will never know. Can we escape from ourselves? We will never know. The writing is simple. Very simple. This simplicity masks the mastery of the writing. This book is relevant, scary, dystopian and a classic. Video review: https://youtu.be/fcYKKBo9Qnw Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the citys occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: whats shared can never be unshared. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)853.914Literature Italian and related languages Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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