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Ha passato una vita a raccontare storie vere, a girare documentari che ne hanno fatto un'icona, al punto che in Canada, dove risiede da decenni, Leonard Fife è considerato una sorta di monumento nazionale. Il suo primo lavoro ha smascherato la collusione tra il governo canadese e quello americano allo scopo di testare il famigerato Agent Orange. La sua ultima intervista dovrebbe essere la celebrazione di una vita straordinaria. L'amata moglie Emma, i suoi allievi, i suoi tecnici sono riuniti al suo capezzale per ascoltare, dalle sue labbra, come abbia cambiato il cinema documentario. Ma Fife, seppure posto davanti alla macchina da presa e non dietro, finisce per appropriarsene. E quella che racconta per la prima volta è la sua vera storia. Muovendosi agile nel tempo, ricostruisce la trama di fughe e tradimenti, di bugie e viltà che ne hanno fatto l'uomo che è, una sorta di eroe. Un'immagine idealizzata che Fife è deciso a distruggere.
- ISBN: 8806250477
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 368
- Data di uscita: 30-08-2022
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2.5 stars When I finish reading a book , I’m almost always sure of what I think about it, how I feel about it . I can say that I didn’t really like this book, but it’s not as simple as that. It’s the story of a pitiful man, a famed documentary film maker in the last moments of his life, dying of can Leggi tutto
I really liked the first part of Foregone. The story is told from the perspective of Leo, a documentary film maker, as a documentary is being made of him, as he is dying of cancer. His mind wanders. He seems intent on telling truths that no one knows but it’s not clear what is true and what he is im Leggi tutto
In this audacious—dare I say brilliant?—new work, Russell Banks’ character, Leo Fife—a documentary filmmaker just inches away from death—shines the spotlight on himself and what has been left unsaid. The conceit is that Fife, with days remaining in his life, allows his acolyte, Malcolm MacLeod, to re Leggi tutto
There is no rhyme or reason to pandemic reading. I have struggled getting into any serious fiction lately. I have quit many more Banks novels than I've finished (before today I'd only finished one) and I have basically sworn off the subgenre of Books About Dying Men. And yet I finished this in less
During a career stretching almost half a century, Russell Banks has published an extraordinary collection of brave, morally imperative novels. The same marrow-delving impulse runs through them all, but otherwise it would be difficult to characterize such a vast and diverse body of work. Ranging acro Leggi tutto
Inside a luxury apartment in Montreal with the windows blacked out, Leo Fife is living his last, being filmed by a protege. In a method that he himself developed in his career as a documentarian, he is surrounded by darkness only lit by a Speedlight illuminating his face. But as the memories surface Leggi tutto
Warning: I just read a book about a man sharing his memories as he dies of cancer, and I hated it. Hence, this review is not going to be nice. Let me theorize, based more on hunches than evidence: an embarrassing amount of 20th Century American literature is about rites of passage in the lives of up Leggi tutto
Foregone, as dictionary definition: 1) that has gone before; previous; past. 2) determined in advance; inevitable. Both those definitions categorically apply to Russell Banks’ latest novel, a story of the past, present and the inevitable. Banks’ use of the lexicon is searing and powerful; every page Leggi tutto
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