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Sinossi
New York, anni cinquanta. Dopo la pubblicazione di un romanzo mendace e offensivo sulla sua vita, il ricchissimo finanziere Andrew Bevel, diventato milionario dopo alcune speculazioni seguite al crollo in Borsa del '29, assume la giovane Ida Partenza, figlia di un anarchico italiano, perché lo aiuti a scrivere un'autobiografia in grado di raccontare finalmente la verità sui suoi successi e sulla sua defunta moglie, Mildred. Ida intuisce presto che nemmeno dalla sua penna, strettamente controllata dal committente, uscirà il ritratto fedele di una donna complessa la cui reale personalità continua a sfuggirle, e la morte improvvisa di Bevel la costringe infine a lasciare incompleto il lavoro. Soltanto trent'anni dopo ha la possibilità di accedere agli archivi della Fondazione Bevel, dove trova finalmente il diario di Mildred, prezioso tassello mancante all'enigma che ha lasciato nella sua vita un'impronta indelebile. Quattro testi, quattro generi letterari, quattro voci, quattro punti di vista compongono un raffinato gioco di specchi in cui dietro le scelte di un leggendario uomo d'affari americano si intravede la figura polimorfa e affascinante di una moglie, artefice misconosciuta della sua fortuna.
- ISBN: 8807034956
- Casa Editrice: Feltrinelli
- Pagine: 384
- Data di uscita: 14-06-2022
Recensioni
Trust holds a lot of promise, but it just didn't work for me. The novel consists of four parts - a novel-within-a-novel, sketches of an autobiography, a memoir, and a journal. Each successive entry peels back a layer of the story to ultimately reveal the truth behind the original novel. It sounds gr Leggi tutto
Sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a story. Elegantly written. Feels like an homage to Edith Wharton. Truly though, this is just sublime.
On the upside, I learned the word "dipsomania." I went into the novel with huge stores of leftover goodwill from reading In the Distance . I also loved the idea of reading multiple rashomon-like reveals and revelations, and I read along in the beginning with great anticipation, and tried to retain my Leggi tutto
Joint Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2023 with the equally simplistic Demon Copperhead Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Listen, God knows I was all here for a four-part experimental novel about American finance and wealth, the cover showing 30 Rock under a snow globe/glass dome of a stock ticker wi Leggi tutto
This brilliant metafiction book is about a lot of things, but among the most prominent is the bending and aligning of reality according to one’s mistakes so it ceases to be a mistake. What are the fictions that compose our identity? Or do our lives eventually become the written and verbal fictions t Leggi tutto
Joint winner of the Pulitzer Prize Which doesn’t suggest American fiction is in a very healthy state. Trust by Hernan Diaz has an interesting, and in some respects brave, structure, albeit one that many readers have commented seems to have been borrowed from Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, which is perh Leggi tutto
Hernan Diaz’s new book, “Trust,” is about an early-20th-century investor. Or at least it seems to be. Everything about this cunning story makes a mockery of its title. The only certainty here is Diaz’s brilliance and the value of his rewarding book. Though framed as a novel, “Trust” is actually an in Leggi tutto
”One’s reality is another’s delusion.” In the complexities of human perception, one's reality often serves as the elusive counterpart to another's delusion. We all grapple with the fine balance between subjectivity and the quest for objective truth, assuming one believes in its existence. ”Trust” is a Leggi tutto
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