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Sinossi
Da anni, George Saunders è riconosciuto come una delle voci più originali e influenti della narrativa americana contemporanea, e un maestro nell'arte del racconto. "Dieci dicembre" è la sua opera che, senza rinunciare alla vena surreale e immaginifica, si avvicina di più al realismo. Accanto a racconti ambientati in laboratori dove si creano improbabili psicofarmaci, o in sobborghi residenziali dove donne moldave o filippine in abiti bianchi penzolano da fili tesi fra gli alberi come decorazioni, ci sono storie di famiglie comuni la cui normalità è turbata dal ritorno di un figlio dalla guerra o dall'irruzione di un malintenzionato: in tutti i casi, i personaggi si trovano a dover scegliere fra l'egoismo e la compassione, l'orgoglio e il sacrificio.
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- Pagine: 225
- Data di uscita: 20-09-2017
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The first and last stories in this book are, I think, masterpieces, and affected me more than I would have thought possible-- they're just short stories, after all. In the first one, a dreamy teenage girl is in her house, having fantasies about her own kindness and attractiveness. After only readi
my becoming-a-genius project, part 28! the background: i have decided to become a genius. to accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collected stories of various authors, reading + reviewing 1 story every day until i get bored / lose every single follower / am struck down by a vengeful de Leggi tutto
It's aggravating when all the critics turn out to be right and us readers just feel like we're trooping along behind them baa-ing and bleating obediently George Saunders go-o-o-o-d, Dan Brown ba-a-a-a-d . The cover of this book is festooned like a Chrismas tree with blurby simperings from Jonathan Fr Leggi tutto
the level of genius ain't sufficient to disguise the fact that most of these stories lack heart*. consider DFW and maureen mchugh, both of whom paint with roughly the same palette -- y'know, the pomo'ey, quirky, capitalism & consumerism, blahblahstuff-white-people-like-etcetcetc** -- but whose stori Leggi tutto
Saunders is not for me; he is cut from a cloth that I cannot comfortably wear. I would categorize him with Pynchon, Eggers, Donald Barthelme, de Lillo, David Foster Wallace, Thom Jones, and Ward Just. I just cannot get along with these authors, just like I cannot get along with certain types of musi Leggi tutto
One of the stories in this collection features experimental drugs that can enhance someone’s verbal ability to describe an event. I feel like I could use a few doses of that stuff to help me review this book because I’m struggling to articulate what I found so good about it. At a basic level, there Leggi tutto
You know those disconcerting dreams where nothing you can do will seem right; lose-lose propositions are the only ones on offer? Well George Saunders is the large deluxe pizza you ate before bed. He's the likely culprit. I started with a comment about Saunders himself because his stories, and collec Leggi tutto
“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it”--Saunders I know, I know, I should have been reading George Saunders for decades, but I just didn’t. Maybe a couple stories here and there. Oh, and his commencement address Leggi tutto
My second foray into Saunders after a lukewarm response to Pastoralia was an unprecedented success. His writing has sharpened its teeth and mellowed its heart and toned down its comedic chutzpah and the results are staggering pieces like ‘Escape From Spiderhead,’ a short moral parable that builds to Leggi tutto
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