Questa è New York
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Tradotto da: MARIA BAIOCCHI
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Nato quasi per caso nel 1949 come articolo destinato a una rivista, Questa è New York ha avuto in sorte di diventare il libro più citato sulla città più famosa. Molti dei luoghi evocati non esistono più: la ferrovia sopraelevata della Terza Avenue, il carbonaio di quartiere che vendeva anche ghiaccio e legna, i saliscendi con i libri della Public Library, la vecchia sede della Metropolitan Opera, la Queen Mary con la sua lugubre sirena e il molo da cui salpava. Ma agli occhi del lettore di oggi questa vera e propria dichiarazione d’amore alla città simbolo dell’Occidente contemporaneo non potrà che suonare profetica e dunque attualissima: perché White sembra aver saputo esattamente quali quartieri della città sarebbero fioriti, quali invece scomparsi, come sarebbe insomma cambiata, per rimanere in fondo sempre la stessa, la sua New York.
- ISBN: 8811816793
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 64
- Data di uscita: 25-06-2020
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A love letter to NY - but the speculation about planes hitting buildings will haunt you; almost as if he could see something coming years before it happened on 9-11. Still find it hard to believe this is the same author of Charlotte's Web...so many versatile writers of the past that have been forgot Leggi tutto
There’s a newish independent bookshop not far from me. I’ve decided to do my little part in helping to keep it open. (If you know me well at all, you’ll know that’s not an onerous task in the least!) The first time I stepped through the door, the satisfying scent of fresh wood made me instantly cont Leggi tutto
I was born in New York City in 1951, moved out when I was two, and grew up in what at the time was a sleepy little village half an hour north, instantly turning my father into a member of what E. B. White calls the “second New York”—there are three New Yorks (pp. 25-26)—a commuter. In 1972, I moved Leggi tutto
"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." There's the first glorious sentence of the greatest New York book ever written. Yes, the competition is stiff, but this is it. You could underline this entire book, and I very nearly di Leggi tutto
Truth telling - I didn't read this edition. After reading Betsy Robinson's wonderful - and personal - review of the book ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ), I pulled Essays of E.B. White off the shelf where it's been sitting for too many years and read this essay. (Thanks for the kick in the Leggi tutto
An amazing small book. Highly readable and something to think about in our time of Covid and general discord. E. B. White, who we normally associate with Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, was asked by Horizon Magazine, an upscale travel magazine of the time, to write a piece about New York City. Th Leggi tutto
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