In Libreria
Sinossi
La confessione di uno studente che ricorda il suo primo amore, la seduzione di uno sconosciuto che fa riaffiorare la violenza paterna, la storia d'amore con uno straniero che apre e lenisce vecchie ferite: le relazioni, l'amore omosessuale, il sesso - esplicito, brutale, vero, indagato in tutte le sue sfumature - sono la bussola per questa discesa nelle zone più oscure e più luminose del desiderio. Il narratore di Purezza è un giovane espatriato che insegna in un'università americana a Sofia, in Bulgaria. Questo è solo uno degli elementi che lo rendono sempre in qualche modo straniero: omosessuale, figlio di un padre conservatore e violento che gli ha instillato un profondo disprezzo per se stesso, il narratore di Purezza fa i conti con una vita trasformata dalla scoperta e dalla perdita dell'amore.
- ISBN: 8806247735
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 200
- Data di uscita: 15-02-2022
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Update: my review for Guernica https://t.co/eVGFG3Fj0j What a book - audacious, innovative, sometimes disturbing, sometimes romantic. It feels like a short story collection but in many ways functions as a novel, or perhaps more like a symphony. The masterful center of CLEANNESS shows 3 vignettes from Leggi tutto
I have a hunch that this major release will be polarizing, which only speaks to its poetic power and daring structure - I am deeply impressed by Greenwell's achievement. At the heart, this is a story about a gay American teacher in Sofia, Bulgaria, who wins and loses the heart of a young man from Li Leggi tutto
“Anything I am you have use for is yours.” Why not start off this review by saying that Cleanness includes the most intense sex scene I’ve ever read? Cause there are quite a few descriptions of gay intimacy in this novel and they’re all rather...memorable. Now before we get to the rest of it there’s p Leggi tutto
Four years ago, Garth Greenwell published a debut novel about an American teacher who falls in love with a gay hustler in Bulgaria. “What Belongs to You” might have withered unnoticed in the weeds of literary fiction. Its plot was cramped, its setting dank, its characters obscure. But none of that m Leggi tutto
When I first had an inkling as a teenager that I might be gay (heaven forbid), I did the first thing that anybody in such a situation, and in their right mind, would do: I headed to the library. Remember that this was before the internet and Google search, so my hunt for ‘gay literature’ had to begi Leggi tutto
Some books are like dreams that vanish from the memory once they're finished. Others are more like physical places: I can call their geography to mind, I feel I could step back into them if I wanted. Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You, which I read in 2016, fits into the latter category. I've ret Leggi tutto
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