Tolleranza zero
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Tradotto da: Massimo Bocchiola
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Tolleranza zero è il viaggio allucinato e visionario nella mente delirante di Roy Strang, un giovane teppistello nato e cresciuto nei più degradati sobborghi di Edimburgo, caduto in coma dopo un maldestro tentativo di suicidio. Mentre intorno al suo letto d'ospedale si addensano le voci e le attenzioni di medici accaniti, infermiere fin troppo scrupolose e parenti molesti, Roy ondeggia tra i tormenti della sua vita passata – miseria, degrado, umiliazioni, violenze – e un altrove allucinato – un macabro safari africano – in cui si avventura a caccia del marabù, il temibile uccello predatore, incarnazione della malvagità pura e senza scopo.
Asciutto, violento, affilato come la lama di un coltello, il romanzo di Irvine Welsh è un lungo flashback, ora lucido, ora febbrile, intriso di ironia feroce e di cinismo disperato.
- ISBN: 8850261527
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 304
- Data di uscita: 09-09-2021
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Irvine Welsh was the literary hero among my generation of working-class Central Belt Scots for his graphic novels set in Edinburgh sink estates, riddled with sex, drugs, violence, and written in dextrously rendered phonetic dialect. I avoided reading Welsh, since a witless moron at my school rated T Leggi tutto
Turns out that Irvine Welsh is not a one-trick pony, he's a one and a half trick pony. He wowed us all with his filthy funny tales of Scottish smackheads in Trainspotting, one of the ALL time black comedies, they don't come any blacker or funnier, and then it was kind of - follow that. So this one d Leggi tutto
Stylistically this is Welsh's best work. Along with Glue it's the books of his that show him to be a really great writer who has much more up his sleeve than just drugs and violence (although he writes about these things so well, that it's not a bad thing when I say that). Why this book isn't one of Leggi tutto
In many ways, this book was brilliant: the structure of flitting between his coma state, memories of his childhood, and an African hunting fantasy. Also, the way he physically structures words on the page really conveys the polyphonic stream of consciousness of a person in a coma. And the Scottish p Leggi tutto
Mind. Blown. The angle of this story is incredible to begin with; a coma patient tell his story. Sometimes, he (Roy) slipps close to the surface and hears conversations or music around him, a level below that he recounts actual memories from his life, and even deeper, he hunts the metaphorical stork w Leggi tutto
This is typical Welsh—drugs, sex, scottish profanity straight from underbelly where everyone's a cunt and all they do is shag. Grislier than others, while not funny as Trainspotting/Renton series.
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