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Un libro che è «in una certa misura, la storia di una vita»; i capitoli come finestre di una grande casa, che regalano al lettore scorci folgoranti dei suoi abitanti, dei visitatori occasionali, di luci e atmosfere, senza tradirne l’ultimo e più intimo segreto.In Bruciare i giorni l’eccezionalità dell’esistenza di James Salter – cadetto di West Point, ufficiale dell’aeronautica militare,pilota di caccia, sceneggiatore – si fa romanzo e si dispiega in tutta la sua ricchezza,trasfigurata dalla potenza di una scrittura che illumina, scava, consuma quasi,esperienze, progetti, passioni. Vertiginosa è la varietà di scenari e paesaggi: New York, la Corea degli anni della guerra, Parigi vista con meraviglioso disincanto da espatriato, fino alla Roma di Pasolini e Laura Betti. E insieme agli amici e agli incontri che hanno ispirato i personaggi dei suoi libri, ci sono in queste pagine tutti i cieli e gli aeroplani, le feste, le mogli e le amanti: Salter sembra non poter fare a meno delle donne, per la loro bellezza e le promesse di felicità che nascondono. Costante è in lui l’anelito alla perfezione, all’immortalità, cui può aspirare solo chi non si sottrae alla sfida con il destino e con la caducità dell’esistenza e dei sentimenti umani. Il pilota che affronta l’aereo nemico nella solitudine del proprio abitacolo;l’amante che guarda l’oggetto del suo amore, o l’amore stesso, sfiorire; l’atleta che si prepara a una partita decisiva; lo scrittore in cerca d’ispirazione o in lotta con la pagina scritta. Che si tratti di Saint-Exupéry o di Ed White, di un Kerouac alle prime armi, di Irwin Shaw, di Faulkner odi ignoti compagni di scuola e ragazze di una sera, Salter ci rivela, evocandone il ricordo,tutto quel che può essere la vita, a saperla e volerla raccontare.
- ISBN: 8823520487
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 420
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“The difficulty, [Irwin Shaw] had told me at one point, was that I was a lyric and he a narrative writer.” If to no other book of Salter’s, Shaw’s description applies to Burning the Days , a loose, rambling “recollection” composed in fits and starts, accreted over many years. Salter’s glory is the an Leggi tutto
This is a memoir; it doesn’t even come close to being an autobiography. Presentation of events is not in chronological order. The readers gets only snippets here and there of the man’s life. He is in no way providing a general outline of his life. He is telling us of people he has met and those mome Leggi tutto
As long as the Jew endeavors to deny his nationality, while at the same time he is unable to deny his own individual existence, as long as he is unwilling to acknowledge that he belongs to that unfortunate and persecuted people, his false position must daily become more intolerable. ... In spite of
A colleague got me reading novels again after a long period by recommending "The Hunters." Not long afterward, I was reading "Solo Faces," stunned in both cases by Salter's crystal clear prose and the wrestling with themes of personal integrity. It has taken me a while to get round to his memoir "Bu Leggi tutto
James Salter calls his memoir a "recollection" as it is more a collection of scenes and episodes selected from throughout his life than it is a typical memoir. Published in 1997 when he was a youthful seventy-two it includes some fascinating vignettes of youth, middle age and beyond, all told with h Leggi tutto
I hope when I collapse and die in a restaurant in Rome, my mistress will be allowed to leave discreetly through the back door before the press arrives. More likely I will have a heart attack alone in an Arby's and some teenager will take a smart phone picture of my drained purplish face, smeared wit Leggi tutto
Once more, I am reading a book that I picked up initially on the recommendation of my late grandparents' journal entries. And once more, I have found a winner. This is a tremendously well-written book, and I say that not merely because Salter describes my grandfather (Robert Phelps) with such tender Leggi tutto
Burning the Days, a memoir by James Salter, can be divided into four parts. In Part I, Salter is the child of a wobbling marriage and follows his wobbling father to West Point, a college that doesn't make much sense for Salter...but he "falls in" and this leads to Part II, focused on Salter's life a Leggi tutto
Salter is totally one of the greats and can do something almost mystical with words that very few writers ever could, but i can't say i loved this. Maybe my fault, no one wants to play the blame game, but possibly Salter forgot to put any sense of his own personality in his recollections, his style
I recently reviewed the books I read last year. Some great stuff, but also too much “bookish junk food”. I’m committed to reading better this year. Some time ago I was wandering through a used bookstore in Manchester by the Sea and stumbled across Burning the Days, the memoir of the writer James Salt Leggi tutto
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