Enigma
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Tradotto da: Lucrezia Giorgi
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Questo straordinario memoir è il racconto di un percorso transgender compiuto all’inizio degli anni ’70. Perché James Morris – ufficiale dell’esercito durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, celebrato giornalista, avventuroso scrittore di viaggi – è diventato Jan? La risposta è semplice: fin dall’infanzia, James si era sentito in un corpo “sbagliato”, non-femminile. E, arrivato a quarant’anni, dopo aver avuto cinque figli dall’amatissima moglie Elizabeth, ben consapevole del processo fisicamente ed emotivamente doloroso che lo aspettava, aveva deciso che era giunto il momento di prendere possesso del suo “vero” corpo.
Come ha affrontato le sfide di questa decisione? Come ha vissuto il suo ruolo pubblico, sotto i costanti riflettori della curiosità – spesso morbosa – dei media? Cosa ne è stato della sua famiglia? Ma, soprattutto, quanta forza e quanta follia ha dovuto avere per diventare completamente sé stessa? In queste pagine viscerali, eleganti e attualissime, dal respiro ora letterario e spirituale, ora quotidiano e concreto, l’enigma di Jan emerge in tutta la sua forza, provoca e fa riflettere ancora oggi.
- ISBN: 8833212416
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 208
- Data di uscita: 01-11-2024
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I'm surprised that there isn't more talk about this book, especially during Pride Month. Written in 1974, it is one of the first books that discusses what it means to be trans. It is much less outdated than people say and surprises with the naturalness of the transition from male to female during th Leggi tutto
Understanding my identity as a transwoman came about for me in the late 2000's, and thus most of what I read and learned from was on the internet and not set down in ink and binding. Of the trans memoirs I've held in my hands, this ties with Jamison Green's Becoming a Visible Man as my favorite. Whe Leggi tutto
What a story! Superficially it's a tale of gender affirmation. But so much more. It's revelatory to hear how author Morris came to understand that she was in the wrong body. But during the many years of what she calls her conundrum, she joins the army, travels widely, marries and fathers five childr Leggi tutto
The book as a whole is primarily of interest for historical reasons, and the second half is largely a desperate attempt to reassure a patriarchal society that her transition was no threat to it. That's an understandable response to the pressures Ms. Morris must have been under in her time and place, Leggi tutto
I wouldn't normally read this type of book as I'm not particularly interested in transgenders but after reading "Mad Honey" by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult, I was intrigued enough to do so. I hadn't realised that Jan Morris was in fact James Morris, the celebrated Welsh historian, author a Leggi tutto
A memoir of transness written before gender affirmation became a heavily politicized issue. A window into another world. Clear, occasionally provocative, and always beautiful. (If you decide to pick this one up, be aware that the perspectives in this memoir are very much Of Their Time and can get unc Leggi tutto
An amazing book, which I first read in 1974, when it was published to a surprised world, and then again four years later, as this paperback. It deserves a review, but this is a temporary note as Jan Morris has just died today, 20.11.20, aged 94. RIP Jan Morris.
