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Da Dublino a New York e Londra, tanti sono i temi, gli sfondi, i personaggi che animano le vicende di questa raccolta di struggenti storie irlandesi, ma sono soprattutto i sentimenti e la difficoltà di viverli nella quotidianità i veri protagonisti. Fra commozione e umorismo nero, squarci di inaspettata poesia e crudo realismo, Joseph O’Connor ridisegna una geometria dell’animo: i sogni infranti della gioventù e il confronto tra generazioni in un’Irlanda travolta dalla crisi economica, l’irrimediabile impotenza di fronte alla vita che sfugge o che d’improvviso si svuota di senso, l’amore che imprevedibilmente si fa strada dove ormai c’erano solo freddezza e diffidenza, la solitudine sempre in agguato, ma anche l’ironia che alleggerisce le situazioni più disperate. La prosa asciutta dell’autore traccia otto affreschi vividi e disincantati, ferite aperte di un’umanità disorientata e confusa, ma più che mai autentica.
- ISBN: 882350919X
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 320
- Data di uscita: 03-04-2014
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I had a love hate relationship with this book. It contains 7 short stories and also a novella made up of 8 short chapters. I like O'Connor best when he writes historical fiction and loved the short story 'Orchard Street: Dawn'. I also liked 'The Wexford Girl'. Each of these was fresh, unique, insigh Leggi tutto
Thought I would read this as a direct contrast to Margaret Drabble already I love O'Connor's vernacular. More anon. This is a storyteller in the Irish tradition right enough. The stories set in Dublin, London and New York are full of romance and hardship, love and loss. O'Conner is a passionate lyri Leggi tutto
These are often quite sad stories mainly about men, their emotions, relationships and loneliness. The descriptions of the Irish psyche are excellent and the conversations leap off the page as if you are there yourself. Very good read.
quelques passages émouvants mais ça parle quand-même trop d'histoires de fesses à mon goût
Very very depressing.
I enjoyed all the stories and the writing but for some reason I didn’t rush to pick it up to read the next story. May have scored higher if read at a different time.
This is, by far, one of the most beautiful collection of short stories i have ever had the pleasure of reading. It's elegant & delicate with the stories pulling you in from the first page. The best is Orchard Street, Dawn which is poignantly bleak and desolately sad and is sure to bring a lump to yo Leggi tutto
Eddie Virago doesn't deserve another outing but O'Connor's comic creation is before us again in the opening story of this collection. But this misstep aside, the rest of this collection is a poignant pleasure. There is something so sad at the heart of most of these pieces: bereavement and mis-commun Leggi tutto
This is beautifully written, but I fear that some of the stories lack individual definition. Therefore the effect can be quite repetitive. There are some cracking moments in it, notably The Wexford Girl.
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