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Nell'Ispettorato Ascensori di una grande metropoli, cresciuta impetuosamente verso l'alto con i suoi mille grattacieli, arriva Lila Watson, prima ispettrice donna e di colore. Lila è la più celebre e affidabile esponente della scuola degli "intuizionisti". Quando ispezionano gli ascensori, gli intuizionisti non usano manuali e utensili: li sentono. Quando un ascensore controllato da Lila precipita, per la scuola avversaria - quella degli "empiristi" - è una ghiotta occasione. Ma Lila non ha mai sbagliato un collaudo ed è certa di essere vittima di un sabotaggio. Indaga clandestinamente sull'incidente, fino a scoprire un segreto capace di rimettere in discussione la sua vita e il futuro dell'intera metropoli.
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- Pagine: 278
- Data di uscita: 03-09-2019
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Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist is a mystery about…elevator inspectors? Or is it about an ideological conflict between opposing schools of elevator theory (the Empiricists and the Intuitionists) which surfaces when an elevator deemed safe by elevator inspector, Lila Mae Watson (an Intuitionist) Leggi tutto
This book was recommended to me off a list. I read some reviews before I dove in. Some said "it's about elevators" others said "it's all about race". Well...they're both kind of right, but I think they've missed the point. This is an excellent book. It's an old fashioned murder mystery wrapped in a
In an interview with Salon.com following the publication of his 1999 debut novel The Intuitionist , Colson Whitehead discusses the freedom he has as an African American writer of the late 20th century. He says, "decades ago, there was the protest novel, and then there was 'tell the untold story, find Leggi tutto
A seriously strange read. It seems that there are 2 ways to check an elevator's safety: Intuitionist and Empiricist ones. Basically, the elevators are central thing to the plot: theoretical elevators, the history of elevators, etc etc etc. Way too much importance is put on the protagonist's race: I'v Leggi tutto
This is a great first novel by celebrated writer Colson Whitehead, in which an alternate faction of elevater workers are involved in racism, dirty polatics and the mob. The black woman who is the inspecter of elevaters and an intuitionists, is drawn into it all where she learns a secret. I recommend Leggi tutto
This isn't just an allegory of race, as the many glowing reviews in the prefatory pages state. It's an allegory of everything. "Elevators" and "intuitionism" variously represent upward social mobility and its limits, the threatened gains of the civil rights movement, the anxiety of a post-rational w Leggi tutto
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