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Come la Parigi di Baudelaire, la Londra di Eliot e la Berlino di Döblin, la New York di Dos Passos è un universo esiziale, realistico e fantastico al tempo stesso: la città - caleidoscopio di colori, suoni, odori - è un essere vivente fatto di nervi e cuore, un organismo che mette al mondo i propri figli, li cresce ma allo stesso tempo brama di divorarli. "Manhattan Transfer", romanzo lirico e visionario, è opera di linguaggio, di stile, di scrittura ma è anche una riflessione sulla condizione dell'uomo nella metropoli, un romanzo politico sui guasti della ricerca assoluta del profitto, un balletto cui partecipano decine di personaggi e i cui protagonisti si agitano e si perdono nell'ansia di stare al passo con la città fulcro del Secolo Breve.
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- Pagine: 481
- Data di uscita: 26-11-2014
Recensioni
I’m going to pull a GJ (Ginnie Jones) here and state: ”Manhattan Transfer is a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in the first two decades of the 20th century that follows the changing fortunes of more than a dozen characters as they strive to make sense out of the chaos of modern urban existen Leggi tutto
This novel is very caleidoscopic and switches from one storyline to another very rapidly which makes it hard to follow sometimes. In the end all characters seem to flow in and out of each other. Maybe it was meant that way. It does give a very vivid sense of life in New York city in that era.
I've first read this classic ages ago, and now re-read it for a scientific paper on Arbeit , a city novel that depicts contemporary life in Berlin and was inspired by "Manhattan Transfer". What I love about both novels is that they achieve to show the big city both as a moloch and a melting pot; as a Leggi tutto
How can there be explained the complicated and fascinating relationship between the city and the narrator in all major Modernist works with themes focused on urbanity? Think of James Joyce’s Dublin, dull and suffocating, with its Evelyns forever clued on the shore they dare not leave. Think of Henry Leggi tutto
1η δημοσίευση, Book Press: https://bookpress.gr/kritikes/xeni-pe... Κάθε σύγχρονη Μητρόπολη είναι στη βάση της ένας υπερμεγέθης μηχανισμός, μια πολυδαίδαλη οντότητα, θαρρείς αυτοτελής, η οποία παραπέμπει στις κατασκευές με γρανάζια που λειτουργούν ερήμην του δημιουργού τους, βγαλμένη από δυστοπική ται Leggi tutto
It might be difficult to understand this novel if you've never lived in a large city. Dos Passos captures the chaos and disorientation of trying to survive in an urban battlefield, with all its violence, interruptions, temptations, anonymity, stimuli, and speed by writing in a still experimental mod Leggi tutto
Καπνίζει ευτυχισμένος. Δεν δείχνει να θυμάται τίποτα, δεν υπάρχει μέλλον, υπάρχει μόνο το τυλιγμένο στην ομίχλη ποτάμι και το πορθμείο, που προβάλλει τεράστιο με τα φώτα του στη σειρά, σαν νέγρικο χαμόγελο. Πρόζα για το μεγάλο μήλο, και για τον 20ο αιώνα. Υπέροχη πρόζα για την προσπάθεια της νέας ζωή Leggi tutto
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