Sinossi
Dennis - conosciuto da tutti come Spider, il "Ragno" - vive a Londra nella pensione della signora Wilkinson che, con i suoi strani ospiti, sa essere molto materna ma anche molto autoritaria. Vagando nella città grigia e cupa del dopoguerra, Dennis è tormentato da dolorose ossessioni e dal ricordo di un'esperienza sconvolgente, un terribile delitto, che l'ha portato a una lunga e traumatica permanenza in manicomio. Ogni giorno l'equilibrio in cui vive Spider diventa più instabile, facendolo sprofondare negli abissi di un'oscura follia. Patrick McGrath ci trascina in un viaggio inquietante nella mente del suo protagonista, in cui passato e presente, realtà e immaginazione si confondono inesorabilmente. Da questo libro è stato tratto il film omonimo di David Cronenberg interpretato da Ralph Fiennes.
- ISBN: 8834603850
- Casa Editrice: La nave di Teseo
- Pagine: 224
- Data di uscita: 16-07-2020
Recensioni
Sometimes there is a book you just know you’re going to love; it can lurk on the edges of your consciousness for years, remaining unread, but persisting as something to look forward to. Spider is one of those books for me. I had always thought I would love it, and happily, I did – although ‘happily’ Leggi tutto
I’ve always found it odd that I can recall incidents from my boyhood with clarity and precision begins Dennis Cleg, the protagonist and narrator of Spider , and yet events that happened yesterday are blurred, and I have no confidence in my ability to remember them accurately at all. Dennis writes dow Leggi tutto
This is my second book by Patrick McGrath, the first being Asylum which I really really liked and preferred to this one. Having said that, it has nothing to do with the writing, which is so good, rather the storyline didn`t hold my interest as much and I wasn`t longing to get back to the book whenev Leggi tutto
I can't recall where I first heard about this book but a brief glance at the synopsis (a man wandering the streets struggling with his mental illness) appealed to my natural inclination for nihilistic literature. But the book wasn't quite what I thought it would be. Yes, the main character (Dennis C Leggi tutto
Spider is one of those neurotic, solitary and nervous narrators, a bit like the protagonist in Suskind's The Pigeon or Hermann Ungar's The Maimed. He's incredibly unreliable and as the novel advances he grows increasingly frenzied as truths from the past bubble up in his warped memory. Although we g Leggi tutto
While the US has Stephen King, the UK has Patrick McGrath. Not quite the same, but many of McGrath's books are forays into a deviant reality, enough to nominate him as the lord of the macabre. In this book, the prose is exquisitely eerie and convincing, bringing the reader into the mind of a truly d Leggi tutto
Adoor! Una din preferatele mele ever, clar! 🤭💚
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