Sinossi
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- Pagine: 554
- Data di uscita: 29-10-1997
Recensioni
Amarcord Liegi Rispetto agli altri suoi romanzi, dove a Simenon sono sufficienti poche sapienti pennellate per trascinarci nel cuore della narrazione, in questo caso occorre dotarsi di una dose maggiore di pazienza e disponibilità per entrare in sintonia col complesso mondo ricreato sulla pagina dal Leggi tutto
Read this book with a map of Liège in one hand. It is really the story of that city, from the perspective of three generations of the Mamelin-Peters family, and it is filled with specific references to named streets and other local landmarks. And at the same time, this highly autobiographical novel Leggi tutto
This book has no real plot and has one key story line that starts, meanders for a while and then abruptly stops. But I loved it. My edition has a forward that describes it as a "clockwork miniature" of a town in Belgium, Lieges, and that's exactly what it is. A European city seen through the eyes of Leggi tutto
I should have gotten around to this review soon after finishing the read - but instead I let a-few-too-many-days go by, and the misery that is our current world grabbed hold of me. It's like Joni Mitchell sang over 50 years ago: "They won't give peace a chance - that was just a dream some of us had. Leggi tutto
Se le autobiografie sono di per se' stesse un campo minato, quelle scritte in forma romanzata sono spesso ancor piu' problematiche. Quando prendono piede da una lettera ai posteri, al figlio, come nel caso di Simenon, risentono a mio parere del peccato originale di essere involontariamente troppo e
"Elise had a congenital fear of causing people trouble. She had never dared to occupy the whole of a chair." He's brilliant about Elise, his mum. I loved her. The poor thing lives in absolute fear of everything for 500 pages. Other elements weren't quite as brilliant. The terrorist, and then Leopold, Leggi tutto
A largely autobiographical novel peering through the difficulties of life in Liege at the beginning of the last century by charting the story of a family, with all the unpalatable resentments, jealousies, pettiness, sour disappointment with a life that is not taking the right turns that can go on un Leggi tutto
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