Sinossi
La prima raccolta di racconti di Amy Hempel fu pubblicata a metà degli anni Ottanta, quando la scena letteraria americana vide un inaspettato rinascimento della forma del racconto con l'arrivo di voci quali Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Jay McInerney, grazie anche al lavoro dell'editor Gordon Lish, il maestro della limatura, della riduzione, della semplicità stilistica. Ma la prosa di Amy Hempel è più facilmente assimilabile a quella di alcune "maestre", da Cynthia Ozick a Grace Paley, ad Alice Munro. I suoi personaggi, feriti, irrequieti, non meno tragici di quelli di Carver, non si lasciano distruggere da avvenimenti imprevisti e inevitabili, da errori e scelte sbagliate. Hanno infatti imparato a contare su piccoli trionfi quotidiani di umorismo e ironia per trasformare le cicatrici in ragioni per continuare a vivere; e ad attingere alla riserva di forza dell'animo femminile, fatta di sincerità, capacità di emozione e di relazione, non solo con le persone ma con il mondo animale, o vegetale.
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- Pagine: 380
- Data di uscita: 10-01-2019
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This is one of those books that has you rereading sentences over and over again, not because you couldn't parse their basic meaning, but because you suspect that a second reading will glean another, more subtle bit of information. It will also make you want to own a dog. It will also have you fallin Leggi tutto
I never quite loved these stories. The closer to the heart she writes the better I liked her but she doesn't do this enough. And when she's not writing from the heart she often teeters close to pretentiousness - Anais Nin gets a name check which is a red flag for me. She also seems to have aspiratio Leggi tutto
Amy Hempel is a master of the sentence, as well as under-statement. She can create paragraphs that pack more emotional sentiment than entire novels. Part of this is her ability to render the verisimilitude of a moment and place it directly into her character's eyes. She can also be funny and sarcast Leggi tutto
It'd been a while since I reread the entirety of Hempel's Collected . There are certain stories I revisit with regularity—"In the Cemetery...," "Today Will Be a Quiet Day," "The Harvest," "The Most Girl Part of You," "The Dog of the Marriage"—but I felt an urge to go through them all again, and I'm s Leggi tutto
i kind of just want to copy one of her stories and so that's what i'm going to do. her stories are pretty short and this may be the shortest of them all. it's called: "The Man in Bogata" The police and emergency service people fail to make a dent. The voice of the pleading spouse does not have the hop Leggi tutto
I know it's a cliche, but some of these stories just took my breath away. "In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is buried" is just extraordinary, but there are at least a half a dozen other stories which are just as good. This book contains all four collections of short stories written by Hempel over the Leggi tutto
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