

Sinossi
Oreo è il classico biscotto americano a due colori: nero fuori, bianco dentro. Ma è anche il soprannome di Christine, l'eroina di questo romanzo, nata dall'improbabile (e presto naufragato) matrimonio tra una madre nera e un padre ebreo. È per ritrovare le tracce di quest'ultimo, sparito senza spiegazioni anni prima, che l'adolescente Christine lascia Philadelphia alla volta di New York. Seguendo una labile scia di indizi, affronterà prova dopo prova una metropoli popolata da personaggi grotteschi - nani e truffatori, ruffiani e fattucchiere - tenendo a bada ogni pericolo con le uniche armi che ha: il cervello affilato e la lingua svelta (senza disdegnare un tocco di arti marziali). Originalissima rivisitazione del mito di Teseo in chiave pop e fumettistica, "Oreo" è un libro che, come i migliori romanzi postmoderni, interroga e sfida a ogni pagina l'intelligenza del lettore. Con il suo spirito femminista e ribelle, la sua garbata satira del meticciato culturale e l'inesauribile vena linguistica, che mescola con disinvoltura lo yiddish e il vernacolo dei neri, i giochi di parole e i puri e semplici neologismi, questa perla ritrovata degli anni Settanta conserva intatta la comicità sofisticata e la fantasia straripante di un'opera letteraria fuori da qualsiasi schema.
- ISBN: 8869982025
- Casa Editrice: Sur
- Pagine: 252
Recensioni
Reissued in 2015 from New Directions, this early-seventies punnilinguistic mistresspiece deserves a broader readership. An anarchic comedic romp, abounding in ambidextrous wordplay, mixing black and Jewish slang with technical and mathematical language, this novel is a brassy performance, sadomasoch Leggi tutto
Pros: 1. Half-black, half-Jewish female protagonist who's brilliant, tough, and empowered. 2. Vocabulary-expanding; full of language games and puns. 3. Lots of insane, almost magical realist stuff happens, but since the plot is anchored by parallels to the story of Theseus and the Minotaur it never
A picaresque novel from the 70's with a Black Jewish female protagonist who roams the streets of New York sporting a cane while seeking her father (much like the mythological Theseus)? Yup, journalist, writer an comedy author Fran Ross has created a wild, experimental mixture of genres and text form Leggi tutto
Google wasn’t around when Oreo was first published in 1974. You are hit with Greek mythology and Yiddish right away and just the look of the pages of Fran Ross’s novel about an Afro-Jewish girl’s quest to find her white father can discourage or intimidate. Oreo , by an African-American writer who die Leggi tutto
This book was too smart for me. I was left feeling pretty "lowly" for not "getting it". I enjoyed the parts that clicked but most of the book was chock full of fanciful language that I didn't have the time to bother looking up each sentence (just to feel included in the joke). I completely understan Leggi tutto
Fran Ross' Oreo is an incredible novel that lays the common overlooked magic of racial and cultural mixings, assimilation and multiple identity bare. Its humor, irony, satire and sarcasm has an incendiary, sociological truth, as the best stand-up comedy used to do, and sometimes still does. The fact Leggi tutto
I loved it when I first read it June 2015, loved it more this time. I laughed so loudly as I read it that my family kept thinking I'd broken my toe or something. Not just a great book. It's one of a kind.
My favorite people are women and my favorite women are smart women and my favorite smart women are funny smart women, and Fran Ross is that and more. Her only novel, OREO, came out in 1974 and was forgotten almost immediately. Though it and some spec scripts got her out to Hollywood to write for an
A hell of a lot of fun but also, as it should be, cheekily dealing with a lot of not-fun, fucked up shit about power and race and gender and all the rest. But if puns don't float your proverbial, and if your patience for playing is fraying, don't bother
This is one of the smartest, funniest, most original books I've ever read. Wildly inventive; it reminded me more of Kurt Vonnegut than any other contemporary African American woman's writing.
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