Sinossi
La "scelta" che condizionerà per sempre la vita della giovane polacca Sophie è la più atroce che possa toccare a una donna: decidere quale dei suoi due figli vivrà. A imporgliela, la crudeltà sadica dei nazisti ad Auschwitz. La "colpa" della cattolica Sophie, invece, è quella di essere sopravvissuta: una colpa che condivide con Nathan Landau, un ebreo americano con cui, nella New York del 1947, intreccia una relazione furibonda. Ne è testimone Stingo, un giovane aspirante scrittore arrivato a New York dalla Virginia. Un libro profondamente tragico e allo stesso tempo estremamente vivace e colorato, straripante di ironia, che esplora le mille contraddizioni dell'animo umano. Postfazione di Alessandro Piperno.
- ISBN: 8804722959
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 678
- Data di uscita: 03-06-2020
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The world seems to be made of triangles… Of love triangles… And the narrator is an apex of one of such triangles… There is truth and there are lies – and we walk the tortuous paths of our lives in between. Perhaps I should say she indulged in certain evasions which at the time were necessary in order Leggi tutto
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«Η επιλογή της Σόφι» είναι ένα λογοτεχνικό υπέραριστούργημα, μια εκθαμβωτική απεικόνιση της λυρικής και ισχυρής γραφής, σε συνδυασμό με μια εξίσου εκθαμβωτική παρουσίαση μιας βαθιάς και συμπονετικής κατανόησης της ανθρώπινης καρδιάς, στα θεμέλια της οποίας θάβεται και στοιχειώνει την ύπαρξη, η αύρα Leggi tutto
William Styron's "Sophie's Choice" has to stand as one of the 20th century's great American novels. Based very loosely on his own experiences in the late 1940s in New York, Styron makes himself into a writer called Stingo who moves into a boarding house in Brooklyn, where he meets a Polish emigré na Leggi tutto
Sophie's Choice: William Styron's Novel of Choices, Hobson's and Otherwise This novel was chosen by members of On the Southern Literary Trail as a group read for September, 2014. Sophie's Choice, First Ed., First Prtg., William Styron, Random House, New York, New York, 1979 The gate to A
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