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Primo volume della tetralogia dello scrittore americano Edmund White, racconta la formazione di un adolescente in una famiglia di una normalità stravagante, negli Stati Uniti ingenui e moralisti degli anni Cinquanta. Il terrore degli altri, il senso di solitudine, il desiderio di appartenere al gruppo e di diventare popolare, l'indifferenza del padre, l'eccessivo attaccamento della madre, lo sforzo di capire se stesso. Sono queste le angosce e le aspirazioni che il giovane protagonista fronteggia, immergendosi nell'arte e nell'immaginazione. Universi che considera più decifrabili e abitabili, ma che non riescono a esentarlo dalla vita. Questa, infatti, incombe nella forma del desiderio erotico per gli uomini, costringendolo a combattere senso di colpa e vergogna, per arrivare, infine, a una più piena consapevolezza di sé.
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- Pagine: 260
- Data di uscita: 23-11-2017
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Elegant prose describing here a unique experience that hardly resembles my own. (The paramount reason I adore fiction!) In this, the truth of the matter. That there are all types, there are many stories. Sexuality is fixed only in our minds. This is no mix between "Salinger & Wilde." White is an Ame Leggi tutto
Edmund White portrays his younger life in a narcotic and poetic style. not exactly the most flattering self-portrait... the protagonist's travails are emotionally affecting yet he remains creepily distanced from the events and people in his own life - in particular from his equally creepy, distant,
Judging by this book, the average young boy can, before the age of 15, look forward to being approached for sex by: *A 12-year-old "straight" baby jock who's really into anal *Not one, but two separate camp counselors *A "special" student who wanders around with a constant erection, which everyone just Leggi tutto
What a disappointment. I thought I was an Edmund White fan but it turned out I just like the funny Edmund ( The Beautiful Room is Empty, My Lives ). There wasn’t the faintest impression of the wan attenuated ghost of any kind of humour in the half that I read. Not whatsoever. This was Serious Edmund, Leggi tutto
This is a hard book to rate, but I would give it a 3.5. It's said to be partly autobiographical and it does read like a memoir. However, the story is not linear and at times the timeline is confusing. Progressions of events are broken up by anecdotes that are sometimes told through narrative but are Leggi tutto
Achingly beautiful...and that's before the "corn-holing" even begins. White levels some serious stingers at you in this sucker, written with his customary flair for Proustian filigree. While evidence that a truly fucked up childhood can engender great Art, the beneficiary (me/you/etc) thereof is beh Leggi tutto
I read this for my lifetime challenge (1982). I picked "A Boy's Own Story" because it's also on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list. Unfortunately, it's another one from the list I didn't particularly enjoy. It is not a long book, but it felt long and was a chore to get through it. The Leggi tutto
‘Historia de un chico’ es una novela que constituye una auténtica institución en la historia de la literatura gay estadounidense: que por fin haya sido traducida al castellano es un auténtico motivo de celebración y una excusa perfecta para acercarse fácilmente a la literatura de Edmund White, uno d Leggi tutto
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