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Caligrafía de los sueños di Juan Marsé
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Caligrafía de los sueños (edizione 2011)

di Juan Marsé

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When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death. In Ringo's Barcelona, life endures in the shadow of civil war - the Fascist regime oversees all. Inspired by glimpses of Hollywood glamour, he finds his own form of resistance, escaping into myths of his own making, recast as a heroic cowboy or an intrepid big-game hunter. But when he finds himself inveigled as a go-between into an affair far beyond his juvenile comprehension, he is forced to turn from his interior world and unleash his talent for invention on the lives of others. And all the while he is left to wonder - what could have happened to Señora Mir that day to send her so far beyond the edge of reason? The Calligraphy of Dreams is a luminescent coming-of-age novel with a devilish twist. Reminiscent of Atonement and The Go-between, it is the culmination of the life's work of one of the greatest living Spanish men of letters.… (altro)
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En esa taberna del barrio de Gracia, es testigo de la historia de amor entre Vicky Mir y el señor Alonso: ella, una mujer entrada en años, masajista de profesión, ingenua y enamoradiza; él, un cincuentón apuesto que empezó frecuentando a la mujer para curarse de una lesión en el pie y ha acabado instalándose en su casa. Allí viven junto a Violeta, la hija de la señora Mir, hasta que sucede algo inesperado: un domingo por la tarde, Vicky se echa a las vías de un tranvía intentando un suicidio imposible y patético, mientras el señor Alonso desaparece para no volver. Lo único que queda de él es una carta que prometió escribir y que Vicky estará esperando y deseando hasta la locura, mientras Violeta mueve sus espléndidas caderas por el barrio, hosca e indiferente a los halagos.
  Natt90 | Mar 1, 2023 |
Ringo is an adolescent boy, growing up in the politically charged era just after the 2nd world war, in Barcelona. The town has many people on the cusp of poverty, including his family. In addition, the aftermath of the Spanish civil war means various draconian laws and arrests. Barcelona also has to cope with the question of Catalonian independence. This is the backdrop to the story, but it's also about vibrant, almost magical realist, characters.

Ringo himself is growing up with grand delusional ambitions to be a concert pianist, until he carelessly loses a finger as a jewellery apprentice. He often lives in a fantasy world in his head, which he readily enthralls his friend with, when spinning his stories. His hormones, like many adolescent boys, are also in full swing, and he seems to fall in love - or rather lust - in almost every chapter.

The fulcrum of the story, and how it begins, is via Senora Mir, whose daughter Ringo has a huge crush on. She melodramatically attempts suicide by lying across tram tracks - that haven't seen a tram pass them in years. The reason is that her lover has spurned her. Later on it seems as if he's still interested and will send her some letter of import very soon. Every day she goes to the local bar to check if it's arrived.

One day, by chance, Ringo meets up with this lover, quite a charlatan, who gives Ringo the letter to deliver.

SPOILER WARNING: Ringo loses the letter, and is haunted by this mistake for half the book. Eventually he writes an incredibly ham-fisted attempt at a substitute when Senora Mir falls ill, he assumes partly of a broken heart. But the letter was never meant for her, but her teenage daughter, that this man had fallen in love with. This raises many questions that the book doesn't answer. Is this lover deluded too in how much of a relationship he had with this daughter? How much did Senora Mir know about this? Was she trying to cover for or protect her daughter? It's hard to tell, but what's clear is that there's a general mood of resigned desparation to everything in the novel. And the whole idea of fantasy imposed on reality pervades the novel, again making it verge on magic realism at times.

This is a much richer novel than it first appears. It's not just a well observed teen boy coming of age novel. It's not just a delicate portrait of a turbulent time in Barcelona history. There is also a deep undercurrent of how loosely we can be connected to reality, driven by the troubled, unhappy lives we can lead. ( )
  RachDan | Jun 24, 2018 |
Barcelone au temps de la dictature franquiste. Après la seconde guerre mondiale. Un jeune adolescent cherche son chemin dans la vie, un accident le privera d'un index et de ses rêves de carrière musicale. Mais ce sont surtout ses rêveries que nous conte Marsé et à travers elles, la vie désabusée mais joyeuse d'une population, qui malgré les vicissitudes, reste solidaire et debout.

Marsé ne nous parle pas dans un style direct mais nous emmène par les tribulations de son jeune protagoniste à découvrir par nous-mêmes le non-dit et le caché de ces existences.

C'est doux et amer, mais avec un soleil qui darde les coeurs malgré tout. Avec beaucoup de désillusions également. Une belle lecture, mais pas au point de devenir un coup de coeur pour cet auteur espagnol que je ne connaissais pas. ( )
  Millepages | Jan 31, 2016 |
Los personajes carecen de la fuerza y el caracter de otras novelas de Juan Marsé. El protagonista es demasiado pasivo, se dedica a observa, ni siquiera opina sobre lo que ve o escucha. Creo que la evocación y una melancolía hacia el barrio y los personajes que lo habitan salvan la novela. Sinceramente esperaba algo más de ese título que me atrajo al comprar el libro.
  fvernalte | Nov 11, 2012 |
A mediados de los cuarenta, Ringo es un chaval de quince años que pasa las horas muertas en el bar de la señora Paquita, moviendo los dedos sobre la mesa, como si repasara las lecciones de piano que su familia ya no puede pagarle. En esa taberna del barrio de Gracia, es testigo de la historia de amor entre Vicky Mir y el señor Alonso: ella, una mujer entrada en años y en carnes, masajista de profesión, ingenua y enamoradiza; él, un cincuentón apuesto que empezó frecuentando a la mujer para curarse de una lesión en el pie y ha acabado instalándose en su casa. Allí viven junto a Violeta, la hija de la señora Mir, hasta que sucede algo inesperado: un domingo por la tarde, Vicky se echa a las vías de un tranvía intentando un suicidio imposible y patético, mientras el señor Alonso desaparece para no volver. Lo único que queda de él es una carta que prometió escribir y que Vicky estará esperando y deseando hasta la locura, mientras Violeta mueve sus espléndidas caderas por el barrio, hosca e indiferente a los halagos.

La vida entera discurre por el bar de la señora Paquita y bajo la mirada de Ringo, que ahora escucha, lee, y finalmente empezará a escribir las palabras de lo que será su primer relato. Un encuentro casual con el señor Alonso ligará para siempre la historia de los amantes con la de Ringo y con la triste caligrafía de toda una generación que alimentó sus sueños en los cines de periferia y en las calles grises de una ciudad donde el futuro parecía algo improbable. ( )
  pepviv | Feb 9, 2012 |
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When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death. In Ringo's Barcelona, life endures in the shadow of civil war - the Fascist regime oversees all. Inspired by glimpses of Hollywood glamour, he finds his own form of resistance, escaping into myths of his own making, recast as a heroic cowboy or an intrepid big-game hunter. But when he finds himself inveigled as a go-between into an affair far beyond his juvenile comprehension, he is forced to turn from his interior world and unleash his talent for invention on the lives of others. And all the while he is left to wonder - what could have happened to Señora Mir that day to send her so far beyond the edge of reason? The Calligraphy of Dreams is a luminescent coming-of-age novel with a devilish twist. Reminiscent of Atonement and The Go-between, it is the culmination of the life's work of one of the greatest living Spanish men of letters.

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