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"The Wedding of Zein unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married -- Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein married at last? Zein's particular role in the life of the village has been the peculiar one of falling in love again and again with girls who promptly marry another man. It would be unheard of for him to get married himself. In Tayeb Salih's wonderfully agile telling, the story of how this miracle came to be is one that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community: tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional. In the end, however, Zein's ridiculous good luck augurs an ultimate reconciliation, opening a prospect of a world made whole"--Page 4 of cover.… (altro)
Dello stesso autore, sudanese (1928-2009), abbiamo salutato l’anno scorso la riedizione di La stagione della migrazione a Nord, un capolavoro della letteratura araba. Arriva adesso in italiano questa gustosa novella (del 1969), che su un tono di commedia diverte e coinvolge il lettore, offrendo uno spaccato di umanità varia, quella che ruota attorno ad al-Zain. Questi è uno sgorbio d’uomo, ma che pare avere un penchant mistico e che fa innamorare di sé una ragazza dopo l’altra, salvo poi cedere il passo ad altri pretendenti. Per questo, l’annuncio che infine al-Zain davvero convola a nozze è una notizia di prim’ordine per tutto il villaggio. Da non sottovalutare i due racconti in appendice, specialmente quello sullo “sviluppo” e la storia politica nazionale visti da un villaggio sul fiume. ( )
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To Julie & Zainab
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Were you to come to our village as a tourist, it is likely, my son, that you would not stay long.
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"The Wedding of Zein unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married -- Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein married at last? Zein's particular role in the life of the village has been the peculiar one of falling in love again and again with girls who promptly marry another man. It would be unheard of for him to get married himself. In Tayeb Salih's wonderfully agile telling, the story of how this miracle came to be is one that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community: tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional. In the end, however, Zein's ridiculous good luck augurs an ultimate reconciliation, opening a prospect of a world made whole"--Page 4 of cover.
Da non sottovalutare i due racconti in appendice, specialmente quello sullo “sviluppo” e la storia politica nazionale visti da un villaggio sul fiume. ( )