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Sto caricando le informazioni... La musica di una vita (2001)di Andreï Makine
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Deze eerste kennismaking met Andreï Makine was een tegenvaller. Ik vond dit boekje, eigenlijk niet meer dan een novelle, overdreven sentimenteel. Ik snap ook niet waarom Makine er een kaderverhaal van gemaakt heeft, alsof het tragische leven van muzikant Alexei Berg niet op zich kon staan. Alleen als een illustratie van het terreurbewind in de Sovjetunie heeft deze korte roman waarde. ( ) I love a thin book. The small problem with this one is that I immediately began to read it again. First, to find out at what point Makine seamlessly switched from the present (on a train) to the narrative of a life. But they had been recounted in a confusion fashion amid the sounds of a train arriving at a great, dark, frozen city. And that was doubtless how they had been lived through, in the disconcerting simplicity with whih broken lives ae lived.Second, to savour the rich layers of a deceptively simple tale. That I had been introduced to Alexander Zinoviev was the icing on the cake. Exquisite writing. Limpid, crystalline…lyrical descriptions that call Proust to mind. A well-crafted story: a pianist on the eve of his début in Stalinist Russia when his parents are “exposed” and arrested. He flees Moscow for the remote countryside where he eventually assumes the identity of a dead soldier (this is World War II). Most of what follows is the story of his life under this assumed identity, focusing on broken lives, the meaning of self, and the costs of our choices. The story is compelling and all-enveloping, the prose—as I suggested—is lyrical and captivating. Makine is, undeniably, gifted as a stylist. But as beautiful as the writing is, as powerful as the story is, somehow the writing and the story combined to produce a book that is inexplicably less than the sum of its parts. I enjoyed it; I will undoubtedly read more of his work. But somehow, and I’m honestly not quite sure how to explain it, ultimately I found the book left me wanting. At 106 pages, this is a very short novel, but a very powerful and haunting one - Makine is a master at finding emotion in small details. This book opens with a narrator who is forced to spend a snowy night at a crowded station in the far east of the Soviet Union. He stumbles on an old man at a piano going through the motions of playing but barely touching the keys. This man helps him find a way on to the train and describes his life story over the course of the train journey to Moscow. Like the first Makine book I read (The Life of an Unknown Man) this is a tale of survival told by an old man. This one's life as a concert pianist was curtailed when his family were caught up in one of Stalin's purges - he escapes from Moscow and steals the identity of a dead soldier, but is found out when his love of music betrays him. Makine's writing is luminous and elegiac throughout - I have yet to find anything by Makine that isn't worth reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiArcipelago [Einaudi] (38) Premi e riconoscimenti
A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II. Alexeï Berg's father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalin's reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed and proscribed, they have nonetheless, on the eve of Hitler's war, not yet been arrested. And young Alexeï himself, a budding classical pianist, has been allowed to continue his musical studies. His first solo concert is scheduled for May 24, 1941. Two days before the concert, on his way home from his final rehearsal, he sees his parents being arrested, taken from their Moscow apartment. Knowing his own arrest will not be far behind, Alexeï flees to the country house of his fiancée, where again betrayal awaits him. He flees, one step ahead of the dreaded secret police until, taking on the identity of a dead soldier, he enlists in the Soviet army. Thus begins his seemingly endless journey, through war and peace, until he lands, two decades later, in a snowbound train station in the Urals, where he relates his harrowing saga to the novel's narrator. An international bestseller, Music of a Life is, in the words of Le Monde, "extremely powerful . . . a gem." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.914Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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