Donna Tartt
Autore di Dio di illusioni
Sull'Autore
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on December 23, 1963. She wrote her first novel while attending Bennington College, where she graduated in 1986. The novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. Her other works include The Little Friend, which won the WH Smith Literary Award in mostra altro 2003, and The Goldfinch, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for Best Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction. In 2014, Time named Tartt among their 100 Most Influential People. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Donna Tartt
The Ambush 14 copie
Tam-O'-Shanter 5 copie
GARDALINA 2 copie
1995 1 copia
The Gospel According to Larry 1 copia
This Much I Know 1 copia
Opere correlate
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Collaboratore — 34 copie, 1 recensione
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Tartt, Donna
- Nome legale
- Tartt, Donna Louise
- Altri nomi
- Tartt, Donna Louise (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1963-12-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Amerika
- Luogo di nascita
- Greenwood, Mississippi, Amerika
- Luogo di residenza
- Grenada, Mississippi, Amerika
- Istruzione
- Bennington College, Vermont, Amerika
- Attività lavorative
- auteur
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- WH Smith Literary Award 2003
- Breve biografia
- Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American author. Tartt's novels include The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi located in the Mississippi Delta, and raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her father, Don Tartt, was a successful local politician, while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary. At age thirteen, Tartt was published for the first time when a sonnet was included in a Mississippi literary review.
Tartt enrolled in the University of Mississippi in 1981, where her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. Following a recommendation from Morris, Barry Hannah, then an Ole Miss writer-in-residence, admitted the eighteen-year-old Tartt into his graduate course on the short story. "She was deeply literary," said Hannah. "Just a rare genius, really. A literary star."
Following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College in 1982. At Bennington, Tartt studied classics with Claude Fredericks.
In 2002, Tartt was reportedly working on a retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus for the Canongate Myth Series, a series of novellas in which ancient myths are reimagined and rewritten by contemporary authors. In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006.
Tartt is a convert to Catholicism and contributed an essay, "The spirit and writing in a secular world", to The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture (2000). In her essay Tartt wrote that "...faith is vital in the process of making my work and in the reasons I am driven to make it". However, Tartt also warned of the danger of writers who impose their beliefs or convictions on their novels. She wrote that writers should "shy from asserting those convictions directly in their work".
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Thriller - group of friends killed their friend in Name that Book (Ottobre 2020)
The Goldfinch SPOILERS ALLOWED in Girlybooks (Agosto 2014)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 43,408
- Popolarità
- #390
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1,512
- ISBN
- 323
- Lingue
- 25
- Preferito da
- 153
Teoricamente, Dio di illusioni avrebbe potuto diventare uno dei miei libri preferiti. Donna Tartt è una scrittrice che sa il fatto suo e non ho davvero niente da eccepire sul suo stile. Inoltre, la sua capacità di inglobare la dualità presente nella mitologia greca in un romanzo ambientato venti o trent'anni fa è ragguardevole.
Tuttavia, non posso proprio annoverarlo tra i miei libri preferiti: anzi, probabilmente finirà tra quei romanzi letti e presto dimenticati. Infatti, tutto quello che posso dire di aver provato leggendo Dio di illusioni è un enorme senso di vuoto. Un vuoto che, in parte, credo sia anche voluto, in quanto i giovani protagonisti e il loro insegnante di greco sono persone vuote. Al di là del genio e dell'amore per la bellezza che mostrano al mondo, infatti, sono persone vili ed egoiste, in grado di compiere qualunque nefandezza per mantenere la loro patina di luminosa moralità.
Ora, ho cerebralmente apprezzato tutto questo, ma il romanzo non è mai riuscito a coinvolgermi emotivamente – e non solo perché i personaggi sono sgradevoli. Per quanto mi riguarda, il senso di vuoto ha prevalso e ha fagocitato qualunque tipo di interesse da parte mia. Arrivata a metà romanzo circa, il mio unico desiderio era finirlo e passare ad altro.
Non mi ha coinvolto nemmeno il romanzo di formazione che scorre di pari passo con la trama del giallo. Droga, sesso e rock&roll: non posso proprio dire che sia stato coinvolgente, o anche solo originale, per quanto, lo ripeto, lo stile dell'autrice sia notevole – abbastanza da invogliarmi a leggere un altro dei suoi romanzi e a darle un'altra chance.… (altro)