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Lettera a D. : storia di un amore

di André Gorz

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'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins André Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story - and all the more poignant because it's true.… (altro)
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Wer bleibt heute noch länger als 5 Jahre zusammen? Die Verfallszeit von Ehen tendiert immer weiter nach unten. Dieses Buch ist der Gegenbeweis einer rücksichts- und respektvollen, tiefen Liebe, die zwei ganze Leben hielt. Dabei konnte sich diese vor allem auch entwickeln, weil man sich den Verlockungen der modernen, beginnenden Konsumgesellschaft entzogen hatte. Die Konsumkritik in diesem Buch ist gerade heute, in Zeiten des Kapitalimus-Schocks, mehr als nachlesenswert. Dabei möchte ich diese Stelle über den größten Konsumfetisch unserer Zeit, das Auto, zitieren -' ein Gedanke, der mir so schon immer auf der Zunge lag:

"Nach 10 Jahren haben wir schließlich einen alten Austin erworben. Er hat uns nicht davon abgehalten, die individuelle Motorisierung für eine abscheuliche politische Wahl zu halten, die die Menschen zum aggressiven Wettbewerb dressiert, unter dem Vorwand, ihnen die Möglichkeit zu bieten, sich dem allgemeinen Los zu entziehen."

Etwas weiter dann sagt er zu seiner Frau: "Das erinnert mich daran, dass Du schon im Alter von sieben Jahren zu dem Schluss gekommen warst, die Liebe müsse, um wahr zu sein, das Geld verachten." Seine Frau hat ihm, André Gorz, der immer im morgen lebte, das Jetzt nahe gebracht, ihm das Glück des Jetzt geschenkt: "Du standest mitten im Leben, während ich es immer eilig hatte, mich an die nächste Aufgabe zu machen, als ob unser Leben erst später wirklich begänne."

Die erotische Komponente, die gemeinsame Lust der Körper wird in wenigen, klaren Sätzen beschrieben - schöner und gefühlvoller kann man dieses lebendige Einander-Atmen und Lieben nicht ausdrücken.

Eine wirkliche Liebe kann Anker sein, Ausgleich und frei von Kalkül. Sie ist dann einfach nur schön, frei von emotionalem Ärger und baut auf gegenseitiges Wachstum, Hilfe und Zuneigung. Sie fragt nicht nach Gewinn und Verlust, sondern gibt, um umso reicher zu empfangen. Und der gemeinsame Verlust des Lebens wird zu einer Hoffnung für eine Wiederkehr der eigenen, überreichen Liebe.
  Clu98 | Mar 31, 2023 |
" Tu vas avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans. Tu as rapetissé de six centimètres, tu ne pèses que quarante-cinq kilos et tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Je porte de nouveau au creux de ma poitrine un vide dévorant que seule comble la chaleur de ton corps contre le mien. " ( )
  biche1968 | Feb 15, 2022 |
"Tu viens juste d'avoir quatre-ving-deux ans. Tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Récemment je suis retombé amoureux de toi une nouvelle fois et je porte de nouveau en moi un vide dévorant que ne comble que ton corps serré contre le mien. La nuit je vois parfois la silhouette d'un homme qui, sur une route vide et dans un paysage désert, marche derrière un corbillard. Je suis cet homme. C'est toi que le corbillard emporte. Je ne veux pas assister à ta crémation ; je ne veux pas recevoir un bocal avec tes cendres. (...) je me réveille. Je guette ton souffle, ma main t'effleure. Nous aimerions chacun ne pas avoir à survivre à la mort de l'autre. Nous nous sommes souvent dit que si, par impossible, nous avions une seconde vie, nous voudrions la passer ensemble."

Une lettre d'une grande beauté, pleine d'humilité et d'une honnêteté émouvante (que devraient étudier certains exhibitionnistes de l'auto-fiction...).
Très belle lecture. ( )
  roulette.russe | Aug 19, 2017 |
Geschichte einer lebenslanger Beziehung, aus der Sicht des Philosophes der an seine kranke Frau, seine Unterstützerin und Freundin schreibt. Die Verbindung zwischen den beiden hat sich über die Jahre so entwickelt und verstärkt, da war eine einseitige Fortsetzung gar nicht denkbar. Als einzige Möglichkeit bot sich eine gemeinsame Beendigung des Lebens, und diesen Weg sind sie dann auch konsequent gegangen. ( )
  flydodofly | May 1, 2017 |
Letter to D. A love letter is a love letter. D. is Dorine, the loving partner, wife, of A., André. It is not a romantic love letter between young lovers, but a meditation on 58 years of marriage.

André Gorz (1923 – 2007) was a prominent French intellectual, a social philosopher, and journalist, founder of Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964.

In 2007, André and Dorine Gorz commited suicide. She was aged 82, he was 84 years old. They could not bear the idea that one of them would pass away first, leaving the other behind, alone.

Letter to D. A love letter reads like a short biography. In this ego document, Gorz looks back on the 60 years they spent together, from getting to know each other, to courtship, and a loving marriage that lasted for 58 years. They look back, mostly on the career of André Gorz, focussing on the high-lights. The booklet describes how they did things together, the key people they met and which important decisions they made in their lives.

It is not a political or scientific testament, although the emphasis on the technocriticism and ecology as the outcomes of their career, seems to give the book more significance, as if offereing the readers a suggestion or consideration for the future.

The English translation of Letter to D. A love letter is published with an afterword by the translator, Julie Rose, and "Notes for the Reader" listing all major personae listed in the book with a brief biography and main publications. Besides some of the most obvious, such as Sartre, Blanchot, Camus, De Beauvoir, Giles Deleuze, Marcuse, Merleau-Ponty, lLévi-Strauss and Benny Lévy, who played an important role in the formation and early philosophy of Gorz, there are references to robert laponche, Ivan Illich, Pierre-Félix Guattari, Jean Jaurès, Jacques Ellul, Günther Anders and Charles Apothéloz, who were key figures in his development towards a new future for political economy and political ecology.

Rather than a short biography or synopsis of a life, Letter to D. A love letter can be read as a coda: it might teach the reader what was the inevitable outcome of a life, it's compass needle pointing from Existentialism, to Marxism, then, to the New Left, and finally to technocriticism and political ecology.

Read the book as a fingerpost. ( )
1 vota edwinbcn | Feb 25, 2016 |
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'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins André Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story - and all the more poignant because it's true.

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