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Sto caricando le informazioni... Death in Her Hands: A Novel (originale 2020; edizione 2021)di Ottessa Moshfegh (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Wow. I don't even know what to say. This story was different than anything else I've ever read. Very original and creative, but also depressing, nightmarish, and at times poignant. Beautifully written and also hauntingly urgent. I was compelled to keep turning pages because I was as obsessed as the main character was with figuring out the mystery. I surely won't forget this character. This has to be one of the worst books I’ve read in years. The narrative is mostly a stream of consciousness mental ramblings of a confused mind. The story is boring, tedious, and highly repetitive. The story begins with the narrator, Vesta, finding a note in the woods. She thinks a woman named Magda has been murdered, and without any clues, believes she can solve the murder. She makes up names of possible suspects that do not exist and follows clues she comes up with in her mind. Of course she never solves the murder, if in fact, there ever was one. The ending is absolutely horrible. Don’t waste your time with this book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Un ́anziana signora, rimasta da poco vedova, va a vivere in una casa isolata in mezzo al bosco. Una mattina, mentre porta a passeggio il cane, si imbatte in un bigliettino scritto a mano, che spicca sulla terra in una cornice di sassi disposti accuratamente. ́Si chiamava Magda. Nessuno scoprir© chi l ́ha uccisa. Non l ́ho uccisa io. Qui c ́©· il suo cadavere. ́ La protagonista rimane profondamente scossa dall ́episodio e non sa cosa pensare. Si ©· appena trasferita e conosce poche persone. Nella sua mente prima affiorano e poi si affollano, con crescente insistenza, varie congetture su chi sia questa Magda e su come sia andata incontro al suo tragico destino. Quando le sue supposizioni iniziano a trovare eco nel mondo reale, la curiosit© si trasforma in paura e il mistero della nota si fa oscuro e minaccioso. Contemporaneamente, a mano a mano che seguiamo le sue investigazioni, cresce anche una sottile dissonanza, la sensazione che la nostra narratrice abbia perso il contatto con la realt© . E mentre le tornano in mente con prepotenza i ricordi della sua vita passata e del marito, ci troviamo ad affrontare la possibilit© che, per capire Magda e la sua storia, ci sia una spiegazione pi©£ innocente, oppure una molto pi©£ sinistra, e che colpisca pi©£ vicino a casa. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It opens like a thriller, but quickly becomes more typically Moshfeghian. Vesta Gul is dealing with loneliness after being widowed and moving to a remote cabin in the woods, and rather than contacting the police after picking up what appears to be evidence of a murder, prints out a character writing outline from the internet and imaginatively creates characters and scenarios with its help, rather as one imagines Moshfegh doing, so all rather meta. As per course with Moshfegh, there is a heaping of misanthropy and disgust with bodies, but mostly its following the course of a mind losing touch with reality. We also get backstory on the narrator's marriage and come to appreciate the effect her emotionally abusive husband had on her life, which, along with her affection for her dog Charlie, work to make her a more sympathetic character.
As readers we pick up pretty quickly that Vesta's mind is going off into the woods itself, and by the final tense scene, a fine metaphor for allowing a dangerous predator into your life under the illusion that he's a loving companion, it's clear she's off her rocker entirely. It's a good conclusion to what is a meandering lesser Moshfegh.
There is one passage near the end of the book I'd be curious to know what emotion Moshfegh wrote it with; beginning in her typical style and mood, it veers off into most untypical hopefulness, and sentimentality. Surely she wrote it ironically? As in, you'd have to be insane to look at the universe this way? Probably. ( )