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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Twin (2006)di Gerbrand Bakker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Al piano di sopra di una casa da contadini nel nord dell’Olanda giace attendendo la morte il padre del cinquantenne Helmer che da più di trent’anni ha perso il gemello continuando però a vivere nella duplicità di un legame che non si è mai spezzato del tutto e paradossalmente ritroverà la sua vera vita solo quando alla fine si sentirà finalmente solo. C’è una solitudine malinconica fatta di scelte di vita mai fatte, occasioni perdute, rimpianti, risentimenti e c’è una solitudine buona in cui l’uomo trova finalmente se stesso e sa quello che vuole. Mi sembra un po’ questa in estrema sintesi la ragione di un racconto che all’inizio sembra anche noioso perso nella routine di una quotidianità fredda e arida come il silenzio che sta al piano di sopra dove il padre sta morendo poi si anima con immagini quasi tenere come gli agnellini appena nati che annunciano la primavera e il calore di una vita che sta nascendo e non è solo quella della natura ma di un uomo che trova finalmente la sua strada. ( )
This is a novel of great brilliance and subtlety. It contains scenes of enveloping psychological force but is open-ended, its extraordinary last section suggesting that fulfilment of long-standing aspirations can arrive, unanticipated, in late middle-age. Human dramas are offset by landscape and animals feelingly delineated, and David Colmer's translation is distinguished by an exceptional (and crucial) ear for dialogue. There are certain stories that both ask for and reward rereading, and not according to the Great Work of Art notion that demanding, ambitious works like Ulysses and Hamlet sustain multiple engagements over a lifetime. I mean instead that more modest, deceptively simple works tend to reveal their many smaller gems of wisdom and beauty on second, third and even 20th readings. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead – her luminous novel about an old Kansas preacher’s relationship to his young son and to the changing world around them – and Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River – a pitch-perfect short story about a damaged young man’s effort at a restorative fishing trip in northern Michigan – come to mind. Gerbrand Bakker’s debut novel, The Twin, while not as accomplished as either of these works, has a similar feel to it. The winner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is unapologetically slow-paced, patient in its revelations, almost ritualistic in its descriptions of quotidian things, melancholic and meditative in its narrative voice and capable, at its best moments, of bringing off remarkably moving and tense passages concerning a middle-aged Dutchman’s fraught relationship to his aged father, a relationship permanently and tragically forged in fracture by the accidental death of the Dutchman’s twin brother – the always preferred son – when they were teenagers. But these men are so silent in the assessment of their own lives, and this is such a sad and bleak story, that no matter how delicate the touch and how subtle the undercurrents, it makes for a sad, bleak read. Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother’s role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer’s twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin ultimately poses difficult questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into one’s own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)839.3137Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Dutch Dutch fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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