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Sto caricando le informazioni... American Delirium: A Novel (edizione 2021)di Betina González (Autore), Heather Cleary (Traduttore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I gave this novel 50 pages, then returned it to the library. Like Queen Victoria, I was not amused. Because I didn't finish it, it gets no stars! La estructura del relato es interesante. Cada capítulo está dividido en tres partes: la primera cuenta la historia de Vik que se ve amenazado por la intrusión de una extraña mujer en su casa, la segunda parte es el relato en primera persona de una mujer madura que es de alguna manera el nexo entre todos los personajes de la historia. Por último, nos encontramos con Berenice, una niña abandonada por su madre. Es una mezcla de ciencia ficción con novela romántica. Es interesante la manera en la que las historias van conformando un todo. Una novela original y atrapante.
González, who lives in Argentina, uses absurdity to show us that there is the thinnest of lines between utopia and dystopia, all without ever naming any real-world correlates (aside from the novel’s pointed title and an even more pointed epigraph from Baudrillard about “the fiction of America”). Ultimately, this is a novel about the fictions—those myths about age, race, family, nationality, sexuality, health—that we tell ourselves. And how, as one of the characters says, “The destruction of a harmful system is an act of love.” An uncategorizable novel that manages to be both zany and profound. This unsettling yet erudite translated work by Argentinian writer González weaves a story about a small Midwestern town upended by residents-turned-dissenters and menaced by a frenzied deer population, with a spotlight trained on three main characters caught in the middle of it all.... Behind this baffling turn of events runs veiled social commentary on capitalism and the progressive mentality replete with astute observations on aging, death, and human nature that becomes most poignant when seen through Beryl’s eyes. The mystery of the hallucinogen and the lives impacted by it coalesce into a profound and much-needed tale full of hope and kindness. Argentinian González anatomizes in her skillful English-language debut an American community’s pursuit of enlightenment and the violence and madness left in its wake. The novel takes place in a moribund, near-future unnamed U.S. city where only the university and the natural history museum have survived a devastating depression.... The story lines gradually converge around the prevalence of a hallucinogenic Coloma plant called albaria that “closes your eyes and sets you down in a ray of light where time doesn’t exist.” This has the makings of a zany psychedelic romp, but instead the delirium is marvelously controlled and administered in doses just potent enough to ease patient readers into this off-kilter world. González’s distorted utopian vision is a memorable trip.
"From award-winning novelist Betina Gonzlez, a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen, forcing its citizens to confront the secrets of their past and rely on unexpected relationships"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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