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Sto caricando le informazioni... La langue d'Altmann (originale 1994; edizione 2014)di Brian Evenson, Claro (Traduction)
Informazioni sull'operaAltmann's Tongue di Brian Evenson (1994)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Written by the son of a professor I work with. A very interesting and dark set of tales. I've read a few, but want to begin again and read the whole thing. ( ) A collection of Evenson's early enigmatic, sparse and disturbing short stories plus a novella with an interesting take on the crime genre. Linked through an exploration of violence, stripped of all moral cues & explanation, these stories confront, disturb and provoke in equal measure. In this, his first book, he successfully experiments with attitudes to violence and morality. It is not a comfortable read but it is powerful. The shorter ones have the most impact but my favourite is the deeply disturbing tale of a twisted father/daughter reunion, compelling even whilst being frustrating. Being his first book it is an uneven collection but nothing is bad, to be honest some are just too odd. The novella sucessfuly twists the crime genre dealing with the conflicting statements surrounding the murder of a policeman and dragging the protaginst into uncertainty and conspiracy. This book also has a fascinating afterward as Evenson eloquently describes not only the themes in this novel but also the impact of this book: on himself, his job, his family and his religion (Mormonism). Not only highlighting the issue of freedom of speech, but also how a good person should and can deal with evil. All in all highly recommended. Since I am not the best reviewer here's a sample tale (not gratuitous but there is a murder) http://www.webdelsol.com/evenson/be-at.htm nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"There are times when the sources of an imaginative act, of the specific conditions of mood and temperament we believe assemble it, seem as much to the point as the thing itself, as the creation - in this case, the stories and the novella - that are their result. Amazingly, or perhaps expectably, Brian Evenson is a devout Mormon, an unequivocal believer, a bishop in the Church. In this vein, it seems necessary to say that Evenson is married, that he is the father of two little girls, and that he conducts classes as a faculty member at Brigham Young University. In other words, Evenson appears, in every particular, to be the very destroyer of what - in this most shocking book - he is instead the maker of. It could be claimed that Evenson's unimprovable devotion to The Book of Mormon, his text of perfect revelation, invoked in him something infernally human - the artist, never first but forever a figure made visible, made audible, only by being elsewhere, only by being in solitude. Altmann's Tongue is a theater of solitudes. Its moods are chilling, its temperament is cold, and the episodes that construe its twenty-five short fictions and the long fiction, The Sanza Affair, are, in every aspect, brutal - as if brutality was the medium of our relations with one another and the instrument of our will to record the ultimate expression of ourselves. In Evenson's world, all moral and all social categories dissolve. Only diction and syntax count - and they count only insofar as they might succeed in freeing utterance to enact itself at its most cruel. For reasons the language knows, there are events - bystanders slain for passing along wrong directions to motorists in leisurely pursuit of dark errands, fathers interring children without bothering to walk a little distance to inform the mothers, mothers seeking to reintroduce sons to the incomparable solace of the maternal fold - that issue out of certain densities of feeling, out of certain intensities of action. It may be that a prefix or a suffix sets everything in motion - and that all fate is lingual and, in these terms, logical. Meanwhile, we have a young American writer and his fierce debut. What he has dared to set down is strange, very strange - and very strangely fascinating."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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