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Sto caricando le informazioni... W, o Il ricordo d'infanzia (originale 1975; edizione 1991)di Georges Perec, Dianella Selvatico Estense
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Not Perec's strongest in my opinion. I enjoy his style enough that I finished it, but the allegory was a little too heavy handed for me. Usually I find Perec light hearted and playful, which was not completely absent in W, but I felt like I was being asked to be a little too serious, too concerned. Ah well, I think I'll move on to his Exeter Text next. ( ) Not Perec's strongest in my opinion. I enjoy his style enough that I finished it, but the allegory was a little too heavy handed for me. Usually I find Perec light hearted and playful, which was not completely absent in W, but I felt like I was being asked to be a little too serious, too concerned. Ah well, I think I'll move on to his Exeter Text next. > PEREC. GEORGES. W ou le souvenir d'enfance. Paris: Denoël, 1975. Pp. 220. Se reporter au compte rendu de Sonja G. STARY In: The French Review, Vol. 49, No. 5 (Apr., 1976), pp. 829-830… ; (en ligne), URL : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W1yxxfieDjuJsfIupAFvZhuv8oqA8UOs/view?usp=shari... Perec explores his memories of childhood and his reaction to the loss of his parents, both Jewish immigrants from Poland, during World War II. His father died in 1940 from wounds he received fighting in the French army; his mother was deported by the Nazis in early 1944 and is presumed to have been murdered at Auschwitz. Perec was evacuated from Paris to the Dauphiné by the Red Cross in 1942, where he attended a Catholic boarding school and later went to live with relatives. The book has two alternating and apparently independent narratives. The even-numbered chapters form a fairly conventional memoir narrative, in which Perec examines memories, photographs, and texts he has written about himself earlier and tries to resolve them with what he can learn from family members and others who were around at the time. In many cases he finds that his memories don't square with the facts: he has appropriated to himself interesting or significant events that actually happened to other people, or he has shifted things around in time. Meanwhile, the odd-numbered chapters, printed in italics, tell the (imaginary) story of a deserter from a French colonial war, now living in Germany under the false name Gaspard Winckler, who is asked to go to the island of W in Tierra del Fuego in search of the real Gaspard Winckler, missing after a shipwreck. As the narrator tells us more and more about W, we start to realise what a strange and disturbing place it is, in which the whole of life is centred around meaningless sporting competitions conducted under an arbitrary, changeable and undisclosed code of rules. Eventually we work out nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Guaranteed to send shock waves through the literary community, Perec's W tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing the author's wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del Fuego, governed by the thrall of the Olympic "ideal," where losers are tortured and winners held in temporary idolatry." "As the reader soon discovers, W is a place where "it is more important to be lucky than to be deserving," and "you have to fight to live ... [with] no recourse, no mercy, no salvation, not even any hope that time will sort things out." Here, sport is glorified and victors honored, but athletes are vilified, losers executed, stealing encouraged, rape common, and violence a fact of life." "Perec's interpretive vision of the Holocaust forces us to ask the question central to our time: How did this happen before our eyes? How did we look at those "shells of skin and bone, ashen faced, with their backs permanently bent, their eyes full of panic and their suppurating sores?" How did all of this happen, not on W, but before millions of spectators, some horrified, some cheering, some in-different, but all present at the games watching the events of that grisly arena?"--BOOK JACKET. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.914Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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