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Sto caricando le informazioni... Saturday (originale 2005; edizione 2005)di Ian McEwan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Good Right, I'm aware this makes me sound like a bit of a philistine, but I really enjoy reading about when someone's ordinary life is just going along nicely. If this whole novel was just about a man who played a heated game of squash, did a spot of surgery while listening to the Goldberg Variations, and came home and made a fish stew and thought about the specific ways in which he loved his family, I think I would have liked it the same amount. Fleishman Isn't In Trouble, if you like. Baxter as antagonist is compelling, but I do feel that he is the character that McEwan has the loosest grasp of. The rest of the main cast are fully themselves as soon as they walk in, which owes a lot to how much time Henry, the protagonist, spends thinking about them while we're knocking around in his head, and less to their actual actions on the page. We also get three entries into the "fictional media I wish was real list" with Theo's song and the poems by Daisy and John. Probably unwise of the audiobook narrator to have a crack at singing Theo's song though; it came out very bland. Henry Perowne es un hombre feliz. Es un reconocido neurocirujano y está casado con Rosalind, una abogada de un importante periódico. Ambos disfrutan su trabajo, se quieren y quieren a sus hijos, un prometedor músico y una joven poeta. Es sábado, 15 de febrero de 2003, el día de las grandes manifestaciones contra la guerra de Irak. Henry se despierta, va hacia la ventana de su dormitorio y ve un avión en llamas que sobrevuela Londres muy bajo. Henry teme un accidente terrible, un ataque terrorista. Más tarde, escuchando la radio, sabrá que se trata de un aterrizaje forzoso. Y Henry volverá a dormir, y hará el amor con su mujer, y se irá luego a su partida de squash semanal. Pero la visión nocturna no ha sido sino el presagio de la realidad azarosa que irrumpirá en la plácida burbuja de su vida tan armoniosa...
L’acuité du regard et le sens du détail dévastateur. La profondeur de la réflexion politique autant que philosophique. Why review a work of fiction for The Indexer? Chiefly because of the author’s use of several very different taxonomies covering neurosurgery, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, blues music, squash and fish. The cumulative effect of this detail is to emphasize that, despite much knowledge, training, experience and wide interests, Perowne is powerless to control unexpected horrors. He uses his brain to heal other brains, but he cannot fathom the workings of the mind. The complex taxonomy of neurosurgery is used twice: at the opening of the book and again near the end. The author could have maintained the reader’s interest and suspense with more simple language, but his careful research has produced a precision that gives a far stronger sense of authenticity, not only to medical indexers who will have little trouble following the procedures. Again with Alzheimer’s disease: the detail contrasts with the lively mother and swimming champion whom Perowne remembers when he visits her in a nursing home. As for Huntington’s chorea, the taxonomy is essential to explain the unusual behaviour of the man who threatens him; he is not the average street thug. The squash game is, again, described moment by moment and gives insight to Perowne’s character: he is desperately keen to win, coming close to an acrimonious dispute with his anaesthetist with whom he has an ideal professional relationship. Even the fishmonger’s slab is described in taxonomic detail which leads to Perowne’s contemplation of moral matters such as whether fish feel pain. Overall, however, Saturday has the feel of a neoliberal polemic gone badly wrong; if Tony Blair—who makes a fleeting personal appearance in the book, oozing insincerity—were to appoint a committee to produce a "novel for our time," the result would surely be something like this. [T]he lambent, stream-of-consciousness narrative that Mr. McEwan uses so adroitly in these pages. In fact, "Saturday" reads like an up-to-the-moment, post-9/11 variation on Woolf's classic 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway." We have learned to expect the worst from Ian McEwan. Since his debut collection of stories, First Love, Last Rites, his fiction has always dwelt at the heart of places we hope never to find ourselves in: the vacancies left in lives by the kidnapped child or the lost lover; the mined no-man's-land that follows extreme violence or sexual obsession. His subject has always been damage and the way the darkest events in a life will drain the rest of love. For McEwan, happiness has rarely gone unpunished. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiGallimard, Folio (4661) Otavan kirjasto (174) Panorama de Narrativas (615) Rainbow pocketboeken (950) È riassunto inHa uno studioPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Il 15 febbraio 2003, un sabato, Henry Perowne si sveglia nel cuore della notte in preda a un'inspiegabile euforia. Si avvicina alla finestra e osserva per qualche istante lo spettacolo della piazza su cui si affaccia casa sua. Improvvisamente si rende conto che il cielo notturno è attraversato da una scia di fuoco. Aerei in fiamme, terrorismo, fantasmi dell'Undici Settembre: è questo forse l'attacco su Londra che tutti aspettano, specialmente ora che il governo Blair appoggia l'invasione americana dell'Iraq? Henry Perowne è un uomo soddisfatto della propria vita. Neurochirurgo in un ospedale londinese, ama il suo lavoro, ama sua moglie, un avvocato affermato, ha due figli adorabili. Cosa può minacciare una felicità conquistata con tanta tenacia? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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