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A Month in Siena de Hisham Matar

A Month in Siena

Autor Hisham Matar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2019

Această biografie a unei experiențe vizuale revelează modul în care arta veche de secole poate deveni un instrument de cartografiere a doliului și a regăsirii de sine. A Month in Siena nu este doar un jurnal de călătorie, ci o confesiune despre momentul în care Hisham Matar a ales să se retragă în liniștea Toscanei după efortul emoțional de a scrie The Return. Credem că forța acestui text rezidă în onestitatea cu care autorul admite că a căutat consolare în panourile pictate de Duccio sau Ambrogio Lorenzetti, transformând galeriile muzeelor în spații de dialog interior.

Spre deosebire de primele sale romane, In the Country of Men sau Anatomy of a Disappearance, unde absența tatălui și traumele politice din Libia dominau structura narativă, aici Matar adoptă o perspectivă mai așezată, aproape meditativă. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe căutarea unor răspunsuri în istoria brutală a prezentului, în A Month in Siena el privește spre trecutul îndepărtat al secolului al XIV-lea pentru a înțelege fragilitatea condiției umane. În aceeași familie cu Siena de Joanna Cannon, volumul adaugă o dimensiune profund personală, transformând analiza istorică a artei într-o formă de vindecare.

Recomandăm această lectură pentru ritmul său lent, care invită la contemplare. Matar reușește să creeze o punte între privitor și obiectul de artă, demonstrând că picturile Școlii Sieneze nu sunt simple artefacte, ci oglinzi ale peisajului nostru interior. Este o carte subțire, dar densă în semnificații, unde fiecare reproducere color inclusă servește drept ancoră pentru o reflecție despre dragoste, pierdere și demnitatea tăcută a vieții.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593129135
ISBN-10: 059312913X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 133 x 200 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm A Month in Siena oricărui cititor care crede în puterea terapeutică a frumosului. Hisham Matar oferă o lecție despre cum să privești cu adevărat o pictură și cum să lași arta să îți vorbească despre propriile pierderi. Este un volum esențial pentru cei care apreciază memoriile scrise cu sensibilitate poetică, oferind un răgaz intelectual și emoțional într-o lume dominată de viteză.

Despre autor

Hisham Matar este un scriitor britanic de origine libiană, laureat al Premiului Pulitzer pentru autobiografie în 2017. Opera sa este profund marcată de temele exilului, memoriei și dispariției, elemente centrale în romanele sale de debut In the Country of Men și Anatomy of a Disappearance. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o precizie chirurgicală a limbajului dublată de o mare sensibilitate față de artă și istorie. În prezent locuiește la Londra, fiind considerat una dintre cele mai importante voci ale literaturii contemporane care explorează intersecția dintre personal și politic.

Descriere scurtă

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.

After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he'd had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer's life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape--current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude--and shed further light on the present world around us. Praise for A Month in Siena "As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph."--Peter Carey

Notă biografică

Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the memoir The Return, which also received the PEN/Jean Stein Award and other international prizes, and was selected as one of The New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won several awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was selected as one of the best books of the year by several publications, including the Chicago Tribune and The Guardian. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013. Born in New York City to Libyan parents, he spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and now divides his time between London and New York, where he teaches literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Recenzii

An intensely moving book, at once an affirmation of life's quiet dignities in the face of loss and a portrait of a city that comes to stand for all cities
This slim, beautifully produced book, sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss. Matar's prose is exquisitely measured and precise - not unlike one of the paintings from the Sienese school that he has admired for so many years
This book tells us much about the extraordinary power of art to inspire
What a jewel this is, driven by desire, grief, yearning loss, illuminated by hope, the kindness of strangers continually making tribute to the delicacy and grace of the Arab home the author lost so many years ago
A fluid series of meditations on the big questions of life, on love, faith, time and on the nature and purpose of art, the influence of architecture and, most important of all to this author, grief, mourning and memory
Mingles insightful and often moving art history with frank personal recollection in a way that reminds us of the communality we share not only with our contemporaries, but with all historical epochs. I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book
Hisham Matar is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material
What interests him in this art is the human knowledge the painter is trying to convey. The description is exact and graceful, as Matar's prose tends to be
A Month in Siena bears all the hallmarks of Matar's writing: it is exquisitely constructed and the use of language is precise and delicately nuanced without pretension. And there is a deceptive simplicity to his endeavour: to look at art. What emerges is an altogether more complex philosophical exploration of death, love, art, relationships and time
A deeply moving, engrossing book. Written in elegant, concise prose, it is a remarkable mediation on life, loss, mourning, exile, friendship and the power of art
Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak
A thing of beauty and wisdom
A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief
An exquisite, deeply affecting book
Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings
Bewitching . . . Meditating on art, history and the relationship between them, this is both a portrait of a city and an affirmation of life's quiet dignities in the face of loss