A Shout in the Ruins
Autor Kevin Powersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2019
Ce rămâne din noi atunci când structurile lumii noastre se prăbușesc sub greutatea violenței și a istoriei? În A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers ne transportă în Virginia natală, construind o punte narativă între brutalitatea Războiului Civil și ecourile sale persistente, resimțite aproape un secol mai târziu. Descoperim aici o explorare profundă a modului în care traumele colective și secretele de familie se întind peste generații, modelând destinele celor care trăiesc printre ruinele trecutului. Stilul lui Powers este unul de o precizie chirurgicală, dar infuzat de un lirism melancolic, trăsătură pe care am admirat-o și în debutul său multipremiat, The Yellow Birds. Dacă în acea lucrare autorul analiza dezorientarea soldatului modern în Irak, aici își îndreaptă privirea spre rădăcinile violenței americane, investigând prețul libertății și valoarea unei vieți omenești. Cititorul care a apreciat modul în care Nathan Harris explorează tranziția dificilă de la sclavie la libertate în The Sweetness of Water va găsi aici o sensibilitate similară în tratarea demnității umane — dar într-un context care pune accentul pe persistența memoriei și pe ceea ce supraviețuiește după ce tunurile tac. Romanul nu se ferește de asprimea faptelor, însă reușește să găsească momente de o frumusețe devastatoare în gesturile de compasiune care, în final, reprezintă singura noastră formă de rezistență în fața uitării.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147366781X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză densă, cu valențe poetice, ce refuză răspunsurile simple. A Shout in the Ruins este o meditație necesară despre istoria sudului american, oferind o perspectivă lucidă asupra modului în care trecutul ne locuiește. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai profundă a fragilității umane și a puterii de regenerare prin iubire, totul într-un format de o eleganță stilistică rară.
Despre autor
Kevin Powers este un scriitor american, poet și veteran al armatei SUA, cunoscut pentru modul în care transpune experiența frontului în literatură. Născut în Richmond, Virginia, a servit în Irak în perioada 2004-2005, experiență care a stat la baza romanului său de debut, The Yellow Birds, distins cu Guardian First Book Award și nominalizat la National Book Award. Formarea sa academică include un MFA în poezie la University of Texas, element care explică stilul său liric și atenția pentru cadența frazei. Prin opera sa, Powers explorează constant temele violenței, memoriei și datoriei morale.
Descriere
Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.
'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent.' Observer
'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times
'Achingly relevant.' Grazia
Recenzii
'Gorgeous, devastating... As in his first novel, The Yellow Birds, Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters... lays bare the tremendous suffering on which our country was founded and demands its acknowledgment. But Powers also offers love and grace in these pages, and a prayer for redemption.
A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present.
Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved.
The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent.
Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era.
A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one.
A daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history.
One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work.
This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it.
With a complex structure reminiscent of Faulkner, Powers adroitly weaves his narrative threads together with subtle connections that reinforce his themes of longing for coherence and the continuing effect of the past on the present. An impressive novel of slavery, destruction, and the arduous difficulties of love.
Achingly relevant.
Possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut . . . This is a fine, relevant novel from a notable author.
Contains moments that burn.
Suitably unvarnished, but not without moments of beauty or deep emotion. A Shout in the Ruins brushes aside myth and romanticism for a clear-eyed look at America.
Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth.
Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel.
A masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth.
This second novel, set in Powers's hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the grip of traumatic memory in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . A masterly meditation on our unbreakable connection to a world predicated on cyclical violence.
PRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRDS: Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book.
A masterpiece . . . a classic.
A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant.
Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art.
A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies.
Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary.
Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual.
Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling.
This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude.
Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre.
Nothing escapes the author's fanatical analysis and the observations are often startling and true