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A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller de Polly Samson

A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller

Autor Polly Samson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2021

Ritmul acestui roman este unul lent și senzorial, amintind de căldura toridă a unei amiezi mediteraneene unde timpul pare să se dilate. Găsim în A Theatre for Dreamers o construcție stratificată, care nu se mulțumește doar cu evocarea nostalgică a unui paradis pierdut, ci sapă adânc sub suprafața sclipitoare a mării pentru a scoate la iveală fracturile unei comunități de artiști. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Polly Samson reușește să captureze spiritul boem al insulei Hydra din anii '60, transformând-o într-o scenă unde poeți, pictori și muzicieni — printre care și tânărul Leonard Cohen — își trăiesc viețile complicate.

Stilul are ceva din proza evocativă a lui Charmian Clift în Peel Me a Lotus, fără să fie o imitație — Samson aduce o privire critică, contemporană și subtil feministă asupra dinamicii de putere dintre genuri în mediul creativ. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Kindness sau Perfect Lives, autoarea explora fragilitatea relațiilor umane și secretele domestice, aici ea extinde această analiză asupra mitului artistului genial și a muzelor sale adesea sacrificate. Reținem finețea cu care sunt descrise experiențele senzoriale, de la mirosul de iasomie la sunetul unei chitări în noapte, elemente care ancorează meditația autoarei despre libertate și limitele artei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526600592
ISBN-10: 1526600595
Pagini: 348
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o evadare literară rafinată, departe de ritmul alert al vieții moderne. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei fascinați de istoria culturală a anilor '60 și de figura lui Leonard Cohen, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra vieții de pe Hydra. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a sacrificiilor din spatele creației, totul într-un decor grecesc pictural și autentic.

Despre autor

Polly Samson este o scriitoare britanică de prestigiu, membră a Royal Society of Literature, cunoscută pentru talentul de a îmbina observația psihologică acută cu un stil liric. Autoare a mai multor volume de proză scurtă și romane, printre care „The Kindness”, Samson s-a remarcat și în industria muzicală prin versurile scrise pentru trupa Pink Floyd și David Gilmour. Interesul său pentru comunitatea artistică de pe insula Hydra este documentat nu doar prin acest bestseller Sunday Times, ci și prin implicarea sa în reeditarea operelor scriitoarei Charmian Clift, demonstrând o afinitate profundă pentru spațiul cultural elen.

Descriere

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Delicious' Nigella Lawson'Clever and beguiling' Guardian'Sublime and immersive' Jojo MoyesErica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever.'A surefire summer hit ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality' Observer'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times'If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate' Andrew O'Hagan

Recenzii

Samson is an intensely sensual writer, conjuring up blue skies, the tang of wild herbs, the vivid splash of bougainvillea ... As good as a Greek holiday, and may be the closest we get this year
As dreamily nostalgic as Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat
Sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining
A thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness
A coming of age story set among a group of artists and poets, including Leonard Cohen, on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. She is so good at mentally indelible imagery
This well-crafted novel beautifully captures the texture of a halcyon age in which anything seems possible
Spellbinding . An immersive read, steeped in nostalgia. Samson's poetic prose is so evocative that, by the end, you find yourself googling those entrancing images of Hydra, 1960, just to wallow further in the poignancy of it all
The novel has a lightly worn heft to it, as it probes freedom and creativity . By the end of this enjoyable novel, which makes vivid an interesting moment and place, you discover people have paid a price - a heavy one - for that freedom in the sun
Samson recreates one heady summer there with impeccably ripening prose .This is a slow, deliberately languorous novel that mixes real-life figures with fictional counterparts. It is sunbaked, stewed in alcohol, and wonderfully gossipy
Intoxicating ... Highly accomplished ... A testament to Samson's transportive prose
A surefire summer hit ... Feels at once like a gift and an escape route ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality - just the book to bring light into these dark days
Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience
By the end the reader may be unable to decide whether Hydra enchanted or cursed those attracted by its primitive beauty, cheap rents and easy access to sex, drugs and performance poetry . A novel about the treatment of women by artistic men
Beautiful ... Perfect if you want to escape the drudgery of another lentil dinner and dream of 1960s Hydra with Leonard Cohen
It is a grand read and the prose falls translucently like the air ... Superb work and a delightful novel
Such a lyrical, elegant and beautifully told story

So vivid that you can see the sun-washed white houses and blue seas

I cannot tell you how much I needed this beautiful book to transport me back to 1960s Greece! Lyrical, sexy, tender and sad in places. Highly recommended

This radiant novel will transport you straight to Greece - a blessing at a time when most of us are stuck in our homes
Delicious
Dreamily nostalgic
About real people living in Hydra in 1960. Steeped in nostalgia that's both sad and beautiful. It's fascinating, immersive and so MOVING
Hands down the best book I've read all year. Luminous, immersive, gorgeous, profound
Her best work yet, so evocative and alive with the scents and colours of a Greek summer ... Among the best prose writers of her generation. The writing is just delicious
I was utterly entranced. It feels entirely true and effortless and compelling - in the way that all great novels do
If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate
A seductive story, suffused with nostalgia

This is a sheer delight - I've never been to Hydra but this book transports you and miraculously, you are there in 1960
A glorious novel
A beautifully written, evocative, inspiring novel. I devoured it
Polly Samson has created such a dazzling evocation of an era and its mindset. Here, the island of Hydra is a geographical place but a psychological one too, populated by beautiful and damaged characters who pull you down into its pages for another café gossip, another moonlit swim, another drink. This book is a bohemian idyll meticulously drawn, and unsparingly exposed. It is like going away to paradise, then coming back rather wiser. You don't read this book - you live it
A luscious seduction of a book
Samson's story sizzles with the Greek sun and seduction
Praise for The Kindness: 'An addictive, cleverly structured and intriguing relationship story of lies and flawed communication
Annoyingly close to perfection
A story that entices you to revel in its languid, beautifully written prose while demanding that you turn the page to discover the secrets it holds
Beautifully written, with twists engineered like a thriller
A book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Brilliant, tender and beautiful
Beautifully written and plotted with serpentine cunning, Samson's novel is what might be called a love story for adults: unsentimental, at times harsh, but ultimately uplifting
Gorgeously chilling . Samson seems to write in colours
Shining, poetic and sumptuous . Polly Samson is a writer of great insight and sensitivity
A richly sensory writer . A sumptuous, serious story
Lush, lyrical prose . The Kindness is to be read more than once, not merely to enjoy again the beauty of the writing and the considerable insights into human experience, but to test the earlier narrative with the knowledge of what is to come
Compelling . Atmospheric and vividly told, the book is a poignant examination of love, guilt, betrayal and the deception that can lie at the heart of every relationship
Family proves far from idyllic in this poetic, sensual story of betrayal and lies. Writer and lyricist Samson's prose is dazzlingly evocative, as she explores how relationships are rarely what they seem
Secrets and misunderstandings fuel Polly Samson's involving, melancholy and cleverly constructed second novel . This is a mature and haunting novel about love and loss that asks if we all, in the end, see what we want to see
This is elegant, witty writing, informed throughout by generosity and wise perceptiveness. Dealing with many kinds of love, and with misunderstanding, betrayal, grief and forgiveness, the novel dares to posit, ultimately, the possibility of redemption. It is a book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Intensely evocative . Samson treats this difficult subject with candour and compassion . The novel's effortlessness, its readability, sweeps everything in its wake . This is a book to relax into
Polly Samson's mastery of the English language is powerful and impressive
Fills the back of your eyes with light like an Aegean sky, and has that rare and lovely quality of making you nostalgic for something you never had ... It perfectly takes the reader into a different world. Which we could all do with
Fills the back of your eyes with light like an Aegean sky, and has that rare and lovely quality of making you nostalgic for something you never had ... It perfectly takes the reader into a different world. Which we could all do with

Caracteristici

Samson's previous novel,The Kindness, sold almost 30,000 copies and was described by India Knight as 'annoyingly close to perfection'. Her work has been shortlisted for prizes including the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Notă biografică

Polly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, translated into several languages and has been dramatised on BBC Radio 4. A Theatre for Dreamers debuted at number 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She has written lyrics for four Number One albums, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Most recently Polly Samson has written introductions to Muswell Press's 2021 reissues of Charmian Clift's Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus.pollysamson.com@PollySamson